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A New Excerpt from ROSE WITCH

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! —- “I want you,” … Continue reading

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Excerpt from ROSE WITCH

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! —- And Perish kisses … Continue reading

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Nine Years of Love: On Courage, Letters, Gayness and Three Little Words

Nine years ago, I was a strange, weird, over-the-top, enthusiastic, creative writer who was a vegetarian, obsessed with graveyards and falling madly in love with a girl I didn’t know was gay. I was also a dork. THE MORAL OF … Continue reading

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A Craving, a Free YA Short Story — Part of Project Unicorn (A Lesbian YA Extravaganza)

“A Craving,” by Jennifer Diemer YA/Fantasy Snow knows little of the world, having spent most of her life within the safe confines of the cottage she shares with seven little men, her protectors. But every day, a young girl comes … Continue reading

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Wolves of Leaving, a Free YA Short Story — Part of Project Unicorn (A Lesbian YA Extravaganza)

“Wolves of Leaving,” by Sarah Diemer YA/Paranormal After challenging the Alpha–and losing–Cadie begs the girl she loves to forsake all they’ve ever known and escape the tyranny of the pack. (photo by aarrgh) (Part of Project Unicorn: A Lesbian YA … Continue reading

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Witch Girls, a Free YA Short Story — Part of Project Unicorn (A Lesbian YA Extravaganza)

Welcome to Project Unicorn–a fiction project over the course of one year by both me, author Sarah Diemer, and my wife author Jennifer Diemer, to put out, twice weekly (Mondays and Fridays!), free YA stories with lesbian heroines. Today, we … Continue reading

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Why Lesbian YA Stories Are Important: A Dialogue on Project Unicorn by Its Authors

Project Unicorn: A Lesbian YA Extravaganza! is a fiction project created by lesbian YA authors Sarah Diemer and Jennifer Diemer. It was created because of the obvious lack of lesbian heroines in the Young Adult genre, and the critical need … Continue reading

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Hooray, You're GAY! — National Coming Out Day and a Celebration of Your Queerness

So, we kind of GOT LEGALLY MARRIED last week–something I’m going to post about, and in detail, very, very soon, I promise. 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤ We are still coming down from the joyousness that is GETTING LEGALLY MARRIED, and … Continue reading

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The Epidemic

Jamey Rodemeyer lived in my hometown. He was fourteen years old, had a pervasive sense of humor, loved Lady Gaga fiercely and blogged, often, about the fact that he was being mercilessly bullied in school for being gay. He killed … Continue reading

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Read Gay YA, Change the World

There has been a tremendous amount of dialogue this past week about queer books–or lack thereof–in young adult literature. Agents and publishing houses have been vocal in stating their support for publishing books with queer protagonists, which was inspiring and … Continue reading

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