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At the end of May, the Lesbian Historic Motif Project is going to go on hiatus for a while in terms of new material. I'll have been keeping it up for an entire year and I certainly plan to continue with it in some form. But I'm having some work-flow issues with getting seriously to work on the new novels, and keep up with the LHMP schedule is one big part of that. I sat down and calculated that if I plan to complete a first draft of Mother of Souls by the end of the year, I need to write a chapter per week. It's doable, but only if it's my primary non-day-job focus.

So here's the deal: I'll be re-running some of my favorite entries. I'll do updates of the thematic lists. I may do some essays on themes and directions that emerged during the past year's research. Maybe I'll post "to do" lists of publications. But I'm not going to have the time to read new research material until I have my writing schedule stabilized.

And I've already had people inquiring about keeping the project going with guest-posts. Guest contributions to the Project are certainly welcome. (The one guest-post series I've already done was fabulous, once I could convince the author to let me use it!) If you're interested in blogging on a publication I haven't covered yet, by all means contact me about it. But I won't have the time and energy to go running after people to solicit contributions or to follow up on queries after I say I'm interested.

I have enough experience to know what that means. I'm not some Big Name Blogger to have people battering down the doors in hopes of a chance to contribute. My one hope is that people won't entirely forget about the project once the flow of new material stops. It has been very difficult to tell how wide and deep the interest has been in this blog series. Much like my novels, it seems to have a small number of enthusiastic fans and beyond that it's all guess-work.