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Gay Valentine's Day anthology 2008

I’m pleased to announce that the following books have been chosen for the still untitled 2008 M/M Valentine’s Day anthology.

Hot Ticket by KA Mitchell
For Love and Country by Mary Winter
Court Appointed by Annmarie McKenna

Congratulations to those authors and thanks to everyone who submitted. I was blown away by the high quality of the submissions. It made it incredibly difficult to choose only three.

Sasha Knight
Editor, Samhain Publishing
www.samhainpublishing.com

Submissions

Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard from many authors wanting to know how to get a submission read by an editor at Samhain right now. As it states on the submissions page of our website, Samhain is temporarily closed to submissions.

It's going to be a STEAMY summer...

Coming Summer 2007 from Samhain Publishing, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S STEAM, 24 short, steamy stories showing just how hot the summer can get.

Experience Does Matter

For the past couple months, I’ve been re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD. Since the show ended in 2003, I’ve watched an episode here or there, but I’ve never sat down and watched the entire series, in order, from the very beginning. Heck, I didn’t see it in order when it first aired. When the show premiered, I didn’t think it would be for me. I hadn’t enjoyed the movie very much and assumed the TV show would be more of the same. It took a year of hearing about how good it was before I tuned in.

Lamenting the Long Lost Historical Time Periods

Back in high school and college, I took several history courses, and I seem to recall studying about events outside of those that took place in Medieval, Regency, or American Western time periods. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading books set in those times periods. But there’s a lot more history available for the telling. People have been falling in love since the beginning of time, so why is it so hard to find any historical romance novels that take place outside of the above-mentioned times in history?