Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 35b - Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (part 1)
Sunday, June 9, 2019 - 07:00
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 109 (previously 35b) - Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook (part 1)
(Originally aired 2019/06/09 - listen here)
Transcript Pending.
Show Notes
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. This time we had so much to talk about we split it into two episodes.
In this episode we talk about:
- How the pricing structure of lesbian romance can form a barrier to general readers entering the market
- Decoding how to find books that hit your sweet spot when entering a new reading community
- How the history of lesbian small presses shapes price and content expectations
- Some comparisons between f/f and m/m book communities
- How latent sexism in the romance market affects the acceptance of f/f stories
- Popular m/m and m/f romance authors putting a toe in the waters of f/f romance--what does it mean for f/f-only authors?
- How do we overcome barriers to cross-promotion between siloed reading communities, when recommendation networks don’t overlap
- Lesbian publishing as a “walled garden”--the ups and downs of curated spaces
- Dealing with cross-gender motifs in historical fiction
- Complications of gender and sexuality in historic societies
- How to identify with characters without owning them--resource scarcity and contested spaces
- Three models for communicating queer content in books: the donut shop, the whisper network, and the detailed menu
- Fan fiction and learning acceptance of multiple readings of a text
- Gender dynamics in fan fiction and the distribution of f/f stories
- Envisioning independent women in history--how the sexism of popular media lies to us about the lives of historic women
- Fan fiction generations pre- and post-Xena
- Books and Resources Mentioned
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Links to Heather Online
Links to Anna Clutterbuck-Cook Online