Heather Rose Jones is the author of the Alpennia historic fantasy series: an alternate-Regency-era Ruritanian adventure revolving around women’s lives woven through with magic, alchemy, and intrigue. Her short fiction has appeared in Sword and Sorceress, Lace and Blade, and at Podcastle.org. Heather blogs about research into lesbian-like motifs in history and literature at the Lesbian Historic Motif Project and has a podcast covering the field of lesbian historical fiction which has recently expanded into publishing audio fiction. She works as an industrial failure investigator in biotech pharmaceuticals which is about as science-fictional as you can get these days.