Diamond Parker Stone’s author portrait at a desk

About the author

She reads
the fine print.

Diamond Parker Stone writes for people whose lives are more complicated than their paperwork suggests.

Her contemporary fiction explores desire and the strange private rules people build around themselves. Work gets personal. Intimacy acquires conditions. Everyone has their own idea of what counts as a reasonable arrangement.

She is especially interested in what happens when ordinary life gets bureaucratic, when bureaucracy gets personal, and when everyone involved decides to keep going anyway.

Diamond Parker Stone

From the writing desk

A story worth staying for.

Read the opening of Terms of Occupancy.

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