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		<title>A Hand in the Sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone says the words &#8220;Morocco&#8221; &#8220;World War Two&#8221; and &#8220;Nazis&#8221; the first thing you think about probably isn&#8217;t a rubber glove full of chocolate syrup.
In fact, it&#8217;s a reasonable bet they didn&#8217;t even have chocolate syrup in Morocco during World War Two and even if they did, it&#8217;s unlikely that your average Moroccan native [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=1023&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things that go bump in the night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kcotoner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit (no pun intended) of the spooky dark nights drawing in here in the UK, I decided to do a post about William of Newburgh’s medieval stories about English vampires. Now these aren’t your usual bloodsucking beasties with fangs, capes, and a dodgy Transylvanian accent – in fact, they’re revenants, close kin to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=1007&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Note of Caution, perhaps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just been writing a review of “Fellow Travellers” by T.C. Worsley for Speak Its Name (review will go up on 25th, not there yet, I’m scheduling them for one a day,  which is working out well, I think) and I was struck by the similarity to part  of the plot (based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=1005&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Character Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/historical-character-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
While restructuring Speak Its Name, I found myself on a horns of a dilemma, and would like to throw the subject open to see what people think.
I was about to pull several books for not being &#8220;actual history&#8221; e.g. dealing with people who really didn&#8217;t exist e.g. 14th century Hollywood style King Arthurs or Robin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=1003&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie goes to the Romantic Novelists’ Association lunch, take three</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/charlie-goes-to-the-romantic-novelists%e2%80%99-association-lunch-take-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must be getting used to this. I no longer get butterflies in the tummy as I go in through the door of Joe Daflo’s, I’m used to being the second youngest person present and I know that no-one will kill me if I say I write gay romance. I do still have the feeling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=996&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faces in the Crowd</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/faces-in-the-crowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies first of all for this being late.  I do honestly try to post something at least once a month and I thought September had 31 days.  Really. Honest!
At any rate, better late than pregnant never, that&#8217;s my motto, and I wanted to talk about characters &#8211; specifically, the kind you don&#8217;t necessarily want. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=982&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Good Fun &#8211; Again!</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/bloody-good-fun-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago I horrified you all by posting about my little &#8220;experiment&#8221; involving plaster skulls and animal blood &#8211; all in the name of research, you understand, for my murder mysteries.
Well, I&#8217;ve been at it again.
The case this time is a mad doctor loose in 1890s London, who&#8217;s running around and drilling holes in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=969&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you think about published fanfic?</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/what-do-you-think-about-published-fanfic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t mean the kind of fanfic that many of us have written in our time, the sort of fanfic in &#8216;zines and online where we aren&#8217;t making any money.
But the rash of fanfic that seems to be sprouting like mushrooms, particularly in the historical novel sections of bookshops.
Following successful sequels and prequels such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=965&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Correction to my interview &#8211; Bristlecone Pine Press</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/correction-to-my-interview-bristlecone-pine-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the interview posted yesterday, I stated that the very first book the Bristlecone Pine Press published was L.A. Heat by P.A. Brown which was wrong. Two months prior, I had launched Bristlecone with The Erotic Etudes by E.L. van Hine, a lyrical and deeply moving story about Robert Schumann, imagined from his diaries and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=961&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Leslie H Nicoll of Bristlecone Pine Press</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/interview-with-leslie-h-nicholl-of-bristlecone-pine-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite often that we hear of the launch of a new epublisher, but Bristlecone Pine Press is not your typical epublisher and its raison d&#8217;etre and modus operandi are both unusual and (in my opinion) a pretty damn good idea.
Bristlecone Pine Press are producing the ebook versions of Frost Fair, Ransom and Winds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=956&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Mark Probst of Cheyenne Publishing</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/interview-with-mark-probst-of-cheyenne-publishing/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/interview-with-mark-probst-of-cheyenne-publishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often there&#8217;s a new publisher in town, and even less often when you consider that this is a publisher specializing in GBLT historic fiction.  I managed to catch Mark on the eve of Cheyenne Publishing&#8217;s relaunch of some of the most prestigious novels of the m/m historical romance genre to ask him [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=954&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheyenne Publishing/Bristlecone Press</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/cheyenne-publishingbristlecone-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us starting Tuesday at Speak Its Name http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/SpeakItsN ame/ for a celebration of the relaunch of some popular m/m historical titles and a sneak preview of a new m/m historical anthology. We&#8217;ll have interviews, chats, excerpts, and prizes!

Cheyenne Publications, a small GLBT-oriented press helmed by publisher and author Mark Probst, will be publishing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=950&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Things Become Other Things, Story Ensues.</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/when-things-become-other-things-story-ensues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will admit: when it comes to the inspirations for my stories, I&#8217;m a pretty omnivorous creature, and while I don&#8217;t watch television as such (the plethora of &#8220;reality&#8221; shows makes me want to slit my wrists with uncooked pasta) I&#8217;ve gotten rather good at Hoovering up influences from other sources.
What usually happens is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=936&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie does lunch with the RNA again</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/charlie-does-lunch-with-the-rna-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the bi-monthly local Romantic Novelists’ Association lunch. I love going to these – not only is it held in a nice venue, and I get lunch out, the event makes me feel young and rather techno whizzy (as opposed to feeling old and techno Neanderthal, which is my usual state). 
Out of about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=932&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Accuracy: Why It Matters</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/historical-accuracy-why-it-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/historical-accuracy-why-it-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Leslie H. Nicoll
If you want to be a Macaroni, you have to be a stickler for historical accuracy. Not to scare anyone off, but to me, half the fun of writing historical fiction is doing the research. I love looking up things and learning new tidbits of information. Doesn’t everyone?
This is on my mind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=917&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Sublime to the Ridiculous</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From the sublime to the ridiculous is merely a step.&#8221; (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Writing a novel about Napoleon Bonaparte &#8211; that is to say, THE Napoleon, the one who came before and lent his name to all the others &#8211; can best be described as a foray into both the sublime and the ridiculous.  Sublime, for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=902&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday in the Mall With George&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/893/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 22:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m the sort of writer that writes the way  Method actors act: you know, you become  your character.  This supposedly puts you in the  (possibly, although I&#8217;m not entirely sure) position  of seeing what your character sees, hearing what he hears, tasting whatever he puts in his mouth (yes, really) and, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=893&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hardest Part of a M/M Historical Romance…</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-hardest-part-of-a-mm-historical-romance%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-hardest-part-of-a-mm-historical-romance%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 06:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avamarch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not that! While I prefer my heroes hard in my m/m historical romances, I don’t find it particularly difficult to get them hard. No, what I’m referring to is the HEA (happily ever after) in a m/m historical romance, Regency-set romances to be specific.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Regency time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=874&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie meets the RNA, the RNA meets Charlie</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/charlie-meets-the-rna-the-rna-meets-charlie/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/charlie-meets-the-rna-the-rna-meets-charlie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not for the first time, Alex Beecroft inspired me. She’s a member of the RNA (Romantic Novelists’ Association) and had gone to one of their meetings. And spoken to other authors. Real, live, face to face ones. In a mad moment I resolved to do the same, so I found out who was our local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=871&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Figures Imperative?</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/historical-figures-imperative/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/historical-figures-imperative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
There’s a post over at Reading the Past which discusses the presence or absence of actual historical characters and events in historical fiction and whether the absence of them in books defines historical fiction or not.
I’m rather of the opinion that—going by the HNS definition—that it doesn’t make any difference whether there are any actual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=867&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin Historical&#8211;A Guest Post by Chris Smith</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/virgin-historical-a-guest-post-by-chris-smith/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/virgin-historical-a-guest-post-by-chris-smith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Hello All,
Like a gazelle in a field of ravening cheetahs, I am sticking my head above the wall as that rarest of rare things on the Macaronis, an unpublished author. Do not worry, Alex Beecroft has given permission for the tasty morsel to wander into your playing field.
See, I am about 5 days away from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=849&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Good Fun</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/bloody-good-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/bloody-good-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>louisrenault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
As a writer of gay historical mysteries, it&#8217;s important to me to make sure that my research is correct, not only in terms of places and clothing and people, but in terms of the murder scene itself.  I long ago realised that forensics textbooks (of which I own several, and often have to be forcibly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=834&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making History Sexy, by Josh Lanyon</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/making-history-sexy-by-josh-lanyon/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/making-history-sexy-by-josh-lanyon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making History Sexy
I don’t do a lot of historical romance. Not that I don’t love history &#8212; history is one of my passions, as a matter of fact &#8212; but I find that my single historical romance &#8212; Snowball in Hell &#8212; doesn’t sell as well as my other titles. It’s not, as my natural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=829&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing about gay soldiers from a historical perspective.</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/writing-about-gay-soldiers-from-a-historical-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markprobst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark R. Probst
My current writing project is a piece about a gay soldier in a famous historical battle. It is a unique challenge to write a fictional story with fictional characters and have them interact with real characters and true events in a historically significant battle, especially one as well-known as the one I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=762&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Really do wish you were here&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/really-do-wish-you-were-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have trouble deciding whether I side with LP Hartley “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” or the alternative version (whose author I can’t recall, but might be Douglas Adams) “The past really is a foreign country; they do things exactly the same there.”  When I was last on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=753&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book release &#8211; Lessons in Desire by Charlie Cochrane</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/book-release-lessons-in-desire-by-charlie-cochrane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is an island in the sun…”
Well, it’s not quite the Indies – West or East – but Jersey certainly is a special place. We’ve holidayed there regularly (going again this year) and I’ve never seen an island which could pack so much variety into so few square miles; beaches, castles, restaurants, shops, history ancient [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=738&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Out&#8217; and in sport.</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/out-and-in-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday 5th May 1998, BBC News: Justin Fashanu was found dead in a lock-up garage in east London on Saturday. The former Norwich City and Nottingham Forest footballer died as a result of hanging, a post-mortem examination has concluded.
Justin Fashanu was the first footballer to come out; at the time of his death he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=706&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Historical Fiction. Settings. Part One</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/historical-fiction-settings-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;ve been noticing recently that almost every historical to cross my path has a Regency or possibly Victorian setting. I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a good reason for this – those ages are more modern in their outlook, and are also very popular in costume dramas on the TV and the movies.
But there are other eras to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=730&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Opinion from an M/M Historical Romance Writer Riding the Short Bus</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/an-opinion-from-an-mm-historical-romance-writer-riding-the-short-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kiernankelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kiernan Kelly
A reader recently remarked to me that he found the thought of writing a historical piece of romantic fiction intimidating. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know enough. I&#8217;m not a historian, like you,&#8221; he said.
 
After I finished laughing hysterically, I had to set him straight. 
 
When it comes to being an authority on anything besides tying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=702&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Books for a Writer&#8217;s Island</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/ten-books-for-a-writers-island/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Rowan</dc:creator>
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What books would you want beside you if you had a lovely, private cottage with your computer on a solar-recharger, a story to write, and lots of time &#8230; but no library available?   I know which ones I&#8217;d want.
I&#8217;m not going to list the bare-bones: an Unabridged Dictionary, Bartlett&#8217;s Quotations, The Elements of Style, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&blog=3113611&post=688&subd=historicromance&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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