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    You can read blurbs, excerpts, see book trailers, and buy works under the published links You can read also complete stories or download ebooks under the Full Stories link. Our works in progress with excerpts are under the WIPS link.

    Most stories are sexually explicit, mostly gay. You've been warned. If you are under 18, or don't like graphic sex, gay or otherwise, go away. This isn't the place for you. Shayne can be reached at shayne (AT) theprincesangel.com Mychael can be reached at mychael_black (AT) yahoo.com

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    Research
    This is going to be Shayne's spot for resources he's used for the historical stories he's doing.

    I'll be working on Royalty type story and a Regency for Phaze. Though the two themes weren't accepted for their Heat Sheets, I warned my editor they'd be coming her way whether or not the themes were chosen. Mwahahaha

    Besides the works in progress, it might help to mention I also have books entitled Battles of the Dark Ages, Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, The Making of Victorian Values, The Vatican, and more. Yes, I am going to be doing more historical writing outside of Myc and me doing the usual paranormal. I know Myc wants to write a Crusades novel as well.

    His Sire's Heart - Most of my sources for research were the online sites below. I'm fairly knowledgeable about the time period but needed a bit of brushing up. There's also a book called Regency Collections. It was written by Captain Gronow and edited by Christopher Summerville. I received it after I finished the novella, but I found it a fascinating insight into the Regency.

    In the story I make a short mention of the Countess of Jersey. I don't know about any other Regency writers, but I kept looking over my shoulder. I was half afraid the grande dame was watching just in case I didn't write her in the appropriate fashion.
    I'm making a note to myself to write more works placed in the Regency. It's one of my favorite time periods.

    Update: His Sire's Heart was accepted by Torquere Press and will published early 2009.

    http://www.chinet.com/~laura/html/titles12.html -- I referred quite a bit to this page to remember how each Regency peerage would be addressed as.
    http://www.janeausten.co.uk/magazine/page.ihtml?pid=262&step=4
    http://www.thenonesuch.com/lexicon.html
    http://www.elegantarts.org/regencyrefs.html
    http://www.gleeson.us/faro/ -- I had a great deal of fun at this site, learning to play Faro.

    Blood Beginnings - I'm using a combination of online sites and research books for this work. I'm working on Khasekhemwy's story right now. The thing with writing ancient history is that it's great deal of a few facts here, a few facts there and most is the author's imagination. Blood Beginnings is a historical in the sense that it takes place in Ancient Egypt and Rome. But all of the paranormal elements with Osiris, Isis and Seth are all my own.

    http://www.behindthename.com/glossary/view.php?title=roman_names
    http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/rom-anci.php
    http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/names.html
    http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/egy-anci.php
    http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientRome.html
    69 A.D. The Year of Four Emperors - Gwyn Morgan
    Emperors of Rome - David Potter
    Roman Life - John R. Clark
    Ancient Egypt - Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin
    Imagining Egypt - Mark Millmore
    The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology - Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm

    :: Current Historicals ::
    His Sire's Heart - Regency period
    Blood Beginnings - Ancient Egypt/Rome