Firstly -- apologies to people still waiting on responses to various memes. I'm slowly getting them answered, but I keep getting sidetracked because, um, stories, sparkly boys, the sexy. This'll learn me to post a bunch of meme things in too short a period of time, because I am too frigging slow and overworked and busy to fully participate in
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Virginia Henley's historicals are good (Seduced has that whole heroine-masquerading-as-her-twin-brother-hero-finds-himself-oddly-attracted-to-his-boy-ward thing going on), as are Julia London's. I started out on Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, who sort of pioneered the genre, but, um. She took a few books to a) hit her writing stride and b) lay off the rape-leads-to-true-love trope.
As for gay historical romance novels - I'd really like to write one, but I have no idea where it would go afterward. And I think that was an ambition conceived of alternately reading popslash AUs and romance novels, so you're not alone. *g*
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