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Standish/Frost Fair - and sealing wax
Oct. 1st, 2008 11:02 amI had an email from my editor at Perseus yesterday. She'd bought, read, and really loved Hard and Fast. This makes me hugely happy.
Also, I had an email from a man who had read Standish. It really made me tear up (soppy Erastes!) because he reinforced everything that I believed when I started out writing gay historical fiction. My thought was that a few people had written it - but not many - and SURELY gay men must want the costumes, and the romance, and the adventure, and the alpha males and the duels. All the things that I loved about period drama - why should they be any different? It's been wonderful to find out that I was right, and that gay men are looking for all the same things that anyone else is - why should they be different After all? Part of what he said:
Also, I had an email from a man who had read Standish. It really made me tear up (soppy Erastes!) because he reinforced everything that I believed when I started out writing gay historical fiction. My thought was that a few people had written it - but not many - and SURELY gay men must want the costumes, and the romance, and the adventure, and the alpha males and the duels. All the things that I loved about period drama - why should they be any different? It's been wonderful to find out that I was right, and that gay men are looking for all the same things that anyone else is - why should they be different After all? Part of what he said:
"I have all ways loved historical romance such as Jane Eyre and secretly wished the hero/heroine(s) were two males. I never knew that books like yours existed.
Thank you so very much you have made a hopeless romantic very happy"
It makes a hopeless author very happy too. Every email I've had from men - and oddly, most of my emails ARE from men, even thought I assume that most of my readers are women - has said similar things, specially about not knowing that gay romance exists. I always give them links!
Other news: I have the cover for Frost Fair - it's not too bad. I'll never be a fan of half naked people on covers but it's not bad. I wanted something with the fair, but I know there would be copyright problems to do that - and Frost is pretty difficult to show. However, I can't help but think that their skins would be rather blue were they really standing nekkid waist deep in frozen water. They'd be dead. There's no outdoor sex in the book, so don't expect it! :D
( Probably not work-safe under the cut. )And I've added a Frost Fair page to the website, with a section of the first chapter if anyone would like to read it HERE.
Oh.And that hisssst! click! that the Dog Whisperer uses? Doesn't work on cats.
It makes a hopeless author very happy too. Every email I've had from men - and oddly, most of my emails ARE from men, even thought I assume that most of my readers are women - has said similar things, specially about not knowing that gay romance exists. I always give them links!
Other news: I have the cover for Frost Fair - it's not too bad. I'll never be a fan of half naked people on covers but it's not bad. I wanted something with the fair, but I know there would be copyright problems to do that - and Frost is pretty difficult to show. However, I can't help but think that their skins would be rather blue were they really standing nekkid waist deep in frozen water. They'd be dead. There's no outdoor sex in the book, so don't expect it! :D
( Probably not work-safe under the cut. )And I've added a Frost Fair page to the website, with a section of the first chapter if anyone would like to read it HERE.
Oh.And that hisssst! click! that the Dog Whisperer uses? Doesn't work on cats.
