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ETA: I should have pointed out that this review is EDITOR'S CHOICE, which is pretty damned huge for this magazine.

This is a screenshot from The Historical Novel Society’s review magazine. “Very highly recommended” they say.

What’s great about the review (click on the image to see a larger, readable version) is that it doesn’t bellow “OMG it’s a gay historical” as if that was the most important part about it. In fact it hardly mentions that it’s gay at all, or at least not as being anything to scare the horses, it just simply emphasises that it’s beautifully written.

I’m so HAPPY for Don for this review, not only for himself because the book deserves the attention (and praise) but because of the good it does the genre as a whole.

THANK YOU, Historical Novel Society, for opening your arms to gay historicals and simply absorbing them into the historical genre with not even a ripple on the water. I wish more writers groups were so sensible. I'll add that the Romantic Novelists Association ALSO do this—they aren’t all fainting in coils at the gay either.

Perhaps it’s because both the HNS and the RNA are British? Something to think on, perhaps.