The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

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)

On the Shelf for September 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 351 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

My non-fiction book The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category

Resources for the Anthropic class action settlement
Authors Guild explainer

Writer Beware resource page

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
The Copper Line (Still Sisters #1) by Gabi Prevot

The Bitter Cut (Still Sisters #2) by Gabi Prevot

The First Tin (Still Sisters #0.1) by Gabi Prevot

The Yard Light (Still Sisters #0.2) by Gabi Prevot

The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald

Locusta by Emily Dexter

Sweet Mother, I Cannot Weave by T.D. Cloud

Empress, Goddess by Morgan H. Owen

My Betterhalf: A Novel of the Ladies of Llangollen by Genevieve Sinclair

A Study in Silence by Elizabeth Louise

A Match for Lady Adelaide by Verity Fairbanks

Time Never Waits (Chathom Chronicles # 1) by Samantha Calcott & Melinda Lauer

Her Lady's Companion by Odette Valehart

The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror (Crooked Medium #2) by Stephen Cox

A Ruin of Roses by Corinne Astier

The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson by Mattea Orr

A Deadly Entanglement (Harriman & Mancini Mystery #2) by Cathy Pegau

The Borderless Sky by Kim Kirkley

The Marigold Room by Josephine Bray

You Made Me Love You by K D Jensen

The Quiet Fields by Zinnia Bradley

Other Books of Interest
Crazy Woman (The Crazy Woman #1) by K'Anne Meinel

Women of Adventure (The Crazy Woman #2) by K'Anne Meinel

Hearts on the Table by Susan Metallo

What I’ve been consuming
How to Fake it in Society by K.J. Charles

The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

A Murderous Business by Cathy Pegau

Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher

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)

Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 350 with Heather Rose Jones
This quarter’s fiction episode presents Love for Love’s Sake by Shannon Lippert, 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)

Links to Shannon Lippert Online

Website: shannonlippert.wordpress.com

Bluesky: @shannonxl.bsky.social

On the Shelf for August 2026
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 349 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

A brief recap of the podcast’s history.

Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
Roulston, Chris & Caroline Gonda, eds. 2023. Decoding Anne Lister: From the Archives to ‘Gentleman Jack’ . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781009280723

Blumreich, Kathleen M. “Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence,” in Arthuriana 7:2 (1997): 47-62.

Paton, Lucy Allen. 1907. “The Story of Grisandole: A Study in the Legend of Merlin” in PMLA vol. 22, no. 2. pp.234-276.

Schleiner, Winfried. 1992. “Le feu caché: Homosocial Bonds Between Women in a Renaissance Romance” in Renaissance Quarterly 45: 293-311.

Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
Bodhi and Gwen by Del Robertson

The Education of Miss Pryce by Hannah Briar

The Language of Flowers (Lavender Society #1) by Hannah Briar

The Lost Brontë by Catherine Friend

Going Down at the Point by Kimberlee Jarrett Wilson

The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls by Jessica Spotswood

The Keeper's Light (Edge of the World #1) by Margaret Fridley

The Tailor's Treasure by Alison McKenzie

The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by M.K. Hardy

Call for submissions for the 2026 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)