The Reviewers/Submit Your Book
If you have a gay historical novel, novella or a short story you would like reviewed by The Team, then email it to erastes at erastes dot com with the subject line: Review Submission
We are happy to review any format, so if you’d rather post a hard copy or point to a site online, then let us know. We’ll organise an address for a hard copy to go to.
Erastes writes smutty short stories and gay historical novels. He has no qualifications to do so, but doesn’t care. He lives on the Norfolk Broads and tells lies about everything.
Hayden Thorne writes gay young adult fiction in the gothic,
historical, and superhero genres. She lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area, where granola reigns supreme.
Lee Benoit writes historical and speculative fiction - hold the het - in an old farmhouse in the wilds of New England.
girluknow has sold a gay historical romantic time travel mystery e-book and is hoping to have the same luck with her second novel, a gay historical romance sans the time travel and mystery. She is currently a blue prisoner in a red state, residing in the most conservative county in Texas, but doesn’t let that stop her from being an enthusiastic heathen with the belief that love transcends everything, even gender. She’s naively optimistic enough to hope that even those people now informing her she’s going to Hell will some day come around to her way of thinking.
Born in Maryland, transplanted west, Karen Field (hyakinthia) is a history major and queer studies student at Northern Arizona University. Possessed of an odd fondness for queer literature and fantasy, some of her favorite books are At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O’Neill, New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear, and The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. Aside from doing the occasional review at Speak Its Name, she also has her own gay history blog at hyakinthia.blogspot.com
Fiona Glass has been creating imaginary worlds for years - worlds driven by two little words, ‘what if’, and by the horde of somewhat unusual characters that reside inside her head. Most of these worlds take the form of short stories, most involve homosexual characters, and most are in the paranormal, fantasy and erotic romance genres. Fiona has also written one novel, Roses in December, a gay erotic ghost story published by Torquere Press, and is currently working on her second novel.
9 Comments
October 18, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I have a question and a conundrum- I am fascinated by the sixties, and have written a murder mystery set in 1966, in America, and am at work on another set in 1968 in Vietnam. Is this period considered historical? It sure doesn’t seem contemporary, but there is a quiet buzz of recognition for things like the sound of Buffalo Springfield or Walter Cronkite’s voice. What do you think? Should these stories be marketed as historical or contemporary? And is there a third option? Thanks, Sarah
October 18, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Fiona and I were discussing this the other day, and I think that we can bend the “normal” rules of the historical novelists society (which are (i believe) nothing post WW2) and go for “40 years ago” which seems nicely historical, just a little post-Wolfenden and of course, a moveable feast as time moves on.
After all - if I don’t do that, I won’t get my latest WIP reviewed, seeing as how its 1962! And I’m sure you’ll agree, it’s just as hard getting the facts right for 40 years ago as is it for 140.
Are they gay novels? Do you want us to review them? Be brave now…
October 18, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I was born in 1962. That makes me “nicely historical”. Thanks!
I have a question, too. Is there any type or subgenre of gay historical that doesn’t fall into Speak Its Name guidelines? If someone submitted a story of a man from another planet arriving in ancient Atlantis to stop an evil genius from his homeworld from traveling through time wreaking havoc, but finds himself waylaid by a handsome stranger in 1810 and has to scramble (with handsome stranger at his side, of course) into the future to stop the evil genius from turning WWII into an atom-bomb-fest that will destroy the planet, etc, (not that I’m writing this (g), it’s just an example), would a novel like that be accepted for review? How about if I threw Godzilla, Morgan le Fay, Jesus, and a talking marmot into the mix?
I’m just curious to know if we draw a line or if we’re line-free.
October 18, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I’ve reviewed Vintner’s Luck and House on the Strand, and I think that’s the place to draw the line.
I had to refuse a shape shifting one in English Civil War America recently and the author was fine about it. There are many places they can have these reviewed, after all.
The thing is, the way I think about it is that the HISTORY of the book has got to be important - and not just a wallpaper on which to hang the gay story.
I’m still going to continue to read historicals with a paranormal aspect though, and this may change, depending on how they treat the history.
October 19, 2007 at 5:11 am
I’m still going to continue to read historicals with a paranormal aspect though, and this may change, depending on how they treat the history.
I know it won’t be for a few more months, but will Banshee fit the bill? I wasn’t sure if SiN also reviews historical gay YA fiction.
October 20, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I know this is gay historical fiction, but would you ever consider reviewing a lesbian romance set during the American Civil War?
October 21, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Hi K.I.
Not at the moment, I’m afraid - I just don’t have anyone who is willing to read and review them - which is a shame as I notice on Amazon that there more and more of them springing up and YAY for that. If I can find a group of people who will volunteer for the duty, I’d be more than happy to expand the community up to lesbian. The community is growing and more and more people are reading it, so it can only be a good thing. I’ll do some digging around, ask some questions and come back to you.
Thanks,
Erastes
February 7, 2008 at 4:45 am
Your submission address: erastes at erastes dot net or erastes@erastes.net doesn’t seem to work as an email address, at least for my internet service. what should I do?
April 22, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Please let me know when you are ready to review lesbian fiction. My paperback is coming out soon!
Libby Cone
http://www.waronthemargins.com
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