Interview with Samantha Rajaram - The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 179

2020-10-22

Interview with Samantha Rajaram The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 179 with Heather Rose Jones A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women. In this episode we talk about: How the anti-miscegenation policy of the Dutch East India Company inspired the story Starting with characters and finding their stories The experience of finding your place in the world The difficulty of researching sexuality in the 17th century Samantha’s complex professional history and how it feeds into her writing Growing up a...

Interview with Samantha Rajaram The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 179 with Heather Rose Jones

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

How the anti-miscegenation policy of the Dutch East India Company inspired the story
Starting with characters and finding their stories
The experience of finding your place in the world
The difficulty of researching sexuality in the 17th century
Samantha’s complex professional history and how it feeds into her writing
Growing up as the only Indian family in a Wyoming town
Samantha’s experience in Pitch Wars and finding/being a mentor
Differing expectations in different genre cultures
Books mentioned
- The Company Daughters by Samantha Rajaram

A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts are added as available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online