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A show about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction. Content note: May include discussions of sex within an academic context.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Interview with Olivia Waite
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 123 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- What attracted her to writing historical stories
- How the Ladies’ Guide started as a straight romance and the contrast in social dynamics
- Exerience versus imagination in writing romance
- Bi representation in romance
- Figuring out how your characters understand their sexuality
- What it’s like to publish f/f romance with a mainstream publisher
- The experience of being a bisexual woman reading lesfic
- Classical erotic literature and the range of sexual experiences
- Trying to get into the heads (or other organs) of people in history
- The next two books in the “Feminine Pursuits” series
- Books mentioned
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 Olivia Waite Online
- Website: oliviawaite.com
- Twitter: @O_Waite
- Instagram: o_wow_waite
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
On the Shelf for September 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 122 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- My trip to Ireland and Worldcon
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Articles from The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation
- Classics in the field of the history of gender and sexuality (specific titles TBD)
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Olivia Waite
- New and forthcoming fiction
- Under the Microscope by Kim Finney (Cygneture Books)
- Worlds Apart by Stein Willard
- Beggar’s Flip by Benny Lawrence (Bedazzled Ink)
- Les révolutions d'Olympe by Le Jardin de Sappho
- Outlaw: A Lesbian Retelling of Robyn Hood by Niamh Murphy
- Prairie Hearts by JB Marsden (Sapphire Books)
- Bloomsbury’s Late Rose: A Novel by Pen Pearson (Chickadee Prince Books)
- Stage Dreams by Melanie Gilman (Graphic Universe)
- Somewhere Along the Way by Kathleen Knowles (Bold Strokes Books)
- Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (Knopf)
- Sappho’s Soapbox: Mainstream historic fantasy featuring queer women
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
The Black Handkerchief by Gwen C. Katz
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 121 with Heather Rose Jones
The third story in our 2019 fiction series.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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 Gwen C. Katz Online
- Website: gwenckatz.com
- Twitter: @gwenckatz
Links to Lara Zielinsky Online
- Twitter: @lczielinsky
- Facebook: AuthorLaraZielinsky
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Postcards from Worldcon
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 120 with Heather Rose Jones
A collection of micro-interviews recorded live at Worldcon in Dublin, Ireland.
Recommendations and shout-outs from:
- Adri Joy
- Freya Marske
- Everina Maxwell
- Liz Bourke
- Jennifer Mace
- Sara Uckelman
- Katri
- @fromankyra
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Bosom Sex
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 119 with Heather Rose Jones
The lives and loves of two African-American women in the post Civil War era, as discovered in their correspondence.
In this episode we talk about:
- Who were Addie Brown ad Rebecca Primus?
- What did their families and communities think about their relationship?
- The ways in which individual histories can surprise us.
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Addie Brown & Rebecca Primus
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Interview with Penny Mickelbury
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 118 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The difference between writing contemporary mysteries and historic romance
- Getting inside the heads of an interracial couple in the 19th century
- Hints of a coming sequel
- The joy of being able to write the books that thrill you
- Books mentioned
- Two Wings to Fly Away - a historical mystery of the 1850s with a f/f romance
- Belle City - a family saga set across the 20th century with an interracial couple (m/f)
- The Mimi and Gianna series (4 books) - contemporary mystery/thriller with a f/f romance
- The Carole Ann Gibson series (4 books) - contemporary mystery/thriller
- Gods Will and Other Lies - a story collection about women of a certain age
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 Penny Mickelbury Online
- Website: https://www.pennymickelbury.com
- Email: mysteries@pennymickelbury.com
- Twitter: @PennyMickelbury
- Facebook: Penny Mickelbury
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
On the Shelf for August 2019
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 117 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly update on what the Lesbian Historic Motif Project has been doing.
In this episode we talk about:
- Your podcast host at Worldcon in Ireland
- Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
- Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112
- Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler (eds). 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6
- Clark, Anna (ed). 2011. The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader. New York: Routledge.
- Announcing this month’s author guest, Penny Mickelbury
- Announcing this month's fiction episode: "The Black Handkerchief" by Gwen C. Katz
- New and forthcoming fiction
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- The Pages of Adeena by C. M. Castillo
- Jobyna's Blues by Jane Alden
- Paris for Two: Til Death Do We Part by Dolores Maggiore
- The Snow Queen by Amy Selvidge
- The Moss House by Clara Barley
- Valerie: or, the Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner)
- A Summer of Fever and Freedom by Chelsey Engel
- A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
- The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor
- Heroine of Her Own Life by Constance Emmett
- Call for submissions for the 2020 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Swinging Singles and Lesbian Opportunities
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 116 with Heather Rose Jones
A consideration of how the study of single women's lives is relevant to the writing of lesbian historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Some of the myths about women's lives in the past
- How geography, class, and circumstance affected women's likelihood of remaining single
- Some specific strategies for keeping your fictional characters single without the need for special pleading
- Useful books on singlewomen studies
- Bennett, Judith M. & Amy M. Froide eds. 1999. Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. ISBN 0-8122-1668-7
- Beattie, Cordelia. 2007. Medieval Single Women: The Politics of Social Classification in Late Medieval England. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-928341-5
- Froide, Amy. 2005. Never Married: Singlewomen in Early Modern England. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Amtower, Laurel and Dorothea Kehler (eds). 2003. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe. ISBN 0-06698-306-6
- Staples, Kate Kelsey. 2011. Daughters of London: Inheriting Opportunity in the Late Middle Ages. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-9004203112
- This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Singlewomen
A transcript of this podcast is available here.
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)
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Book Appreciation with KJ Charles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 115 with Heather Rose Jones
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting.
- Books mentioned
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 KJ Charles Online
- Website: kjcharleswroter.com
- Twitter: @kj_charles
- Facebook: KJ Charles Chat (group)
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Interview with KJ Charles
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 114 with Heather Rose Jones
A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.
In this episode we talk about:
- The delights of Edwardian genre fiction: country house murders and spies
- The attractions of writing romance protagonists with wealth and power
- Why KJ will never write about dukes
- How does “happily ever after” differ for f/f and m/m romances in history?
- The economics of women opting out of marriage
- Historical fiction as a way to avoid dealing with mobile phones in your plot
- Why KJ tackled an f/f romance
- The economics of reading and publishing f/f historicals
- Different flavors of f/f romance
- Trying to write political disaster fiction in the middle of a political disaster
- Books mentioned
- Proper English by KJ Charles
- Think of England by KJ Charles (in same series but with m/m romance)
- Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
- A Lady’s Desire by Lily Maxton
- A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian
- A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
- Spectred Isle by KJ Charles
- Last Couple in Hell (forthcoming) by KJ Charles (sequel to Spectred Isle)
- Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles (m/m)
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 KJ Charles Online
- Website: kjcharleswriter.com
- Twitter: @kj_charles
- Facebook: KJ Charles Chat (group)