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		<title>Review: When Love Walked In by Charlie Cochet (short story)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Shannon is a Private Investigator dealing with case after case of missing persons and infidelity. None of which inspire warm, fuzzy feelings during the week of Valentine’s Day. Then again, Bruce isn’t exactly a fuzzy feelings kind of guy, which suits him just fine. He doesn’t need anyone anyhow, only his cat, Mittens. That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4634&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Stone by Stone: A Novel by Stevie Woods</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/02/06/review-stone-by-stone-a-novel-by-stevie-woods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>speakitsname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can two men build a relationship when one must tear down each stone that the other has worked so hard to build? In the year 1535, after a misspent youth, Brother Mark is a hardworking Benedictine monk toiling as a stonemason at Tavistock Abbey. There he finds himself irrevocably drawn to one of the men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4627&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Almost an Equal by Heather Boyd</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/02/04/review-almost-an-equal-by-heather-boyd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Nathan Shern, Duke of Byworth&#8217;s, empty sham of a marriage is threatened by a fellow duke he is naturally aggrieved. He cannot allow the potentially damaging contents of his wife&#8217;s diary to reveal the depths of their estrangement because exposure of his secret dalliances with other men would taint his innocent children&#8217;s lives. Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4613&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Achilles a Love Story by Byrne Fone</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/02/02/review-achilles-a-love-story-by-byrne-fone-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the author of American Revolution: A Gay Novel. The story of the war at Troy, as Homer&#8217;s readers all knew, was not only a tale of battles and exemplary heroism, but also a a story of love between men&#8211;of the devotion of Achilles, unrivalled hero, terrible warrior, and so it is said in legend, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4619&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Wishing Cup by JM Gryffyn</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/31/review-the-wishing-cup-by-jm-gryffyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orphaned as a boy and brought up by the crusty, disapproving Edward Collins, Dr. David Jameson may not know much about love, but he makes up for it with an encyclopedic knowledge of Egyptian history and language. Too bad his job as linguist for a team excavating in the Valley of the Kings puts him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4607&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Valiant One by Jay E Hughes</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/29/review-the-valiant-one-by-jay-e-hughes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>essayel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ragnar, a hardened Scottish soldier, is indifferent to English rule of his homeland until he falls in love with Gylis McIvoy, a fellow Scotsman. They have a brief and passionate affair, but circumstances tear them apart permanently. Ragnar swears vengeance, and soon becomes a freedom fighter modeled on the recently captured and executed William Wallace. Ragnar manages to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4596&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/27/review-my-dearest-holmes-by-rohase-piercy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;&#8230; The accounts of these cases are too bound up with events in my personal life which, although they may provide a plausible commentary to much of my dealings with Mr Sherlock Holmes, can never be made public while he or I remain alive &#8230;&#8217; Although Dr Watson is known for recording some sixty of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=3441&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Quatrefoil by James Barr</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/25/review-quatrefoil-by-james-barr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phillip Froelich and Tim Danelaw are irresistibly drawn to each other. Both are in every obvious respect what is generally considered masculine, and live and work in a completely normal man&#8217;s social and professional world. Other men respect and admire their courage and ability and even their physical prowess. Women are very much attracted to both of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4553&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Cross Bones (short story anthology)</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/23/review-cross-bones-short-story-anthology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>essayel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy, me proud beauty, shiver me timbers! I ask ye to sail me jollyboat on the high seas, lubber, but will ye dare to accept? On offer be a pirate&#8217;s life full of danger and risk, and not just to yer neck, but to yer very virgin heart! There&#8217;s many a bodice to be ripped&#8211;or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4527&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The German by Lee Thomas</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/21/review-the-german-by-lee-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a new thrilling novel. 1944 &#8211; Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4496&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Junction X by Erastes</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/19/review-junction-x-by-erastes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in the very English suburbia of 1962 where everyone has tidy front gardens and lace curtains, Junction X is the story of Edward Johnson, who ostensibly has the perfect life: A beautiful house, a great job, an attractive wife and two well-mannered children. The trouble is he’s been lying to himself all of his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4498&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Butterfly Dream by Dave Lara and Bud Gundy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 6 years old, long before he discovers that he is gay, Banat Frantz learns that being Jewish in Hitler’s Germany is a bewildering crime for which he and his family must pay. Fire and loathing greet his emerging consciousness and a resourceful child begins to learn survival skills. Violently forced from their home and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4469&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Broken by Stella Notecor</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/13/review-the-broken-by-stella-notecor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James guards his secrets. Uncertain as to whom he can trust with his family’s secrets, James Bradford has lived a lonely life since becoming Baron of Riverside. When he meets an equally enigmatic violinist named Sheamus, he begins to wonder if he’s found someone with whom he can share everything. Sheamus guards his body. No [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4356&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Psychic and the Sleuth by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/09/review-the-psychic-and-the-sleuth-by-bonnie-dee-and-summer-devon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trusting a psychic flash might solve a mystery…and lead to love. Inspector Robert Court should have felt a sense of justice when a rag-and-bones man went to the gallows for murdering his cousin. Yet something has never felt right about the investigation. Robert’s relentless quest for the truth has annoyed his superintendent, landing him lowly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4290&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Maroon: Donal agus Jimmy by P.D. Singer</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/05/review-maroon-donal-agus-jimmy-by-p-d-singer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best jobs in 1911 Belfast are in the shipyards, but Donal Gallagher&#8217;s pay packet at Harland and Wolff doesn&#8217;t stretch far enough. He needs to find someone to share his rented room; fellow ship-builder Jimmy Healy&#8217;s bright smile and need for lodgings inspire Donal to offer. But how will he sleep, lying scant feet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4326&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Its Name&#8217;s Best of the Year 2011</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/03/speak-its-names-best-of-the-year-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a bumper year for gay historicals, so much so that I&#8217;ve struggled to keep up with the reviews, and if it wasn&#8217;t for my small band of helpers, and Gerry Burnie who lets me crosspost some of his reviews I&#8217;d be in serious trouble. More books come out each year than I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4475&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Half a Man by Scarlet Blackwell</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/01/review-half-a-man-by-scarlet-blackwell/</link>
		<comments>http://speakitsname.com/2012/01/01/review-half-a-man-by-scarlet-blackwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traumatised by the nightmare of trench warfare in France, Robert Blake turns to rent boy Jack Anderson for solace. Neither man expects their business relationship to go quite so far. It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War with a recovering Britain in the grip of the influenza pandemic. Crippled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4055&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Calendar Winners Post</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/12/26/advent-calendar-winners-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas to all! Thank you ALL so much for following the blog this month. The visits have been growing steadily and loads of people have subscribed to the posts and have been visiting each day. Here&#8217;s hoping that you&#8217;ll stick around in the New Year and enjoy the masses of reviews we still have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4302&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/12/25/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you all had a great day, or are having one. Due to too many sherbets inhaled by yours truly, the prize list won&#8217;t go up until tomorrow!  Many apologies &#8211; but it will be worth it, I promise you! Erastes &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4447&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Angels and Sugarplums</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2011/12/24/angels-and-sugarplums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLICK ON THE SNOWFLAKE TO OPEN THE DOOR! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM LEE ROWAN! &#8220;A what?&#8221; Lord Robert Scoville seldom raised his voice (and never to a Foreign Office Minister) but the situation was, to say the least, unusual. He took a quick sip of punch from the cup in his hand, and collected himself. &#8220;Don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&amp;blog=1542532&amp;post=4407&amp;subd=speakitsname&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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