Winner of Frost Fair!

Thank you to everyone who participated in my Chilly Chat last week!I put the names of all the commenters into The Hat - and it picked.......Congratulations Jeremy. Please let me know if you would like either a download (which you can have very soon, as soon as I get the codes) or a hard copy, which will take a couple of months.And enjoy!

Love in a Cold Climate

I learn stuff when I write. Which is one of the reasons I love to write. I knew that the Thames froze over pretty often in years gone by but had never sat and wondered how and why. When I set out to write a book about the last one, held in 1814, I needed to find this stuff out.This is the science bit so please concentrate.Aside from global warming, there's a good reason why the Thames doesn't

Halloween Giveaway!

by Madeline MooreYikes! Is that picture scary or what? Well, Halloween is coming, dear Lust Bites readers, which means two things.1) Time to get your freak on! 2) Time for the Lust Bites Halloween Giveaway!This year, we are giving away another impressive batch of erotica books, penned by some of the best writers of erotica working today. That's right, penned by Lusties!

Coming Attractions

by ErastesWell Autumn is halfway through and we soon will be doing strange things like bobbing for apples and carving... erm. pumpkins.This week on Lust Bites:On Monday Kate Pearce will be sharing a nice long helping of her sizzling book - Simply Sinful.On Wednesday Madeline Moore will be announcing our Grand Hallowe'en Competition. There will be some great prizes (as always!) so make sure you

(Fe)male Order Shopping-Harris' List of Covent Garden Ladies

Want to write a best-seller with plenty of sex? Well perhaps you might be lucky if you follow in the footsteps of Samuel Derrick.Who was he, I hear you ask? Well, Mr Derrick was Irish and a bit of a con-man if history is to be believed. He used to pretend to be a member of the Irish aristocracy but in reality he was a draper's apprentice, a bad actor, and a failed poet. He was determined to

A Bluffer's Guide to... Gay Historicals

Along the lines of the other Bluffer's Guides I thought I'd do a Gay Historical 1-0-1 today.Top facts:* Sadly not yet published by Black Lace. I live in hope as they do have m/m/f plotlines.* Covers. Usually pretty naff.(with the exception of those below)* Committed Lusties, Erastes, Madelynne Ellis - hell, just about all of us!In a nutshell* There's not enough of it, for a start.* Some Gay

Coming Attractions, pa pa pa pa pa pa........

by ErastesI would sing the Pearl and Dean theme tune here, but I doubt anyone here is ancient enough to understand the reference or remember Pearl and Dean at all. *feels old*So, in my best gravelly "Trailer Man Voice" I am happy to announce my very first coming attractions. THIS WEEK....There's a reason for the movie references, of course, so excuse the clumsy segue.On Monday Madeline Moore

Smut slot: A Friday Smutty art lesson

Chiaroscuro (Italian for clear-dark) is a term in art for a contrast between light and dark. The term is usually applied to bold contrasts affecting a whole composition, but is also more technically used by artists and art historians for the use of effects representing contrasts of light, not necessarily strong, to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human

Gentlemen Behaving Badly: "Speak Its Name"

SPEAK ITS NAME is out now!What is this Speak Its Name of which you speak?Call it SiN for short. It's a three-novella anthology of gay historical romance. Published by Linden Bay Romance and containing stories from Lee Rowan, Charlie Cochrane and Erastes.Three novellas? Sounds like a bargain!It is! Aftermath from Charlie Cochrane is a tale of 1920's Oxford Undergraduates, Gentleman's Gentleman by

How do you solve a problem like smegma?

Ok � that�s not a particularly sexy title. I admit it. But it is a valid point when one writes historical fiction. Writing bed-scenes when your writhing couple didn�t own a bath or shower and wouldn't do for several hundred years could be a turn-off for the reader.These days we are all Germ Free Adolescents, washing our hair every day and brushing our teeth whilst wearing scented panty liners