They didn’t care because they didn’t know. That’s not true for everyone, but it’s an important trend to notice. People have admitted to me before that they never cared about gay rights, or even thought about gay issues, because they didn’t know anyone who was gay. When you see the gay rights struggle on the news, it’s often easy to relegate the GLBT to a small counter culture that’s not immediately relevant to you, or even important.
Not just my book, or maybe not even my book–but straight people need to read gay books. To which I respond, yes, straight people absolutely need to read it. When sharing my happiness for the book release, I get the shifting from foot to foot, the nervous tapping of the fingers together, and–if they’re brave–the person will ask me the following question: Thirty young adult short stories featuring lesbian heroines.I just released my debut novel, The Dark Wife, which comes out of the closet immediately when I tell you what it’s about: a YA, lesbian retelling of the Persephone/Hades myth. (The cover for The Dark Wife was designed and illustrated by the incomparable artist, Laura Diemer~ <3)Ī dark fantasy YA with a lesbian heroine. Have a Goodreads account? You can add The Dark Wife here! The Dark Wife is a labor of love, created to be enjoyed by those it was meant to find. It is offered as a free download in the hopes that everyone who needs to read it will be able to do so. – on Smashwords (for eReaders/reading online)Īlso available for free download to share and read online, and as a free audio book and free French translation. It won the 2012 Golden Crown Literary Award for Speculative Fiction. The Dark Wife is a YA novel, a lesbian revisionist retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny.īut Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. Zeus calls Hades “lord” of the dead as a joke. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want–except for freedom. Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie.
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