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Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 40b - Interview with Heather Rose Jones

Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 07:00

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 131 (previously 40b) - Interview with Heather Rose Jones

(Originally aired 2019/11/09 - listen here)

Transcript pending.

Show Notes

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

  • What are the advantages to setting stories in an invented country like Alpennia?
  • The roots of Heather’s love for language and history
  • Themes and tropes in the Alpennia books
  • Why weren’t the books written as romances?
  • Complex intersections of gender and sexuality in the books
  • Queer coming of age in the 19th century
  • What books inspired the Alpennia series?
  • Why a laundry maid as a protagonist? Writing precarious lives.
  • Touch-points for writing historic disasters and sowing seeds of revolution
  • Why write a stand-alone book in the middle of a series?
  • Why write in first versus third person?
  • Finding the people of color in Alpennia
  • Planting story-seeds to harvest in later books
  • What’s next for the Alpennia series?
  • Giving characters failure modes
  • What else does Heather want to write?
  • Books mentioned

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

Links to Heather Online

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Publications: 
historical