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About Sofi Keren

CBR14 Participant

Sofi Keren lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is the author of two sapphic romance novels, False Starts & Artichoke Hearts and Painted Over.

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Hollow Heart cover art: A skull in a suit, with pink lighting inside the done, looks out at the viewer with lights in his eye sockets

You Had Me At “Queer Monster Love Story”

Hollow Heart by Paul Allor

September 7, 2022 by Sofi Keren 3 Comments

I was excited to have my novel nominated for an Indiana Authors Award this year. Since I didn’t win this round, of course I had to pick up a copy of the winning book in the Genre Fiction category, a graphic novel titled Hollow Heart. I was thrilled to see it described as “A queer monster love story about the choices we make between giving our loved ones what they want and giving them what we think they need.” El is a test subject in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction Tagged With: Indiana, LGBTQ, Paul Allor

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Science Fiction · Tags: Indiana, LGBTQ, Paul Allor ·
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Book cover: Stuntwomen: the Untold Hollywood Story. 6 images of women flying planes, riding motorcycles, and leaping in dangerous situations

No Wigs on the Men: Women Defying Death on Film

Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story by Mollie Gregory

September 4, 2022 by Sofi Keren Leave a Comment

A stuntwoman’s job is to jump out of a helicopter, drive a speeding motorcycle on winding roads, leap from one train car to another, and punch the bad guys in the face. She doubles actors in movies and on TV, quietly taking on the riskiest moves, saving the leading lady from potential injury. She’s behind the scenes, but the key to an impressive action sequence. Stuntwomen traces the history of women doing stunts from the early silent serial films of the 1910’s and 1920’s through […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Hollywood, Mollie Gregory, stunt women

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Hollywood, Mollie Gregory, stunt women ·
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Deaf Utopia book cover: Nyle DiMarco smiling

Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco

August 28, 2022 by Sofi Keren Leave a Comment

I’ll admit it. I watched almost every single season of America’s Next Top Model. Mostly I loved seeing how the photos turned out in the end, tuning out the manipulated drama that took up half of each episode until the photo shoots began. Nyle DiMarco, the show’s first Deaf contestant, won season 22 (yeah, there were that many seasons and more). Much has been written about the problematic aspects of the show, and one chapter of his does touch on an episode where the producers […]

https://cannonballread.com/2022/08/deaf-utopia-sofi-keren/

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, LGBTQ author, Nyle DiMarco

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, LGBTQ author, Nyle DiMarco ·
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Cover art: A Lady for a Duke. A woman and a man embrace, wearing period clothing

A Trans-Austen Historical Romance

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

August 25, 2022 by Sofi Keren 5 Comments

I love reading Austen and the Brontë sisters. Jane Eyre is a favorite, even if Mr. Rochester is the worst and definitely killed his wife. But reading period romances used to remind me, in the back of my mind, that those stories weren’t written for people like me. It wouldn’t have been historically accurate for two queer people to get together and not be shunned by society, right? Or…maybe not. Gentleman Jack has been a breath of fresh air, with a main character based on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alexis Hall, historical romance, LGBTQ romance

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alexis Hall, historical romance, LGBTQ romance ·
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One of Us Is Dead book cover: a woman holding scissors behind her back

Your Hair Stylist Knows All Your Secrets

One of Us Is Dead by Jeneva Rose

July 2, 2022 by Sofi Keren 1 Comment

You may have seen Jeneva Rose on TikTok, where she went viral by posting a video about defending her husband in court after he was accused of murdering his mistress. The story even hit The Daily Mail. But…that was just the plot of her novel The Perfect Marriage. When I walked into my local Barnes & Noble and saw her new novel, One of Us Is Dead, I had to buy it. Not just because I appreciate a good whodunit, but because I had been […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Jeneva Rose

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Jeneva Rose ·
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Two female news anchors pose at a desk

Good Morning Romance

The AM Show by T.B. Markinson and Miranda MacLeod

June 14, 2022 by Sofi Keren Leave a Comment

I love a book club. It’s so rare outside of them that we’re all reading the same books at the same time, and talking about books is one of my favorite things. At one point I was in three different book clubs, trying to juggle all the books and their deadlines. That may have been a tad excessive. We moved to virtual discussions during the lockdown phase of the pandemic, but real discussions were harder to have over Zoom, and only one of the book […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: LGBTQ, sapphic romance, T.B. Markinson and Miranda MacLeod

Sofi Keren's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: LGBTQ, sapphic romance, T.B. Markinson and Miranda MacLeod ·
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