From a red-carpet Halloween costume to the fireworks of New Year's, Karin Kallmaker is adding a holiday layer to her literary cake with short stories...

From a red-carpet Halloween costume to the fireworks of New Year's, Karin Kallmaker is adding a holiday layer to her literary cake with short stories inspired by her classics and recent novels. It's a baker's dozen buffet of pure holiday deliciousness.

Join her for a Car Pool family table Thanksgiving and Paperback Romance small town concert. A Warming Trend North Pole wonderland and Maybe Next Time Hawaiian Christmas. A reality show holiday bake-off with Wild Things. And Simply the Best ever New Year's Day. Every story will wrap you in family, friendships, and romance, all with a holiday bow on top.

Karin Kallmaker's delightful and moving short stories have won Lambda Literary and Golden Crown awards and are sure to have you falling in love with her characters all over again.
Contents include:

1. Making Up for Lost Time: December - Cookies and Kisses


2. Warming Trend / My Lady Lipstick: January - Mona Lisa


3. Captain of Industry: February - Extraordinary Thing


4. Simply the Best: March - All That and a Milkshake


5. Simply the Best: April - Reflections


6. Wild Things: May - Having Faith


7. Painted Moon: June - Living Canvas


8. Roller Coaster: July - Heartline Roll


9. Maybe Next Time: August - Turtles, Adagio


10. Above Temptation: September - Kindling


11. Because I Said So: October - The M-Word


12. Car Pool: November - The World Heals at the Kitchen Table


13. Paperback Romance: December - Merely Players


14. Notes: "And Now for the Sprinkles on Top"

Readers won't want to miss the original Frosting on the Cake and Frosting on the Cake Volume 2: Second Helpings.


Author: Karin Kallmaker
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 06/17/2025
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781642474879

About the Author
Kallmaker, Karin: -

Karin Kallmaker has always written about lesbians and love and isn't likely to change. Her thirty+ novels include Painted Moon, Captain of Industry, and Maybe Next Time. She's also written more than five dozen short stories and novellas. She has won three Lambda Literary Awards and is a Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer.

When she's not writing books she's thinking about books, enjoying life in the San Francisco Bay Area, or embarking on new adventures by plane, train, or automobile. Learn more at kallmaker.com or search social media or favorite book sites for "Kallmaker"--there's only one.