Start Here: She Gets the Girl
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Welcome! If you like reading about women who love other women, adventure, action, a little sci-fi/fantasy, you’re in the right place.
She Gets the Girl hosts serialized fiction and other microfiction works. The first series, The Elevator, will debut Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
Why is it called She Gets the Girl?
Because I can’t tell you how many times I have been let down by mainstream entertainment who flirt with us queer ladies, teasing us with a rainbow happily ever after and not delivering. (I’m looking right at you Kissing Jessica Stein, Ammonite, Disobedience, Rizzoli & Isles.)
This is a home for fiction where the main character will get the girl. It may not be immediate, there may be ups and downs, and I can’t promise in all instances that she’ll keep the girl. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The First Series: The Elevator
When a no-nonsense HR executive gets trapped in an elevator with a charming musician, their biggest worry is getting out—until they do, and realize the world has completely changed since the moment they stepped inside.
Free Subscribers receive two chapters of The Elevator per week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Paid Subscribers receive two chapters per week plus:
Subscriber only posts, including behind the scenes of writing a serial fiction novella
Author/community chat and Q&A
A chapter-by-chapter playlist, where each track embodies the essence of the unfolding narrative (or the cognitive state of the author when it was written 😉)
Who am I?
Just a girl who’s loved writing since she was a kid but waited until a corporate layoff in her 40s to actually do something about it.
I’m Karen. I live in Florida with my wife and 3 dachshunds. I’m a recovering HR executive now experimenting with the next professional chapter. A non-fiction addict, I love any book on American history, Florida natural history, productivity, and mental health.
Some of my favorite fiction novels of the past few years are: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger, and Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. I’ve also become a fan of Octavia Butler (Kindred, The Parable series).
I love Jaws, Taylor Dayne, Chappell Roan, Yacht Rock, The Yellowjackets, and National Lampoon’s Vacation.
My thoughts on AI are still emerging, but I do believe in the power and soul of human created art. That said, there is no AI here (except for Grammarly helping to edit). Even the artwork. Artists deserve to get paid. And there are just some things we shouldn’t outsource to robots.