On the Shelf for July 2023 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 262

On the Shelf for July 2023

The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 262 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Librivox’s “Out of the Closet” short fiction collection
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Hells of Notre Dame (The Phantom of Notre Dame #1) by R.L. Davennor
  • Catmint's Moth by Laura Jean Mason
  • A Study in Garnet (The Ladies of Baker Street #1) by Meredith Rose
  • A Field of Foxglove (Lavender and Foxglove #1) by Hilary Rose Berwick
  • Boadicea: Bowed not Broken by Jana Williams
  • Northwoman: Part Two by M. Jeffrey
  • Sweet Nothings and Other Confections by Sula Sullivan
  • Ann's Angel (School of Enlightenment) by Maggie Sims
  • Bunny by Annie Moon
  • A Crime of Secrets (Donner & Longstreet Mystery #1) by Ann Aptaker
  • Devil's Slide (Speakeasy #1) by Stacy Lynn Miller
  • Her Forgotten Promise by Corin Burnside
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Dawn of Eternal Winter by Veronika Sizova
  • Not Just Another to Bury by Cyan Vidales Nicoletti
  • The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein
  • Women of the Post by Joshunda Sanders
  • updated title and link: The Poisoned Pen Pal (The Kendallville Librarian #1) by Julie Kortidis
• What I’ve been consuming
  • Sixpenny Octavo by Annick Trent
  • The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women by Elizabeth Norton
• This month we interview Dee Holloway and talk about:
  • Stories inspired by Alfred Noyes’ “The Highwayman”
  • Origins of the magical water-horses
  • “Weird Florida” as a story setting
  • Little Nothing by Dee Holloway
  • Lamplit Underground (periodical)
  • “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, 1906
  • The musical version I was trying to remember the composer for: Phil Ochs performing his interpretation, originally released on I Ain’t Marching Anymore, 1965
• This month we interview Lianyu Tan and talk about:
  • Winning a Lambda Literary Award as an indie author
  • Singapore and writing as a diasporic author
  • Vampirism/colonialism
  • The attractions of gothic horror
  • ”Choose your own ending”
  • The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan
  • House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
  • Captive in the Underworld by Lianyu Tan
  • Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho

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)

Links to Dee Holloway Online

• Twitter: @_deeholloway
• Instagram: @menshevixen
• Itch.io: menshevixen

Links to Lianyu Tan Online

• Website: LianyuTan.com
• Twitter: @LianyuTan
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