You🫵choose the Halloween sale! 🎃

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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast

I had an amazing time talking with Heather Rose Jones on her wonderful and detailed podcast about queer women in history and historic literature, plus coverage of the field of sapphic historical fiction.

Here’s the link to the episode, Episode 325: On the Shelf for October 2025. The interview with myself starts at 26 minutes in.

After we finished the interview, we kept chatting for another hour! It turns out that Heather is also in the SCA, so we had a of shared experiences and overlapping interests. It was actually really good that I hadn’t stalked her too hard before the interview, because after it was, over, I googled her name and realized that I’ve been using resources that she put online about historic sewing methods for years. If I’d know it was that Heather Rose Jones, I would have been all fan-girly and tongue-tied 🤓🤪

The Spooky Geek Faire is only FIVE days away! 🗓️⁠

Featuring vendors with one-of-a-kind art pieces, handmade plush, illustrations, comics, books, and more! ⁠No sign-up or entrance fee are necessary to attend.

Sunday, October 19th from 12 PM to 5 PM at Pandemonium Books & Games 4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139

I WILL be bringing my famous mulled cider again this year, so come down, buy any of the books from the series that you are missing or get your books signed, and have a glass of cider and hang out in one of the coolest places in the Boston Area!

Author-y stuff

I discovered over my time doing vending that the old first person description on the back of my novels was turning some potential customers off, so I took a moment to make new back-of-book text and to add some wonderful new blurbs to the cover as well. I’m really happy how it came out—here’s a video of me unboxing them and you can see the delight on my face!

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Oct 23^rd will be a special Halloween LIVE with Paulette Kennedy

Paulette is brilliant fucking author, and if you haven’t read anything by her yet, you have a real treat in story for you. She writes this kind of historical feminist gothic fiction that is absolutely addictive. It’s hard to say which my favorite of her books is, but I am deeply fond of The Artist of Blackberry Grange, which (I think) is the most delightfully escapist of all her work. Her newest project is still available in Kickstarter, as part of the Once Upon A Gothic set, and it’s a retelling of Dracula from the eyes of one of Dracula’s brides. I had the privilege of reading it as an advance review copy and it’s soooooo good. You should definitely check the set out.

Anyway, now that I’ve given Paulette due adulation, I’m so excited to announce that I get to hang out with her (and all of you) on October 23^rd on her page on Instagram, doing an IG live to talk about vampires and Halloween and Things That Go Bump In The Night. This newsletter won’t be published again until after the 23^rd , so I recommend that you either go follow Paulette or keep an eye on my IG page, as I will be posting a notification there before showtime.

The last time we talked was a really excellent conversation, but in the year intervening we’ve gotten to know each other better and had this deeply satisfactory mutual appreciation society develop 🥰 so this year the discussion is going to be absolutely next level, two literary geeks just feeding off each other’s intelligence and having a blast with it, so seriously, don’t miss it!

And Now It’s Time! YOU Choose the Halloween Sale! 🫵

I couldn’t make up my mind on which book(s) should go on sale this Halloween. And then I thought, “You know, the Newsletter Readers always know best: Ask Them!” So that’s exactly what I’m doing. Are you missing a book from the series? Need one to give as a gift? It’s like “Trick or Treat” only it’s just the treat 😁

Finally, I did that video for Banned Books week that I talked about in the last newsletter. Here it is. I got a little passionate as I was making it, so when I start talking about your first amendment rights, I actually surprised myself by getting really heated, which you can actually see. I knew I cared deeply about this topic, but was not expecting to get so passionate on camera like that!

For those of you who have read this far, I’m YOUR fan, you glorious and fantastic creature! 😍 Until two weeks from now, be good or be good at it!😘

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