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

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
  • Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones
  • Alpennia series by Heather Rose Jones

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)