On the Shelf for November 2025
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 327 with Heather Rose Jones

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

In this episode we talk about:

• Setting up context for this month’s fiction episode


• Additions to the website


• Progress on the Lesbian Historic Motif Project book


• Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog
  
  
  • Pelliccia, Hayden. 1995. “Ambiguity against Ambiguity: Anacreon 13 Again” in Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 20: 23-34.
  
  
  • Davidson, J.F. 1987. “Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos” in Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, Vol. 40, Fasc. 1/2: 132-137.
  
  
  • Petropoulos, J.C.B. 1993. “Sappho the Sorceress: Another Look at fr. 1 (LP)” in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 97: 43-56.
  
  
  • Devereux, George. 1970. “The Nature of Sappho's Seizure in Fr. 31 LP as Evidence of Her Inversion” in The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1: 17-31.
  
  
  • Lardinois, André. 1994. “Subject and Circumstance in Sappho's Poetry” in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. 124: 57-84.
  
  
  • Most, Glenn W. 1995. “Reflecting Sappho” in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Vol. 40: 15-38.
  
  
  • Skinner, M.B. 1989. “Sapphic Nossis” in Arethusa 22:5-18.
  
  
  • Blondell, Ruby and Sandra Boehringer. 2014. “Revenge of the Hetairistria: The Reception of Plato’s Symposium in Lucian’s Fifth DIalogue of the Courtesans.” Arethusa 47: 231-64.
  
  
  
  



• Book Shopping
  
  
  • The A to Z of Charles II’s London 1682
  
  
  • The Whitehall Palace Plan of 1670
  
  
  
  



• Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
  
  
  • No Love for an Outlaw by Kerri Reeves
  
  
  • Twin Flames of Namwon: The Reimagined Love Story of Chunhyang and Cheong by Velis Aenora
  
  
  • Neon Nights by William Ellison
  
  
  • Raised for the Sword by Aimée
  
  
  • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
  
  
  • A Lady for a Highwayman (from Lovers and Liaisons) by Dani Collins
  
  
  • My Mother's Spear by Ishtar Watson
  
  
  • Phoenix (Intertwined Souls #9) by Mary Dee
  
  
  • Ophelia by S.M. Namkoong
  
  
  • Between Two Silences by Shanon O'Brien
  
  
  • The Secret War (Hattie James #3) by Stacy Lynn Miller
  
  
  • The Duke by Anna Cowan
  
  
  • My Darling Clementine (Clementine #1) by Genta Sebastian
  
  
  • Where There's Room for Us by Hayley Kiyoko
  
  
  
  



• Other Titles of Interest
  
  
  • The Fault Mirror by Catherine Fearns
  
  
  • As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel
  
  
  
  



• What I’ve been reading
  
  
  • Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear
  
  
  • A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
  
  
  • Murderbot Series (various titles) by Martha Wells
  
  
  • Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones
  
  
  
  



• Call for submissions for the 2026 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.


• This month we interview Anbara Salam and talk about:
  
  
  • What grounds a story in a specific place and time?
  
  
  • Isolation, claustrophobia, and “things that should be gone but aren’t” as the essence of gothics
  
  
  • Researching queer sexuality in the mid-20th century
  
  
  • Exploring sapphic longing
  
  
  • The importance of not making the central conflict about queerness
  
  
  • The Salvage by Anbara Salam
  
  
  • Belladona by Anbara Salam
  
  
  
  

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 Anbara Salam Online

• Website: anbarasalam.com


• Instagram: @anbarasalam