Interview with Catherine Lundoff - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 14

Interview with Catherine Lundoff

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 14 with Heather Rose Jones

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

• How Alexandre Dumas and quitting law school started Catherine’s writing career
• Sources of historic inspiration
• Her favorite genres
• Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare’s fictional sister
• Her aspiration to blend Regency romance and pirates
• Catherine’s academic background in history and feminist anthropology
• Queen of Swords Press and other projects
• Plans for publishing historical fiction with fantastic elements under Queen of Swords Press
• Books mentioned
  • Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories by Catherine Lundoff.
  • "M. Le Maupin" in Lesbian Short Fiction, edited by Jinx Beers. Vol 3, Fall, 1997. Tantra Publications.
  • The Encyclopedia of Amazons by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era by Autumn Stephens
  • “A Splash of Crimson” by Catherine Lundoff in Respectable Horror, ed. Ian Burdon. Fox Spirit Books, 2017.
  • “Shakespeare’s Sister” in A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. 1929.
  • A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess. 1995.
  • “Great Reckonings, Little Rooms” by Catherine Lundoff (in Out of This World)
  • "Regency Masquerade" by Catherine Lundoff, reprinted in Kissed By Venus, May, 2008. Originally published in the Harrington Park Lesbian Fiction Quarterly. Vol. 3 (1), Alice Street Editions, 2002. (Historical Romance). (Mentioned in the interview as “Bath Masquerade”)
  • The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari Maund and Phil Nanson. Tempus, 2005.
  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd. Fentum Press, 2017. (reprint of the 1997 edition The Secret Life of Aphra Behn)
  • Silver Moon by Catherine Lundoff

A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Catherine Lundoff Online

• Website: Queen of Swords Press, Catherine’s newsletter, and the History of LGBTQ Speculative Fiction column “Out of the Past”
• Twitter: @clundoff
• Twitter - Queen of Swords Press: @qospress
• Twitter - Emily L. Byrne (pen name for erotica): @emilylbyrne
• Facebook: Catherine Lundoff
• Facebook: Queen of Swords Press
• Facebook: Emily L. Byrne