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[erastes]

I had to laugh at these-found on a historical romance blog today

1. An advert in La Belle Assemblée : Sir Hans Soane’s Restorative and Re-Animating Pills for those distressing Debilities which prevent, or render unhappy, the Marriage State (but cannot, with a due regard to delicacy, be mentioned in a public magazine.

The afflicted could send off for a helpful pamphlet for 1/- or purchase a box of pills for 10/6d.

Ye olde Viagra!

2. It was a really exciting period. In the first book, the heroine is trying to breed a better chicken. In the second, the heroine is severely short-sighted and the heroine of the third book owns a small factory.

A better chicken!!! You don't get much more exciting than that!!! Someone call Hugh Fernley Whittingstall!

Yes I'm bored. And your point is?

I'm attempting to get on with "Frost Fair" which is going to be my Winter novella for Linden Bay Romance but although my hero has his fingers on another man's placket, he seems rather reluctant to dig in and find what lies beneath. *kicks him* This isn't a time for conversation damn you!

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Actually...

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

And now you've got me racking my brains for the title, but ten or twelve years ago I read an absolutely fascinating mystery (no smooching of any persuasion, alas) set during the time Mendel was researching genetics in his garden with all those peas. It was fabulous -- and surprisingly full of intrigue set in the science-world of the time.

So maybe the quest for a better chicken could be cool...

Re: Actually...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Now, I'd like to read that, if you ever think of the title!

[madrigalist.livejournal.com]

So characters not playing nice with the authors seems to be going around lately? Good. Then I am not alone...

Meanwhile the word deadline looms over our heads.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No - I had a big masturbation scene planned as the first chapter and no-one even unbuttoned!

*smacks them*

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the Placket-Pauser needs those Re-Animating Pills? Or perhaps (gasp!) he over-indulged in them during That Sordid Episode in His past.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort* Now that would be an amusing side-line!

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I love short-sighted... how Wilde.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*laughs * yes, that would work!

[zamaxfield.livejournal.com]

I think Lady Bracknell? Advising Gwendolyn? Memory fails... cough cough... so many years... cough cough, and I wanted to play the Ingenue! (damn it.)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

He was henpecked... but the worm was about to turn!

BUFF ORPINGTON!

A saga of one man living on chickenfeed whilst trifling with poultry passion!

Still... when I was in my tweens I ran across a novel, "Justin Morgan Had a Horse," about the breeding of the Morgan Horse, and I adored that thing--must've taken it out of the library half a dozen times. But horses are inherently exciting to adolescent girls--it would take a real wordsmith to do much with chickens.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I am fairly sure I read that book at one point!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I did too. I think all the horse books were guaranteed a ride out the library doors.
I checked out Smoky an embarrassing number of times.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Me too - I used to have shelves of them as a child. Still have all the Jill books, (and a few others if truth be told) I just love 'em