Lust Bites - Good Review Bad Review..

I shall be reminding you all tomorrow, but I have a guest spot on "Lust Bites" tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited about, as it's a lovely community full of great erotica writers. So please pop over and post a question or a comment or anything you like.  I'd particularly welcome questions about Standish - or anything, of course.

Let's talk about sex, baby.

Talking of Standish - rosie_red73 loved it - which I'm very happy about, of course.  Thank you, Rosie.

I'd been debating whether to actually tell you guys this, because I was pretty ARGH! about it, but Standish got a pretty scathingly bad review from Mrs Giggles.  I think the main problem was that she didn't actually get that it was a gentle pastiche on the Regency novel, and she didn't like the "black and white" of my characters.  Meh.  But anyway, it was a milestone - the same way that "the first book" "the first review" "the first translation" is - "the first bad review" milestone has been passed, and lookit me, ma. I survived to tell the tale!  *proud*  For one who thinks that everyone should have opinions, I'm quite happy for Mrs Giggles to have hers.

Now. Talking of GOOD Reviews (or rather reviews of good books!) I'd like to extol

"The Phoenix" by Ruth Sims. m/m Historical




( Spoilers )

Summing Up.  Very highly recommended.  Certainly the best written gay historical I've read since At Swim Two Boys, and a book that convinces me that I can do better with my own prose.  This is not a "romance" btw, chaps - so while I'm giving no clues to the ending, I adored it, because it left me guessing right up until the very last chapter. It's a real keeper.
Four and a Half out of Five
Excerpts here