Please pop over to Jessewave’s Blog (Wave is a great supporter of gay fiction) and read the great interview with our very own Alex Beecroft. Jessewave is going to run a series of these spotlights, so I’ll let you know when a relevant one comes up! ALEX BEECROFT IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Don Juan and Men stories of lust and seduction Edited by Kyle Stone (ManLoveRomance Books) Deadline: 30th September 2008 The story of Don Juan is a popular one and has appeared in many guises throughout literary and musical history. The Spanish Don with his single minded drive to seduce, conquer and desert those who fall [...]
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Thanks to T J Pennington for the heads up on this one: Spotted on Diane Duane’s LJ and the Guardian- Random House are inserting a morality clause into their contracts for children’s and YA authors: If you act or behave in a way which damages your reputation as a person suitable to work with or [...]
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By T J Pennington Were it possible, I would have posted this response on Erotica Readers & Writers Association. Regrettably, while Jean Roberta’s’ editorial on women who write male/male romance was there, there was no reply button, and thus no way to discuss or debate her statements…or beliefs that she stated as fact. So I [...]
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There is so much lesbian historical fiction out there that we are going to start reviewing it from today. However, we have literally ONE reviewer, so don’t expect an equal weight. If you would like to review lesbian historicals please let me know on erastes AT erastes DOT com. I also need to work out [...]
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Vienna Dolorosa by Mykola Dementiuk is a full-length historical novel set in Vienna, Austria, in an inner city hotel managed by a transvestite and doubling as a brothel for men who like boys dressed up as girls. The entire book takes place during a one-day time period — March 12, 1938, the day Hitler “invades” [...]
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I am compiling this list with a ridiculous level of reservation. Most historical fiction reviews I see tend to ponder and dwell on historical accuracy and I admit , quite bluntly, that this is NOT why I read historical novels. Hell, it isn’t why I read ANY fiction – full stop! I read stories set [...]
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In 1998 Teesside small press Mudfog published Marion Husband’s first collection of short stories, entitled Three Little Deaths. This was followed by a run of short story and poetic publishing successes. In 2005 Accent Press published her first novel The Boy I Love. (Reviewed on this site HERE) Its sequel Paper Moon was published in [...]
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Set in occupied Poland during World War II, this novel is based on the true story of Stefan K., a Polish boy who, at 16, fell in love with a German soldier. When their liaison was discovered by the Gestapo, the teen was tortured and sentenced to a labour camp, eventually escaping during the chaotic [...]
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Ah, gay books. Where would we be without a volume of Mary Renault or Alan Hollinghurst in our hands, or the next Gordon Merrick or Patrick Gale on our reading list? It’s wonderful to be able to read the reviews on this site, but sometimes the comments section isn’t long enough for a really detailed [...]
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So the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation is open again for its competitions for short fiction, play-writing and novels. These are the only online awards (that I know of – would be happy to be corrected) for Gay Historical Fiction and as such deserves attention from this blog. However, I was mildly confused by the [...]
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