Yeah, this time I got nothing.
Yeah, this time I got nothing.
The contracts have been sent out and returned, so it’s time to announce the 2025 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction line-up! Thank you to everyone who submitted.
When I had my choices narrowed down to the top six, I realized that I could take them all. Two stories were short enough that, when combined, they still met the 5000 word limit of my budget. And when I checked the calendar, I realized that I also needed a story for January 2026 (a 3-shows month).
So here is the line-up, in alphabetical order by title. (Release schedule has yet to be determined.)
I'd meant to roll out the articles in this collection a bit more regularly, but -- having written them all up -- I keep forgetting to post them! Here you go.
Because I don't have enough distractions at the moment, I'm working on a couple of retrospective tasks related to the Project. One is an editorial review of all previous publication blogs to make sure that my commentary that is directly related to the publication is located in a field that will always be viewable in conjunction with the publication. When designing the back end of the Project, we...um...sort of overcomplicated things.
(Originally aired 2025/02/01 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for February 2025.
So...um...I almost forgot I had this all written up but hadn't posted it yet. Then I was drawing up the script for the February "On the Shelf" podcast and when I came to discuss the publications on the blog, I panicked, thinking that I'd managed to delete my notes on the book. No, the blog was already written, but just waiting in queue. Whew. So here it is (slightly out of numerical order).
When I review a thematic collection of academic papers, there are several possible outcomes. The entire collection is relevant and I blog each one in turn. A few papers aren’t relevant, but I blog the entire collection for completeness’ sake. Only a few papers are relevant and I only blog those. Or it turns out that none of the papers are relevant and I move on without blogging. Well, it turns out there’s a fifth option: none of the papers are relevant and I want to blog about that to let people know not to bother.
I love doing the podcast poetry episodes, but I need to catch up on blogging the sources I used!
(Originally aired 2025/01/19 - listen here)
Introduction
Sometimes I choose publications to blog based on a topic I'm currently working on, sometimes it's just a matter of picking the next title that I have loaded into my iPad to read. This is the latter case.