Boosting the Lesbian History Motif Project and updates

Author Heather Rose Jones (read Daughter of Mystery; trust me. :-) has been working on a fascinating series of posts on lesbian/queer women in history and various kinds of historical fiction (balladry, poetry, etc). She describes her rationale for the Lesbian History Motif Project as "My selection process for data to include is relatively simple: is this something that would be useful in grounding a fictional lesbian character in the context of historic human experience?" The first post is here - you can follow the lhmp tag through the others to the most recent one, in which she does an overview of sources about Julie d' Aubigny, Mademoiselle de Maupin, partially to humor me. :-) At any rate, good stuff so check it out.

I'm making progress on my novel rewrite and may actually get done with this round in the next two weeks. Other Me, Emily L. Byrne (www.writeremilylbyrne.blogspot.com) is having a good run and has had 2 stories accepted in the last week, which is lovely. I'm making progress on my business plan and on accumulating sundry bits of info. And the house is falling apart, right on schedule, so trying to get a handle on that.This week's adventure: broken iron fence railings on the front steps. Sigh. In other news, off to the Fair this weekend (Saturday) and going to my first Grandstand concert (Brother Ali, Doomtree, Bob Mould, etc.). Should be fun!