The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

On the Shelf for November 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 356 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

US Politics

Plans for “the book”

Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Linton, Anne E. 2022. Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-1-316-51182-4

Bissa, Errietta M.A. 2013. “Man, Woman or Myth? Gender-bending in Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans” in Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici, No. 70: 79-100

Book Shopping
Carson, Anne. 2002. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho. Vintage Books, New York. ISBN 0-375-72451-6

Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, Eds. 1998. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton University Press, Princeton. ISBN 0-691-01679-8

Further discussion about AI

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
A Witch Willful and Cunning by Esme Marchbank

Confessions of a Former Femme Fatale (The Sapphic '60s #2) by Eve Noble

The Fire Beneath Her Crown by Preeti Setiya

Sweet Amber and Gold by Karen Hunter Watson

The Orchard Blooms Again by Pamela Lynn Goodman

They Taught the Witness to Cry by Colton Matthews

A Truth Unacknowledged by Ellen Crowe

Bloom Town: Genesis (Bloom Town #1) by Ally North

What We Say About Adelaide Bell by Grace Mazza

The Mistress of Blackwood Hall (Blackwood Chronicles #1) by Raven Ashwood

The Scandal of Blackwood Hall (Blackwood Chronicles #2) by Raven Ashwood

The Neighborhood Dames by Laura Stanfill

Sky Roads Home (Edge of the World #2) by Margaret Fridley

The Sewing Club by Stephanie O'Connor

Let the Dead Lie (Dizzy Dixon #2) by Cameron Darrow

What I’ve been consuming
Matrix by Lauren Groff

The Duke by Anna Cowan

Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher

The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker

Call for submissions for the 2027 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 355 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar, narrated 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

Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Why is Intersexuality Relevant to the History of Lesbianism?
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 354 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:

Historic understandings of intersexuality

The intertwined models of sex, gender, and sexual preference

How avoiding homosexuality drove approaches to intersex sex assignment

This topic is discussed in one or more entries of the Lesbian Historic Motif Project here: Intersex

A list of references can be found in the transcript

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

Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

On the Shelf for October 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 353 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

Summer book selling

Spin-off projects from the blog

An interesting new publisher: Lavender Octavo

Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Price of Treason by Corinne Astier

Staying Above the Snakes (Wild Hearts on the Western Frontier #2) by Carmilla Deane

Flora: My Heart Will Pay the Price (Motherline Saga #2) by Amber L. Ricketts

A Divine Comeback by David Imper

A Companion for Miss Ledbury (Fallowmere Novels #2) by Verity Fairbanks

A Fortune for Miss Pomfret (Fallowmere Novels #3) by Verity Fairbanks

Finding Each Other by Faithe Stephens

Finding Freedom by Maggi Petton

What a Lady Wants by Viola Velarossi

Hidden Hearts (Fugitive Hearts #1) by Margaret Fridley

The Corrected Heading by William Ferrier Jr.

The Riveter's Heart by Koda James

The Stolen Women by Alysandra Dutton

Of Her Blood by Rozina Hyland

Beau Scamp by C. M. Harris

Kitty (The Bennet Sisters #1) by T.J. Ryan

Raven by Lyndsay Faye

Where Ashes Bury Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke

Rottenheart by Kat Dunn

My Darling Girls by Marina Scott

The Translator by Annabelle Marx

Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand

Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell

The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain

Angel on Fire by Annette Pritchard

Upstate by Kim van Alkemade

All's Fair in Love and Duty by Sarah Jacklin & Phoebe Rose

Other Titles of Interest
The Soldaderas by Sofia Guadarrama Collado

Death by Misadenture by Jane Bitomsky

Beneath the Stone by Haven Reyes

Last Minute Addition
Ochre, Quarta, or Ivy by Jeannelle M. Ferreira

What I’ve been consuming
The Regency Switch by Helen Gaskell

A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin

Call for submissions for the 2027 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Is Your Sapphic Protagonist Worried About the Wrong Things?
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 352 with Heather Rose Jones
In this episode we talk about:

How to make the conflicts in a sapphic historical romance more realistic

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

Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop

Bluesky: @heatherrosejones

Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)