What a great weekend at Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis. After Orlando, Pride seemed more important this year, somber in remembrance, and also deliberately joyful in a refusal to be suppressed. It felt important to be seen, to be proud, to celebrate and laugh and cheer as well as mourn. To show that no death, not one, not forty-nine, can erase or suppress the move to equality. There were 132 groups marching in the parade, … Read more

I’m delighted to say that the print, hold-it-in-your-hands version of the first book Tracefinder: Contact is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other paper book retailers. I can’t wait to get my author copies and actually have that cover in print, and to be able to include it at my table at Minneapolis Pride next weekend. The edits for book 2, Tracefinder: Changes, are going well. I hope to have a release date … Read more

I’m really excited to share the cover, and blurb, for Book 2 in the Tracefinder paranormal mystery series, Tracefinder: Changes. On the first book cover – Tracefinder: Contact – I showed you Nick, who is hot and dark and gorgeous. I hadn’t planned for just one guy per cover – I usually do both – but two things happened. First, I wrote Brian as a sweet, big, not muscled and not built, young guy with … Read more

Memorial Day in the US is a time to remember those who died while serving in the military. It also serves a very important function, in reminding us that our troops are not just “boots on the ground” or “armed forces” or “a military presence.” They are real people who put their lives on the line, in protection of their homeland and defense of innocents. They are individuals with hopes and dreams. Some are friends, … Read more

This is the decade in which, for many Americans, transgender people are moving from an unknown “T” in an alphabet-label, to real faces, real names, and real stories. As that happens, opinions, hearts, minds, and laws are changing. Visibility matters, just as it has for all of LGBTQ. Consider Ireland in the spring of 2015, in the months before the vote on equal marriage for same-sex couples. Sure, there were many good public information campaigns. … Read more

I’m blogging on Love Bytes Reviews today, talking about beta readers – what they do, who they are, and how authors and readers connect. Check it out (The link is in the bar below the picture.) Beta Readers – by Kaje Harper

To the mothers who love their children unconditionally, not thinking they are perfect, but supporting and accepting them even when they’re not. To the people who managed to become adults without that kind of supportive mom in their lives. May the images of this day for others not hurt too much. May you have someone else in your life who gives you unconditional love. To those whose Mother’s Day is bittersweet with loss. My two … Read more

When I released this book on audio, I didn’t expect it to ever be discounted. Audible.com sets the price for audio books, and the ebook from which it was created has been free for years on Amazon. However… it turns out that Audible has now whispersync’d this title, without changing the free price of the ebook. That means you can now download the ebook on Amazon at no charge (http://www.amazon.com/Into-Deep-Waters-Kaje-Harper-ebook/dp/B00D8GLHYG/) and then add the audio … Read more

Today I have a guest blog post up on Love Bytes Reviews where I talk about showing character emotions in stories, and why my favorite book may not be yours. Check it out – http://lovebytesreviews.com/2016/04/15/showing-emotions-by-kaje-harper/

One of the biggest threats to the LGBTQ community is the ignorance of those who are outside it. And even some within it. Gender-spectum individuals – trans and genderfluid and agender and bigender and other non-cis folk – are at the highest risk. They are represented in the public mind by a very small number of individuals (and not always well-represented.) I saw a post recently from a random guy who claimed that he only … Read more