Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Episode 47b - Interview with Amy Hoff

Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 162 (previously 47b) - Interview with Amy Hoff

(Originally aired 2020/06/13 - listen here)

Transcript pending.

Show Notes

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

In this episode we talk about:

Time machines and Scottish highland warriors
Why a Scottish historian and folklorist created a trope-salad
Digging into some of the less commonly used parts of Scottish history
The othering of Scottish culture and how romantic myths erased their actual history
How being a drifter on the American highway led to a love of road folklore which led to monsters
How Brexit drove Amy to the Canary Islands by way of the Cannes Film Festival
Tenerife: the sum of all the places Amy has loved
Amy’s monster movies
Why Amy used a cross-time frame in My Heart’s in the Highlands
How looking at queer people in history can give hope for modern struggles
Sources of Norse and Irish history that inspired Amy’s writing
Books mentioned