I have finally published Western Sunset, available worldwide at Amazon US, and Amazon UK as well as the many other interna

This holiday season, I am publishing a new book, Transfer. And for the first time, my book will be available in most formats and platforms, not exclusively through Amazon. So, whether you read on a Kindle, or a Barnes & Noble Nook, use an iPad or ereaders from Kobo or Sony or others, you should be able to get it, anywhere in the world! So here’s the teaser for Transfer:

Just saw the new film The Snowman, based on the book by Jo Nesbø featuring the alcoholic detective Harry Hole. Much talent went into it with not a lot to show for it, and that’s all I’ll say as a review. HOWEVER, the actress Jamie Clayton has a small role as Edda, the IT or systems analyst for the police department. There’s a scene at the beginning where she lectures the police on a new gadget for them to carry, and some scenes later where she supplies Harry with much-needed information.

Along with solemn thoughts due to the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I've wanted to do more, especially for at-risk and abused youths and the families with transgender children. If you've read my books, you know that many of them feature teenage characters.

After too long, I have a new book—Day in the Sun. It's set in Hollywood of the 1930s and has taken a mountain of research, but it's been a real labor of love, something I've wanted to write about for quite awhile.

"Day in the Sun" at Amazon.com

There’s a very interesting site called Quora (quora dot com), billed as “A place to share knowledge and better understand the world”.*

Questions are asked by anyone and answered by anyone, but “best’ answers are upvoted to the top. You’re liable to find internationally known scientists, authors, and politicians responding—a lot of teachers, too—as well as regular folks. Have a question about the Battle of Yorktown? It might be answered by an American History professor at Yale . Have a question about guns? The top answer might come from a Marine gunnery instructor, or a police officer, and so on.

But some of the answers take unusual spins; as with the one below, which may comfort some and infuriate others, but it may be of interest to BCTS authors and readers.

The general question, open to anyone to answer, was “Which novel changed your life?”

This response is interesting in terms of self-perception of gender.

Happy New Year to you all!

It's shaping up to be a perilous one, so we all must support each other, be compassionate and kind, but not let evil and madness go unchecked.

And sit with cats on our laps more often ...

Karin

(I see I've already been scooped!)

Yes, Port of Arrival is finally published, the follow-up to Port of Departure. Here are the links to the Amazon pages and, well, I think I'm going to pour myself a glass of wine and relax for a little bit ...

If you've wondered about female characters in fairy tales, or read Nancy Drew--or just the development of gender roles in literature, here are two articles for those interested in female/feminine arche/stereotypes (whew!):

Karin Bishop Books It's live now, and the links all seem to work. I have yet to see if the mobile version is working, though. If you try out the website, please let me know what you think, especially any difficulties or criticisms, so I can take 'em back to the designer to fix. (I already think he's got some of the text too big but maybe it's my display).

To all who have purchased my new book A Necessary Fiction (and thank you for that!)--

The conversion process duplicated some chapters' text and cut part of one. This was caught by Allison Z and thank you-thank you! I double-checked and it has been published again. The title page of the correct book reads: KBB2152

In addition to my new BCTS story Angry Diary that's currently posted, I'm publishing some ebooks on Amazon. The first up is In Concert, which was first here at BCTS. One of two others from here will be published in the next week; in my time here readers have expressed their desire for Kindle copies of some of my BCTS titles (and I'm always open to suggestions!). As always, please-please-please post reviews on Amazon for any of my books, and any of the BCTS authors whose books you have (and we love stars!)

The happiest and healthiest Christmas, New Year's, and any other holidays you wish to celebrate to all the authors and readers at BCTS!

Karin

I have published my twentieth ebook Salvations at Amazon. Like all my books, it's now only available in the Kindle format. It was originally workshopped here on BCTS as "Saving Us" and has been edited and revised a bit, but at the risk of decreasing my sales, if you have "Saving Us" you've pretty much got it already.

To everyone--a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year to all of you!