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  About the Authors

  Charlie Cochrane

  Charlie Cochrane primarily writes historical gay mysteries/romances, although she has to admit that her favorite short story is the one she wrote about gay werewolves. She started writing relatively late in life but believes she draws on all her hoarded experiences to try to give a depth and richness to her stories.

  Her ideal day would be a morning walking along a beach, an afternoon spent watching rugby, and a church service in the evening, with her husband and daughters tagging along, naturally. She loves reading, theatre, good food and watching sport, especially rugby.

  Aftermath, Charlie’s story in Speak Its Name, was the first story she had published and holds a special place in her heart.

  Charlie’s Cambridge Fellows Mysteries Series, set in Edwardian England, is available through Samhain, and she has stories in the anthologies Past Shadows and I Do (MLR) and Queer Wolf (Queered Fiction).

  Lee Rowan

  Lee Rowan has been writing since childhood, but professionally only since spring of 2006, with the publication of her Eppie-winning novel, Ransom. She is a lady of a certain age, old enough to know better but young enough to do it anyway. A confirmed bookaholic with a wife of many years, she is kept in line by a cadre of cats and a dog who gets her away from the computer and out of the house at least once a day.

  Erastes

  Erastes has been writing since 2003, and has had two novels, three novellas and over 20 short stories published, which have appeared in anthologies by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, STARbooks and many others. She specialises in gay historical fiction and works hard to bring attention to the genre. She owns Speak Its Name, the only review site to concentrate on gay historical fiction and is a member of The Macaronis, a group of like-minded authors. Her second novel, Transgressions, was one of the flagship releases by Running Press in their M/M Historical Romance line which is being marketed directly at the existing romance market.

  She’s also the Director of the Erotic Authors Association, and lives on the Norfolk Broads in England. She is drawing on the landscape of the local area for her next novel, a Victorian Gothic mystery, Mere Mortals.

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  Bristlecone Pine Press, an imprint of Maine Desk, LLC

  10A Beach Street, Suite 2

  Portland, ME 04101

  First Bristlecone Pine Printing, October 2009

  Aftermath, copright © Charlie Cochrane, 2008

  Gentleman’s Gentleman, copyright © J.M. Lindner, 2008

  Hard and Fast, copyright © Erastes, 2008

  All rights reserved

  Cochrane, Charlie; Rowan, Lee; Erastes

  Speak Its Name/An anthology

  ISBN: 978-1-60722-014-5

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  PUBLISHER’S NOTE

  This is a work of historical fiction. Apart from well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

  Published in the United States of America

  Edited by Leslie H. Nicoll

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