Jennifer Diemer's Blog

Imagine a future America where being gay is punishable by death.

Piper doesn’t have to imagine. She lives it.

Adopted siblings Piper and Easton aren’t careless. Their parents raised them with the knowledge that if they ever give themselves away, they’ll be sent to the Borstal, a dilapidated prison where deviant children–Recreants–undergo brutal treatments to cure them of their “sins.” By command of Liberty’s leader, Voice Wright, if the Recreants fail to be cured, or are ever caught committi...

Lots of changes coming to this site. :) There’s a lot of stuff that’s out of date, and it’s going to be fixed hopefully sooner, rather than later!

Basically, this is a place holder, and a blowing-off-the-dust sort of thing. :)

Warmly,
S.E. Diemer

Excerpt from my upcoming novel, ROSE WITCH: the lesbian, YA retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” in verse. COMING SOON! Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when ROSE WITCH is released!

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“I want you,” Grace tells
the spiraled girl,
the freezing girl,
the monstrous girl,
“to live.”

From the depths & darkness
of the frozen mud,
from the irreversible act
of forever sleep,
Perish rises.

Excerpt from my upcoming novel, ROSE WITCH: the lesbian, YA retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” in verse. COMING SOON! Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when ROSE WITCH is released!

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And Perish kisses
a star.

Later, that is how she will
come to think of it.
All that came before
& after that kiss
are as separate as two lives.

Before, there was only darkness.

And after?

Well.

Then came the light.

It’s coming.

For every girl who was ever told that she wasn’t good enough, beautiful enough, strong enough, brave enough, quiet enough, comes a story of a girl named Perish…a girl who is none of those things. Perish is an angry girl. A girl who will carve out a place to live in a world that does not want her. A girl who, despite a world against her…will learn to thrive.

Imagine “Beauty and the Beast” with a lesbian protaganist. Imagine a POC Beauty. Imagine a dark carnival of a palace, a bea...

“Mightier,” by Sarah Diemer
YA/Dark Fantasy
Cleois one of the Mightier, a mysterious group of people who can change the world with the stroke of a pen. But, one night, her new powers are tested when an angel-like creature needs her help to prevent a massive disaster from happening.

(photo by Kathryn Denman)

(Part of Project Unicorn: A Lesbian YA Extravaganza, full of free, original, never-before-published YA short stories featuring a lesbian heroine. Also, every story is a work of genre fict...

Jenn and I are doing a lot of stuff differently this year. Writing is this wonderful, all-encompassing thing in our lives (I try to–no joke–get 100K written every month, and MOST MONTHS I GET PRETTY DAMN CLOSE, just to give you an idea ;D), and as we start to write more YA again, we’re putting our creative resources more towards our YA work, too. This means that we have fewer resources for other creative endeavors, and–in order to flourish–we need to know when it’s time to end certain things....

A really amazing fan, Touweny, contacted me about a year ago, offering to translate The Dark Wife into French. Very much a labor of love, the translation is now completed–and, like its English counterpart–will now be offered for free so that everyone can have access to books with lesbian protagonists. :)

Please enjoy!

Find out aboutThe Dark Wifein English here, and buy a copy of the book here.

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Traduit par Touweny

Il y a trois mille ans, un dieu a dit un mensonge. Maintenant, seule une dé...

So, almost two years later, we take up the…ah…swordagain. :) Project Unicorn: A Lesbian YA Extravaganza (a project of [eventually] ONE HUNDREDfree genre YA short stories featuring lesbian heroines!) is (slowly!) starting up again until it’s finished!

The month that we were currently on (when we went on hiatus) was on the theme of “Swords and Spaceships.” We both had all of the stories finished for this one (two years ago!), but they needed to be edited. They will now come out until the month’...