Heather Rose Jones is the author of Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage, the first two novels in a historic fantasy series set in an alternate early 19th century. Her short fiction has primarily appeared in Science Fiction/Fantasy markets, including stories in the Sword and Sorceress anthology series, and most recently a queer take on the medieval Welsh Mabinogi, published in both print and audio formats by Podcastle.org. She publishes an ongoing blog The Lesbian Historic Motif Project covering research of interest to authors writing historically-based lesbian characters (hrj.livejournal.com). Heather has a PhD from U.C. Berkeley in Linguistics and works as an industrial discrepancy investigator for a major biotech pharmaceutical company. Twitter: @heatherosejones, Web: alpennia.com