Not GHF but should be

[erastes]

Hot man in 16th century clothes. check. Whopping big … sword. Check. Title which could easily mean gay historical? Check!  What a shame this isn’t a gay historical!

I had this in an email today:

“I was at the San Antonio Romance Authors conference last weekend. One of the speakers was Kensington editor Peter Senftleben. I asked him about their GLBT line. He talked about the line not necessarily being romance but he wished Kensington would market the gay romances to women. He mentioned the "new gay romance line" that a publisher had started where the books were shelved in romance. I immediately plugged Transgressions, False Colors and Running Press. Later, while talking with him during the break, he mentioned you by name. Nice to know a NY editor is aware of your work!”

All I can say to that is eeeee! *THUD* Sadly, I have submitted to Kensington with Junction X and have heard nothing, and they operate the “If you hear nothing, you have FAILED” system, so not so good.

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Virginia Henley once wrote a story in which an older man was the ward of a couple of twins, a girl and a boy. He thought that the boy was a sodomite and so he tried to "straighten" him taking him in female brothel, gambling house and similar, only to find himself attracted by the lad. Obviously in the end it came out that the girl was the boy in disguise and so the attraction was not "forbidden". Elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh good LORD. how annoying ! thanks for that, i'll have to track that down at some point.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Shorn of her glorious raven tresses and dressed as a man, Lady Antonia Lamb became Lord Anthony Lamb, desperate to keep the property entailed to her twin brother, who is missing at sea. Trapped--and liberated--by her masquerade, Tony meets her new guardian, the devastatingly dangerous Adam Savage, who has returned from his plantation in Ceylon, determined to turn the innocent "boy" into a worldly man.

http://www.amazon.com/Seduced-Virginia-Henley/dp/0440244846/

It's one of the most famous example of "savage romance" by this author (quite famous to be very explicit...)

Elisa

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

BTW I don't know if I ever told you about a book I loved when I was younger. It was by an author that was not exactly "romance", Gillian Bradshaw, and was the story of a woman who posed as an eunuc to study medicine in Alexandria and fell in love with a Goth, who was willing to love "him" anyway.

"When Charis learns that her father has betrothed her to the hated Roman governor Festinus, she enlists the aid of her brother and flees to Alexandria. There, disguised as a eunuch, she begins to study Hippocratic medicine under the tutelage of a patient Jewish physician. The young woman excels as a healer and her fame spreads. Political intrigues force her to frontier outposts of the Roman Empire where she practices as an army doctor. She succeeds in maintaining her disguise until she is captured and held prisoner by the Goths during their uprising against the Romans. Bradshaw has superbly re-created the political, social, and intellectual climate of the 4th century A.D. and the attitudes towards woman and medicine in this excellent work for most public libraries"

http://www.amazon.com/Beacon-Alexandria-Hera-Gillian-Bradshaw/dp/1569470103/