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Aug. 11th, 2009

Come over to Speak Its Name today and all week!

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We are having a few days of author chats, prizes and preview of works to come, thanks to the Cheyenne Publishing and Bristlecone Press relaunch of Frost Fair, Ransom and Winds of Change.

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Cheyenne Publications, a small GLBT-oriented press helmed by publisher and author Mark Probst, will be publishing the print versions of Erastes’ Frost Fair, Lee Rowan’s own Royal Navy series (formerly the Articles of War series), and Speak its Name, a trilogy that includes Charlie Cochrane’s first published work, Aftermath, Erastes’ Hard and Fast and Lee Rowan’s Gentleman’s Gentleman.

Leslie Nichol, head of Bristlecone Pine Press, will handle the e-book editions. Frost Fair, Ransom and Winds of Change are available as ebook versions in all the normal places. Both publishers will be on hand to answer questions, so if you have questions about the nuts-and-bolts, here’s your chance!

Tuesday: Publisher interviews, Author chats with Erastes and Lee Rowan and excerpts from the three releases: Frost Fair, Ransom, and Winds of Change.

Wednesday: Spotlights on Eye of the Storm and Speak Its Name Trilogy, coming September 14 and October 26.

Friday: What else is coming from Cheyenne Publishing and Bristlecone Pine Press — Hidden Conflict: Tales of Lost Voices from Battle.

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The lineup from Cheyenne and BCPP (and yes, print and e-books on the same schedule!)

August 1, 2009: Frost Fair, Ransom and Winds of Change (Royal Navy series)

September 14, 2009 Eye of the Storm (Royal Navy series)

October 26 2009 Speak Its Name Trilogy

November 11: Hidden Conflict: Tales of Lost Voices from Battle

December 7, 2009 Walking Wounded

January 1, 2010 Home is the Sailor (NEW Royal Navy novel!)

March 1, 2010 Sail Away (anthology, Royal Navy series)

If you’re not a member of Speak Its Name, all you have to do is request membership – it’s invite-only to keep out the porno spammers.

Do come along and join in!

Quentin Tarantino's film renamed Inglorious and not Inglorious Basterds. What's the reasoning behind that, do you think? So people can't be offended reading a mild and mispelled swear word as they queue up to watch a film with more stomach-churning rape and violence than you can shake a stick at? There are no words.

I had a lovely morning! I drove out to Caister to get some shopping (that bit wasn't lovely) and on the way back I decided to go to Horsey, to have a look at the place. I would have liked to have done in the winter to look, because that’s when Mere Mortals was set, but when I first started it it was set in Dartmoor.

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Horsey Windpump—probably very much the way that Crispin saw it.

I didn’t stop at Horsey Mere itself, as the small car park was filled with tourists “ey up, our Mabel, did you pack t’crisps?” but I’d like to go back in the winter, perhaps get a day boat and have a better look. Too late perhaps for inspiration, but I’d like to follow the rest of Crispin’s journey, even if Bittern’s Reach (a house on an island in the middle of Horsey Mere) doesn’t actually exist.