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		<title>Same era, another mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Tom&#8217;s mother from Promises Made Under Fire. Very different kettle of fish from Mrs. S. Mother met me at the station, full of smiles and news. Father’s back playing up, her head much better, thank you, scandal about the neighbour’s son, who’d somehow mysteriously moved to Ireland. “And your friend Ben—he asked me [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2562&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mother&#8217;s Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, mothers. Every hero has one—or does he? It’s a sad fact that for most of the time in which historical fiction is set, it wasn’t uncommon for mothers to say a final farewell to their sons rather sooner than we’d hope in today’s world of antibiotics and modern hygiene. And as if childbearing itself [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2540&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But John worries about his</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In False Colors John Cavendish&#8217;s relationship with his mum, although off screen, is a big factor in the way he approaches life. It&#8217;s one of the many things he has to work through in the process of allowing himself to fall in love. ~*~*~*~ As everything paused on a high note, clear and perfect, John’s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2541&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of Mothers: Eusebius has a vision of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lvanhine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7-December 1855 Dear Hohenheim, It seems that a vast period of time has passed.  Another vision ensues.  I see myself in youth, curled into the hard windowseat that looks down into the Hauptmarkt from my room, and occasionally the front door rattles  as a customer enters or leaves.  It is my birthday, and I am [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2493&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter tries not to worry his mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am rather ashamed to realize how few of my characters seem to have mothers! But here, from Captain&#8217;s Surrender, is Peter Kenyon working through his grief at apparently having lost his lover, while remembering to reassure his mum that although he&#8217;s a prisoner of war, he&#8217;s still doing fine. ~*~*~*~ “May I write to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2521&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jonty Stewart&#8217;s mother&#8217;s most notable moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Lessons in Discovery. Orlando has lost his memory following an accident and can&#8217;t remember what Jonty&#8217;s Mama is like. He has a shock coming. “Jonathan! Orlando!” A voice that seemed to have been designed to penetrate concrete at two hundred yards rang through the college court. It was Sunday morning and the broomstick had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2495&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of mothers&#8230;Mrs. Stewart&#8217;s wishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the old warhorse herself, Mrs. Stewart, in surprisingly mellow mood, expressing her Mothering Sunday wishes for her son, Jonty. To Jonty, aged 4 I wish you joy, my golden child, laughter and happiness and length of days. I wish you sunshine, in skies as blue as your eyes. Snow to play in, wind to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2491&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mothering Sunday event tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/mothering-sunday-event-tomorrow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Various historical (and maybe hysterical) mothers from Macaronis authors&#8217; books will be dropping in tomorrow, some in the form of excerpts from gay romances and some in new material. They are a law unto themselves so why not drop in and see what&#8217;s going on?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2486&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the 18th Century?</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/why-the-18th-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve done a number of historicals now – enough to say I am a &#8216;historical novelist&#8217; – I still feel that not all historical eras are equal. People have said to me &#8216;the Tudors are very popular. I&#8217;d like to see you do something set in Tudor times.&#8217; I nod politely, because there&#8217;s no [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2481&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pseudo-medievalist&#8217;s guide to fire</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/a-pseudo-medievalists-guide-to-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Beecroft</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Pseudo-Medievalist&#8217;s Guide – to Fire.   Clearly there are many advantages to reading bad books. One of these is the inspiration to write blog posts in an effort to make sure it never happens again. There are several aspects of medieval life which are easily researchable, but which sometimes writers think they can make [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2472&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word of the Day &#8211; collywobbles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully will make this a weekly event, words found whilst doing my writing and researching. Feel free to email me with any you&#8217;d like included. A disordered state of the stomach characterized by rumbling in the intestines; diarrhœa with stomach-ache; hence gen. indisposition, ‘butterflies in the stomach’, a state of nervous fear. (In quot. 1853   used nonsensically.) 1823   P. Egan Grose&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2468&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winners of the Carina Bundles</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/winners-of-the-carina-bundles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry that we are a bit late in announcing this, my fault entirely! Thank you to everyone who entered, there was a great response. The winner of Ava March&#8217;s bundle is ELIN GREGORY The winner of my bundle is KIRSTEN (Here&#8217;s a screencap of my draw so you can see it&#8217;s all above board!) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2433&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Music be the food of writing – part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post in this series sees three more writers revealing their musical inspiration. Elin Gregory  I&#8217;ve had masses of inspiration from music over the years. Jethro Tull&#8217;s Songs From The Wood inspired a long bildungesroman that I would love to work up into a novel. It&#8217;s about a hill with a wood on it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2430&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Music be the food of writing &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/if-music-be-the-food-of-writing-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Beecroft: Music doesn&#8217;t seem to work that way for me. For a start, I don&#8217;t listen to much music these days, except when doing housework, and that tends to be trance music without any words. I did listen to a lot of 18th Century sea shanties when I was writing my Age of Sail [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2426&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Music be the food of writing &#8211; part 1</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/if-music-be-the-food-of-writing-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a google chat with Elin Gregory when (as often happens) things took a daft turn and we decided it would be a good idea to ask some of our favourite historical authors whether music inspired them to write &#8211; and how. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t such a daft idea &#8211; we had some [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2422&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 6 – Toad in the Hole by Marti Johnson</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/april-fools-day-daftfics-6-toad-in-the-hole-by-marti-johnson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tommy Walker, &#8220;Toad&#8221;, took a quick look over the edge of the ditch.  &#8220;Coach is comin, Jack,&#8217;&#8221; he whispered to his friend as he struggled to pull up his pants. &#8220;Bugger!&#8221; Jack exclaimed, scrambling up from his knees and fumbling with his own attire.  &#8220;Schedule must be off for sure.  The bloody thing shouldn&#8217;t be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2420&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 6 &#8211; Spotted Dick by Syd McGinley</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-6-spotted-dick-by-syd-mcginley/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-6-spotted-dick-by-syd-mcginley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are Charlie and Owen from the Dr. Fell series transported back in time to some anachronistic and unspecified College Compleat with random Captalization and Over-Excited Verbs.  Plus, some Extraneous Authorial Actions and Meta-Moments and an UnWarranted Instrusion from the Wrong Tom Brown. Non amo te, Dickus Spotticus Charles T Winkerton inspected the contents of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2417&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 5 &#8211; Apologies for the Faint Smell of Fish by Charlie Cochrane</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-5-apologies-for-the-faint-smell-of-fish-by-charlie-cochrane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the Faint Smell of Fish (starring the actor laddies from Home Fires Burning) “Apologies, apologies, apologies, apologies. For the faint, for the faint for the fai-ai-ai-ai-aint, for the faint smell,” the singer paused imperceptibly and took breath, “for the faint smell&#8230;of fish. Of fish. Of fish. Apologies, apologies, for the faint&#8230;” and she [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2413&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 4 &#8211; Slippery When Wet by Blaine D. Arden</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-4-slippery-when-wet-by-blaine-d-arden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slippery When Wet by Blaine D. Arden &#8220;You&#8217;re nuts!&#8221; &#8220;Oh, come on. I know you&#8217;re dying to try it out.&#8221; &#8220;N&#8217;uh-uh. No way. Your brother—&#8221; &#8220;Won&#8217;t be back for at least another two hours. Besides, he asked me to put it up for him.&#8221; &#8220;For the kids, Alex, not for us to… fool around on.&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2410&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 3 &#8211; Other Side Up by Lee Rowan</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-3-other-side-up-by-lee-rowan/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-3-other-side-up-by-lee-rowan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charliecochrane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God damn, son of a bitch!&#8221;   Corporal Chet Herbert usually watched his language when he was working with a jump class, but with no officers or ladies present, he felt free to express himself as the tiny figure suspended from its silken canopy drifted further away from his pursuing Jeep.  Chet hadn&#8217;t expected all the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2407&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 2 Bugger Bognor! By Elin Gregory</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-2-bugger-bognor-by-elin-gregory/</link>
		<comments>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-2-bugger-bognor-by-elin-gregory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh!&#8221; Don put the Sunday paper on the coffee table and got up. As soon as Rick had entered the living room he saw something was wrong. &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter? Bad news.&#8221; Rick put his mobile beside the paper with a peevish little click. &#8220;The boss. I’m going on a training course.&#8221; &#8220;What?&#8221; Don shook [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2404&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Fools Day Daftfics 1 Arising out of Obscurity by Bruin Fisher</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/april-fools-day-daftfics-1-arising-out-of-obscurity-by-bruin-fisher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arising out of Obscurity &#160; by Bruin Fisher I was walking the dog, an innocent enough activity, you would think. It should have been half an hour along the canal towpath and then over the bridge and back along the other side, getting home, towelling Tardy down if he&#8217;d been in the water and then [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2402&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carina&#8217;s M/M Week: Fun with Regency Cant with Ava March</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/carinas-mm-week-fun-with-regency-cant-with-ava-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to The Macaronis for having me today to start off the Carina Press M/M Week Blog Tour. Today, Carina Press is releasing six wonderful M/M romances, (two of which are historicals) and in celebration, the authors are going on a blog tour. As part of the tour, each author is giving away an ebook [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2396&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing out the boundaries</title>
		<link>http://historicromance.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/pushing-out-the-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I booked to do this blog, I was going to do a write up of the RNA Christmas party, but plenty of people have reported back on that so I decided to muse about a conversation I’d had just last weekend over lunch with two fellow authors. How can we expand our relatively small [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2385&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E M Forster&#8217;s gay fiction didn&#8217;t end with Maurice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read all E M Forster’s novels, starting with Maurice and working my way through the rest in no particular order. I&#8217;ve even read the fragments of novels he left behind, unfinished. They were all intriguing, some &#8211; Maurice and A Passage to India &#8211; were stunning, and the experience left me wanting more. There [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2380&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LOL Macaroni</title>
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		<title>LOL Macaroni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tripped up by words</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tripped up by words.  In my one Regency story I have a charcter talking about how hard the snow is falling; he calls it a blizzard. Nice, traditional English word, I thought. Imagine how cross I was to recently discover that not only is “blizzard” a late nineteenth century word as applied to weather, it’s American [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2300&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing other people&#8217;s historical crumpet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hugely indebted to Lee Benoit for mailing me with some pictures she noticed in an archive for the athletic departments at her old university. These lovely &#8211; and very modern looking lads &#8211; appear to be the 1870 baseball team. The guy sitting down, second from right, looks just like Steve Borthwick. And this lad from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2281&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More historical crumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 11:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up the book British Greats at a charity stall; it&#8217;s a real gem. As I flicked through, I came across this picture &#8211; the bloke second from the left at the back really caught my eye. &#8220;That&#8217;s Mallory! I had no idea he was so striking!&#8221; The story of Mallory and Irvine&#8217;s bid to climb Everest [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=historicromance.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3113611&#038;post=2273&#038;subd=historicromance&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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