Writing Calin's debut book, the
young adult novel Between You & Me, was published in 2012 by
Bloomsbury. It earned positive reviews in
Kirkus and ''Publishers' Weekly.'' and was selected for the
American Library Associations’ 2013 Rainbow Book List of quality books with authentic LGBT content.
Audiobook narration As an audiobook narrator, Calin has earned an
Audie Award nomination for full cast recording of
Hans Christian Andersen’s
Fairytales, and an Audie win for
Sadie by
Courtney Summers. Calin has earned
AudioFile magazine's
Earphones Awards for a variety of titles, including books by
Garth Nix,
Jennifer Robson, and
Mary Calvi's
Dear George, Dear Mary, for which she was featured on
CBS in a behind-the-scenes look at the making of audiobooks. Her performance in
Sophie McKenzie’s
Close My Eyes received a
Publishers Weekly Starred Review and made their 2013 Listen-Up Awards for Audiobooks of the year. She led an effects-full production of
Teeth in the Mist by
Dawn Kurtagich for Hachette Audio which was named by
Paste Magazine as one of the 19 Best Audiobooks of 2019 So Far. Three titles she narrated in 2019 were selected for Yalsa's round up of Amazing Audiobooks. 2024 included a
Society of Voice Arts and Sciences award nomination for Outstanding Audiobook Narration – Fiction – Best Voiceover.
Film Calin wrote and produced the
independent drama film
A Million Happy Nows with her company Perfect Features. The film played primarily the
LGBT festival circuit for the 2017 season, screening at more than 50 festivals including the
Mardi Gras Film Festival,
Frameline Film Festival, the
Palm Beach International Film Festival and
Outfest. The film won Outfest's Audience Award for Best First U.S. Narrative Feature. It also won
Curve Magazine's poll to screen at the first
ClexaCon film festival in Las Vegas in 2017, and came away with the award for Best Feature. Research for the film led to Calin's advocacy for the Women's Brain Project and she was their guest at the International Forum on Women's Brain and Mental Health in Zurich, Switzerland in 2019. ==References==