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

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

A bluffer's guide to... Historicals

by Olivia KnightWith the beautiful new Black Lace covers came three new lines: paranormals, contemporaries, and historicals. Last Wednesday, Madeline Moore introduced contemporaries; the week before, I did the same for paranormals. Today, historicals are in the spotlight.Top facts:� Black Lace line: historicals� Colour: red� Committed Lusties, past and present: Deanna Ashford, Kristina Lloyd,

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