Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 51b/179 – Interview with Samantha Rajaram
Saturday, October 10, 2020 - 07:00
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 179 (previously 51b) - Interview with Samantha Rajaram
(Originally aired 2020/10/10 - 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:
- How the anti-miscegenation policy of the Dutch East India Company inspired the story
- Starting with characters and finding their stories
- The experience of finding your place in the world
- The difficulty of researching sexuality in the 17th century
- Samantha’s complex professional history and how it feeds into her writing
- Growing up as the only Indian family in a Wyoming town
- Samantha’s experience in Pitch Wars and finding/being a mentor
- Differing expectations in different genre cultures
- Books mentioned
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Links to Heather Online
Links to Samantha Rajaram Online