This week, Andi and Lise chat with F/F fic reviewer extraordinaire Tara Scott, whose reviews you can find at The Lesbian Review, Lambda Literary and Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. She also hosts the podcast Les Do Books at the Lesbian Talk Show. We talk a bit of history of F/F fiction, found out what she\u2019s reading and way into these days, and also what she sees as emerging trends in F/F fiction.
Books that came up in our convo!
Aurora Rey, Recipe for Love (audio and written); Anna Burke, Thorn; Courtney Milan, Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure; Ann Bannon\u2019s Beebo Brinker series (HERSTORY!!!! And Tara chatted with Ann about lesbian pulp fiction on her podcast HERE); Lee Winter, Breaking Character; Elle Spencer, Casting Lacey; Rachel Spangler, In Development; Alyssa Cole, Once Ghosted, Twice Shy.
Authors who write butch characters well: KD Williamson, Jenny Frame, Nell Stark, Rachel Spangler, Brenda Murphy
Other authors who came up: Radclyffe, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Kat Sebastian, Meghan O\u2019Brien
The LGO crew and Tara also recommend Heather Rose Jones\u2019 podcast, The Lesbian Historic Motif, so if you\u2019re looking to write some F/F historical fiction, check it out.
Lise\u2019s shout-out this week was to Hugo-winning N.K. Jemisn\u2019s collection of short stories, How Long \u2018til Black Future Month? Tara\u2019s is for looking forward to reading Tara Muir\u2019s Gideon the 9th, which Andi and Lise love, and Andi\u2019s shout-out is to the fact that she\u2019s currently creating a character for a little DnD!
https://lezgeekoutcast.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/lgo_64_tara_scott.mp3