Mike Karpa
@mikekarpa
Gay writer of genre-challenged novels with queer casts including Kirkus Best of 2022 thriller “Criminals.”
@mumblers.bsky.social is live at #CastroValleyPride. Very friendly crowd. And repeat customers from last year! Some even want sequels… #Boosky
#Booksky It’s been fun talkjng to #TrippRobbins about his adventures set in the #StarCitizen universe.
#Booksky #Baycon the Shattered Star is the debut of #SkylarROstram. It’s an #IndieBookAwards finalist!
#Booksky At #BayCon introducing our work with #ClaraWard and #RichardHMoon in air-conditioned comfort in Santa Clara.
#Booksky Come join @mumblers.bsky.social at #BayCon at the Santa Clara Marriot today through July 6. All our specfic books are here, plus many more.
#Booksky I think we’re skipping a couple book fairs this month, but will be back in July for #BayCon and #CastroValleyPride unpacking and packing books.
#Booksky @mumblers.bsky.social sold out of three books at #BABF and nearly a fourth. Which means…time to print more books!!
#Booksky Had a great time selling @mumblers.bsky.social novels at the #Babf with authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith #SusieHara #AlisonHart (pictured) and family. Great spot under an oak tree. Huge crowd!
#booksky Black mixed-race family saga “The In-between Sky” by #AlisonHart continues the story of Alison’s heritage. www.amazon.com/between-Sky-...
One baby hummingbird was born, grew up and flew away from here this year.
Had a wonderful time at the Sacramento Book Fair. The crowd was huge, the event super well run, the venue comfortable.
#booksky Wonderful time reading in Stockton’s litcrawl with @mumblers.bsky.social authors #MelindaMaxwell-Smith and #AlisonHart (on left). I read for #JanStites and #RaudseppaJaan (who couldn’t make it, alas). Pic is the reading before us: poets Charrelle Jackson, Anara Guard and Myntube Tiaterrice
I’m thinking about going to this #AlisonHart reading. Apart from the event itself, it’s also on #WaverlyPlace, home to the oldest Chinese temple in the US.
#booksky #MumblersPress Had a great time at Stockton’s Miracle Mile Literary Crawl. What a fun, chill crowd. So well organized by #TuleburgPress.
I agreed with every sign, even if I didn’t have one. On the train I heard about another. “Come on, cholesterol! Do your job!”
Having retired as a teacher of Japanese>Eng #translation, I am clearing out #dictionaries. At this point, they are just decorations. Scary thing: I am keeping 29 (29!) for sentimental reasons.
Being old, I remember the days when Rush Limbaugh celebrated the deaths of gay men, playing Dionne Warwick singing “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” Trump gave him the presidential medal of honor.