While in the midst of my virtual book tour with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, I was asked to write a post about the issues my characters might face in 1846, being that sodomy was against the law and all. There was a glitch with the original posting, so Amy Bruno was kind enough to put the post up at her blog, and the basic theme of the post is this:
“I’m not an expert on gay history, or on criminal justice in Victorian England, but I do pretend to be one when I write my books about Oliver and Jack. That is, I know enough (I think) about that era and use that knowledge to add enough realism to make the story vivid, while not at the same time bogging the reader down with too many facts.”