Well, that's interesting.

[erastes]

I'm always very interested and excited when I find a new gay historical (as you all know!) because it's great to see someone else breaking into the genre.  So when I saw that someone called Jamie Craig had written a gay poets novel - which looked like it might be historical, although it wasn't terribly clear by the blurb - I wrote to Samhain and asked them if I could possibly see a copy for review on Speak its Name.  I so rarely do this, as 1. I'm too embarrassed and 2. I can afford the measly £2 the book was costing (!) but in this case I couldn't get hold of a copy - on fictionwise it's not available in a format I can read, and on Samhain I can't pay other than by credit card. So I was well and truly scuppered.

Imagine my shame when Samhain replied, but only to ask me how many hits I had on Speak its Name a month.  I felt the ground swallow me up. I mumbled that it was on or over 2k a month, but as we WERE the only dedicated gay historical review site anywhere (that I know of) I sort of thought they'd like us to showcase it. So - sorry Jamie - I'd love to review your book, but at the moment I can't get hold of a copy in Acrobat! I'm working on other formats, so .. hopefully.

Frost Fair: Things I found out I know nothing about today:

Fog in 1814 (and mistaking 1814 with 'the year of no summer')
Price of paper in ditto
How to walk on icy snowy cobbles

Other than that it's been a good, flowing day over 1500 words and we have hit over 5k.