On the Shelf for September 2025 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 323 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: My new book: Skin-Singer: Tales of the Kaltaoven A Worldcon report Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Donoghue, Emma. 2007. “Doing Lesbian History, Then and Now” in Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 33, No. 1, Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality in Global Perspective: 15-22 Lanser, Susan. 1998. “Befriending the Body: Female Intimacies as Class Acts.” in Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 (winter 1998-99): 179-98. Lanser, Susan. 2001. “Sapphic Picaresque: Sexual Difference and the Challenges of Homoadventuring” in Textual Practice 15:2 (November 2001): 1-18. Park, Katharine. 1997. “The Rediscovery of the Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570-1620” in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio. London: Routledge. 171-93. Wagner, Corinna. 2013. Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Political Culture. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 978-1938169-08-3 Vicinus, Martha. 1996. “Turn of the Century Male Impersonation: Rewriting the Romance Plot” in Sexualities in Victorian Britain ed. Andrew Miller and James Adams. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Book Shopping The Transvestite Memoirs by the Abbé de Choisy Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction Of Velvet and Stone by Catherine Martini In the Wings by Charlotte Monet Bound to the Sea by Chloe Clarke The Girl from Berlin by Johanna Weiss Hibernia: An Antiquity Sapphic Romance by Kimia Kore A Lady Called Trouble by Lauren Leigh The Mistress of Hannasbury by M.C. Collins and Susan M. Gaffney The Scandal at Pemberley by Mara Brooks Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti When the Light Pulls You Back by Carey Miller A Murderous Business (A Harriman & Mancini Mystery) by Cathy Pegau Claiming the Tower (Council Mysteries #1) by Celia Lake Tides of Reckoning (Daughters Under the Black Flag - Tides #2) by Eden Hopewell To the Moon and Back by Eve Noble Lady Like by Mackenzi Lee The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet by Melinda Taub The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox I Am You by Victoria Redel Other Titles of Interest Dora Copperfield: A Quiet Bloom by Kit Indigo The Book of Susan by Roxanna di Bella A Flower in Auschwitz by Roxanna di Bella What I’ve been reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details. This month we interview Cathy Pegau A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.) 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 Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Cathy Pegau Online Website: cathypegau.com Instagram: @Cathy_Pegau Bluesky: @cathypegau.bsky.social