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

Guest Post: Sedonia Guillone

We're thrilled to have the lovely Sedonia Guillone visiting us here at Lust Bites today. Please make her feel welcome as she introduces us to her Men of Tokyo.A bit about Sedonia:Birthplace: Norwood, MassachusettsAstrological signs: Taurus, Rooster in Chinese zodiacFavourite films of all time: Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, SanjuroFavourite music: anything by GacktFoods: olives, pizza, Thai curryAnd I�m

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