The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

By Heather Rose Jones

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.... more

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October 09, 2020Interview with Olivia Waite - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 123
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
The Ladies’ Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
Rule Breaker by Cathy Pegau
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole (m/f historical romance)
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
...more
30min
October 09, 2020On the Shelf for September 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 122
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
“Why are There So Many Books about Time-Traveling Lesbians?” by Amal El-Mohtar
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)
...more
18min
October 08, 2020The Black Handkerchief by Gwen C. Katz - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 121
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
...more
32min
October 08, 2020Postcards from Worldcon - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 120
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
Nerds of a Feather Flock Together (website)
The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang
Freya Marske
Be the Serpent (podcast)
The Covert Captain by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Everina Maxwell
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (forthcoming in 2021)
Liz Bourke
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (forthcoming in 2020)
Jennifer Mace
Julie d’Aubigny (Wikipedia entry)
Julie d’Aubigny (link page)
Sara Uckelman
Short Reviews of Short SFF (website)
Katri
Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones
Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield
@fromankyra
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones
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)
...more
11min
October 08, 2020Bosom Sex - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 119
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)
...more
9min
October 08, 2020Interview with Penny Mickelbury - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 118
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: [email protected]
Twitter: @PennyMickelbury
Facebook: Penny Mickelbury
...more
28min
October 08, 2020On the Shelf for August 2019 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 117
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
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)
...more
17min
October 07, 2020Swinging Singles and Lesbian Opportunities - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 116
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)
...more
14min
October 07, 2020Book Appreciation with KJ Charles - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 115
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
Spring Flowering by Farah Mendlesohn
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan
A Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite
Alpennia Series by Heather Rose Jones
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)
...more
8min
October 07, 2020Interview with KJ Charles - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 114
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)
...more
30min

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