Speak Its Name Update

[erastes]

Seems it wasn't such a mad idea and that people are actually reading and enjoying the Gay Historical Fiction Blog.  I've gathered in some great and generous reviewers so expect reviews by leebenoit, evremonde, zehavit_lamasu, Karen Field  and girluknow, and thank you guys for wanting to get involved.

List of Reviews so far: I'll only post here after we have another five or so more up.

Street Lavender by Chris Hunt
Dangerous Moonlight by Mel Keegan
Gaywyck by Vincent Virga
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Standish by Erastes
Historical Obsessions – A romantic quartet by Julia Talbot
Peridot by Parhelion
Smokescreen by Stevie Woods
Sound and Fury by B A Tortuga
An East Wind Blowing by Mel Keegan
As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
The Boy I Love by Marion Husband
Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Winds of Change by Lee Rowan
Ransom by Lee Rowan
The Back Passage by James Lear
The Phoenix by Ruth Sims

Let me know if:

If you have a writers blog that you would like put on the sidebar
If you want to post a review
If you have a book you'd like reviewed ("historical" is slightly wider than the HNS - we will review up to about 1950)
If you know of a book that's not on THE LIST
If you have any ideas at all

What the HELL are we going to do when we have read/reviewed every single one of them?  Why are you reading this?  Go and write some!

Comments

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be great! I have a huge pile of textbooks I've been collecting over the last year (haven't opened one of them yet... (ashamed)) so that would be really useful for anyone who is thinking of writing in the genre, which I really hope we can encourage people to do. I don't want to run out of books to read/review! I wish I could work out how Wordpress works, I need more "sub-pages"

[leebenoit.livejournal.com]

I have a huge pile of textbooks I've been collecting over the last year (haven't opened one of them yet... (ashamed))

One of the delights of "lifelong student" status - I have to have a reading list for everything!

I like the format you established with the Jones book: Publisher's description, table of contents, then open to comments. (Eliminates the pressure to write reviews of complicated scholarly texts.

Thanks again for doing this site - it's a terrific resource!

Lee