Longer posts you can really get your teeth into! Including short stories, books extracts, personal essays, and guest articles!
I love Victorian Gothic. One of my favourite novels is Wuthering Heights, I love the bleak moors and the sense of romance and I wanted to write my own lesbian version of a Victorian Gothic that is perhaps a touch more lighthearted! Victorian Gothic horror must have an overbearing mansion, […]
By Deborah Shaw, University of Portsmouth LGBT social media networks were recently buzzing with news that a reboot of The L Word, the lesbian drama that ran for six series between 2004-09, is in the works at Showtime. A tweet from one of the original stars, Jennifer Beals, posted on […]
I wrote this erotic short story nearly ten years ago. It is one of the very first lesbian stories I ever wrote and I originally shared it online in a fanfiction forum and then on my Wattpad profile. But I thought it was time to dig it out of the […]
I’m Niamh Murphy, author of adventure fiction with lesbian main characters, and I love lesbian historical romances! I love adventure fiction, the kind of books where you heart skips a beat when our heroine gets into trouble! I especially love historical adventure books and if they have a touch of […]
By Helena Bassil-Morozow, Glasgow Caledonian University The new BBC comic spy thriller Killing Eve, written by Fleabag author Phoebe Waller-Bridge and based on Luke Jenning’s novel Codename Villanelle, is a whirlwind spy tale of murder, obsession, betrayal and resilience. Its young female antagonist Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a Russian assassin […]
The weather has been searing in the UK over the last few weeks and I have had to resort to wandering the through the dappled light of medieval Sherwood Forest to keep me cool! I’ve been working on the second adventure in the Robyn Hood series, and been having an […]
A (Really Rough) Guide to some of the Problems of Medieval Money and Historical Fiction There is a wealth (Ha!) of information out there about the history of money, coins, and currency. However, that doesn’t make it easy or simple to get to grips with a value system not only […]
To celebrate the relaunch of my most popular novel, Escape to Pirate Island, I thought it would be a fantastic time to talk about the main character in the book and some of the inspirations behind her. If you haven’t read the book yet, don’t worry, I’ll make sure I […]
By Mary Harrod, University of Warwick Three of the most visible popular cultural texts of the past few months, the multiple-Oscar-tipped period film The Favourite, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC crime drama Killing Eve and Sally Rooney’s bestselling debut novel Conversations with Friends, are evidence of a shift whereby queer female identities […]
By Fiona Shaw, Northumbria University, Newcastle You’ll find the corpses of many novels left to rot in the hinterland of film adaptation – and plenty of novelists weeping over them. Films are sometimes very much altered from the novels they are based on. And mostly, in the novelists’ eyes, for […]