It was a busy evening at the riverside tavern called Ganymede’s Cup, a tavern with a reputation up and down the coast. It was that reputation that had earned the tavern its better known name, The Greek Boy, for the sign swinging over the door featured a young man in a skimpy chiton. Simpkins, the innkeeper, stopped wiping a dirty rag over a dirtier mug, staring at the man stooping under the doorway. “Why, Julius Davies, as I live and breathe! I’d heard you was hung!” Julius smirked and rolled his eyes heavenward. “La, my dear, you don’t know the half of it!” His companion coughed delicately into his fist. “Who’s your friend?” Simpkins nodded in their direction. Julius put his arm around the man’s shoulder. “Allow me to present Captain Christopher Daniels. He’s new to the area and I’m showing him the, uh, local sights.” --Pirate's Price, Darlene Marshall Someone asked me about the references to "Ganymede's Cup" in a conversation at another site. Ganyme...
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Pirates and Heaving Bosoms, Ahoy! If you have not yet gotten your copy of the hysterical Beyond Heaving Bosoms--The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels , get yourself to the nearest bookstore and settle in for some fun reading. Not only is it a snigger fest analyzing the modern romance novel, the novel that dare not bare its cover, but it's also wildly entertaining and has some home truths about the genre that we love. The Smart Bitches are Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell, who along with their followers (and I'm proud to count myself in that group) take aim at the worst and praise the best at their website, Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. And most squeeworthy of all, there's this on page 108: " Special Buttpirate Mention : In Darlene Marshall's Pirate's Price , the heroine is a cross-dresser, and her pirate ship is staffed entirely by gay pirates [italics theirs] (plus a gunner with an unhealthy attachment to his pet goose)." One small correction though: ...
I'm off to a meeting of the Alachua County Library District Foundation this afternoon, and while I'm there I'm going to donate two copies of Rache & Rosen to the German novel collection. A lot of folks don't know the ACLD has a German novel collection. That's because they didn't before I donated Samt & Sabel to them last year. I'm enjoying doing my part to expand the local public library's foreign novel collections.