Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
For more info, see my website alpennia.com
Heather Rose Jones
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Folks: if you have a research question about lesbian history for your writing project, two places to start in the Lesbian Historic Motif Project are the index of podcast episodes (alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...) and the lists of content tags for the blog posts (linked in the sidebar of each LHMP post)
New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog. The ways in which historians filter Anne Lister through their own theoretical frameworks.
alpennia.com/blog/every-e...
#Booksky Love this review of Heather’s THE LANGUAGE OF ROSES!
Heather Rose Jones
I am a smidge more forgiving that over half the time, "Lister" comes out as "Lester" or--less plausibly--"lister"
(lower case).
Why does my Apple speech-to-text function insist that "Contant" (capitalized as if a proper noun) is a far more likely interpretation of what I said than "content"? Evidently there *is* a company named Contant, but really now! Are they paying Apple to prioritize that interpretation?
Woohoo sold another Alpennia bundle!
By the way, my book-tabling game owes a lot to the advice and example of @qospress.bsky.social.
Because Britbox is in my current streaming service rotation, I've found myself watching some classic shows. Somehow The Six Wives of Henry VIII feels a bit too on the nose as a political allegory at the moment.
Showing up at Fremont Pride selling books.
New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog. We'll be working through Orr's dissertation for the next couple of weeks. I'm likely to run out of new and interesting ways to introduce the individual posts.
alpennia.com/blog/histori...
Heather Rose Jones
BTW, keep meaning to say the article Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 336 was a big help for the fantasy novel I'm working on (includes women with variations of anatomy). Helped gel some of the very fuzzy ideas rattling around in my brain - so thanks!👍
