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Feb 27, 2005 04:25

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 ( Read more... )

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dsudis February 27 2005, 14:10:54 UTC
I nurture a particular fondness for Emma Holly's romance novels with Beyond in the title - I think it's Beyond Innocence and Beyond Seduction. Innocence includes the very sympathetic treatment of the hero's gay younger brother, and Seduction, IIRC, had some very threesomey love triangle stuff involving the hero and some old friends of his. Ms. Holly first wrote erotica for Black Lace, I think, so her attitudes are a trifle more, um, flexible than most. *g* Then she started writing books with 'Midnight' in the title, about 14th century shapeshifting vampires, which still included the flexible sensibilities, but were sufficiently ahistorical and irritating to make me throw them across the room. YMMV.

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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