Two reviews - and a post on LUST BITES

[erastes]

Literary Nymphs have reviewed both Standish and Chiaroscuro and have given them both "Five Nymphs"

Erastes thrusts us back into post-Napoleonic Europe in Standish, with vivid scenic descriptions and lively period language. He has created a story that readers will enjoy not just because of his style of writing, which is fabulous all onto itself, but because of the lessons learned by two incredibly written characters. This is a story to be read and embraced.

The authors of Night Moves have brought us four fantastic stories about vampires. While each story presents characters with an allure that keeps readers begging for more; the similarities will end there. ...There is no weak link in this anthology.

And if that wasn't enough, I've posted a post on Lust Bites about historical fiction writing vs accuracy and hygiene in sex scenes.

How do you solve a problem like smegma?

Comments

[buachaill-dubh.livejournal.com]

"How do you solve a problem like smegma?"

enough already with the smegma! considering the things that ladies, lord love em, regularly produce from their bodies what is a little smegma by comparison? olden days men might have deliberately chosen to turn to other men just to avoid the horror of it all... and anyhow the real hygeine problem back then was what they did with their food before they knew about germs and tuberculosis in the milk and all that, yet olde tyme fiction never seems to have trouble with dinner table scenes.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Well, we ladies also produce smegma of course...

I agree about the food, but then that would be accurate to just write it as it came - no-one (or not many) people, knew about the tiny floating monsters in food and drink so it would not bother them one jot. Many historicals do deal with the problems of coping with storing food though, of course - weevils in the biscuits and people going mad with the ergot.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Show me an historical romance with the characters heaving up their socks and lying around suffering from food poisoning, and I'll show you a book that doesn't have readers coming back for seconds....

[erastes.livejournal.com]

And what about the barrel of rum with Nelson in? That the crew actually drank from??

ick!!

Is that even true?

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

They did pickle him in 'spirits.' Whether or not the crew drank from it ... well, hell, it was alcohol, so at least that would've been ... it would've been positively disgusting. Talk about 'drinking your health!'