On the Shelf for January 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 248

On the Shelf for January 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 248 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• A summary of what the podcast and blog have covered this year
• Upcoming BBC series with a sapphic take on Marie Antoinette
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • Moore, Lisa. 1997. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel. Duke University Press, Durham, 1997. ISBN 0-8223-2049-5
• New and forthcoming fiction
  • A Rose Blooms at Golden Fork by Rachel Anderson
  • Just Wide Enough for Two by Kacey M. Martin
  • Rachel Kelly And The Vigilantes (Rachel Kelly in Oregon County # 1) by Pamela Cabot
  • Unchain My Heart: A Fantasy Lesbian Romance in Classical Greece (Bonds of Fate #1) by R.J. Martin
  • Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
  • Vanilla Kisses (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #1) by C.C. Burns
  • Appetence (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #2) by C.C. Burns
  • Midwinter (Diary of an Obstinate, Headstrong Female #3) by C.C. Burns
  • Hen Fever by author
  • White Star: A lesbian Gilded Age romance set on the Titanic by Laura Jelenkovich
  • The Demon Gospel (Hidden Gods #2) by Ariel Dalziel
  • Her Enticing Muse (Ladylike Inclinations #3) by Violet Cowper
  • Forever's Promise by Missouri Vaun
  • The Ashes of the Brothel: Betrayal in the Wickedest Little Town in the West by Katryna Lalock
  • After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
  • In the Shadow of Truth (Shadow Series 3) by J.E. Leak
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
  • The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
  • Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell
• Call for submissions for the 2023 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
• This month we interview Jennifer Nestojko and talk about:
  • The inspirations for “From the Bird’s Nest”
  • The joys of epistolary stories
  • Writing disabilities in a historic context
  • Being a writer and a teacher
  • Ideas for an Anglo-Saxon setting and playing around with Beowulf
  • Books and authors mentioned:
    • Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
    • Emily Dickinson
    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    • Work by Louisa May Alcott
    • Sarah Orne Jewett
    • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    • Re: Beowulf-related novels:
    • Jennifer may have been thinking of Grendel by John Gardner.
    • The novel written from the viewpoint of Grendel’s mother that I was thinking of was The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley, who also wrote an acclaimed modern translation of Beowulf.
    • Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    • Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
    • Fairacre Series by “Miss Read,” pen name of Dora Jessie Saint

A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview 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
• Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)