On the Shelf for October 2026 - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 353

On the Shelf for October 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 353 with Heather Rose Jones

Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.

In this episode we talk about:

• Summer book selling
• Spin-off projects from the blog
• An interesting new publisher: Lavender Octavo
• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  • DeVun, Leah. 2020. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-2311-9551-5
• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  • The Price of Treason by Corinne Astier
  • Staying Above the Snakes (Wild Hearts on the Western Frontier #2) by Carmilla Deane
  • Flora: My Heart Will Pay the Price (Motherline Saga #2) by Amber L. Ricketts
  • A Divine Comeback by David Imper
  • A Companion for Miss Ledbury (Fallowmere Novels #2) by Verity Fairbanks
  • A Fortune for Miss Pomfret (Fallowmere Novels #3) by Verity Fairbanks
  • Finding Each Other by Faithe Stephens
  • Finding Freedom by Maggi Petton
  • What a Lady Wants by Viola Velarossi
  • Hidden Hearts (Fugitive Hearts #1) by Margaret Fridley
  • The Corrected Heading by William Ferrier Jr.
  • The Riveter's Heart by Koda James
  • The Stolen Women by Alysandra Dutton
  • Of Her Blood by Rozina Hyland
  • Beau Scamp by C. M. Harris
  • Kitty (The Bennet Sisters #1) by T.J. Ryan
  • Raven by Lyndsay Faye
  • Where Ashes Bury Her (The Women of Sapphire #1) by L. Creeke
  • Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
  • My Darling Girls by Marina Scott
  • The Translator by Annabelle Marx
  • Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand
  • Venus, Vanishing by Rebecca Birrell
  • The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain
  • Angel on Fire by Annette Pritchard
  • Upstate by Kim van Alkemade
  • All's Fair in Love and Duty by Sarah Jacklin & Phoebe Rose
• Other Titles of Interest
  • The Soldaderas by Sofia Guadarrama Collado
  • Death by Misadenture by Jane Bitomsky
  • Beneath the Stone by Haven Reyes
• Last Minute Addition
  • Ochre, Quarta, or Ivy by Jeannelle M. Ferreira
• What I’ve been consuming
  • The Regency Switch by Helen Gaskell
  • A Lady's Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin
• Call for submissions for the 2027 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.

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)