Diane represents nonfiction writers in the areas of advice/relationships, self-help, health and wellness (including medical for a trade audience), memoir, narrative nonfiction, lifestyle, how-to, women’s issues, inspirational, and humor.

Recent sales include Getting Past Your Breakup by Susan J. Elliott (Da Capo); The Forever Box by Kristin Clark Taylor (Berkley); The Art of Comforting by Val Walker (Tarcher); Read, Remember, Recommend by Rachelle Rogers Clark (Sourcebooks); August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey into the Storm by Barbara Walsh (Globe Pequot, forthcoming 2011); Ponce’s Dream: The Promise of Predictive Health by Kenneth L. Brigham and Michael M. E. Johns (Basic, forthcoming 2011); Confronting Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer by Sue Friedman, DVM, Rebecca Sutphen, MD, and Kathy Steligo (Johns Hopkins, forthcoming 2011); Sammy in the Sky by Barbara Walsh, illustrated by Jamie Wyeth (Candlewick, forthcoming 2011); Show Me Good Land by Shonna Milliken Humphrey (Down East Books); Bufflehead Sisters by Patricia DeLois (Berkley).

Diane has been in the book publishing business her entire career: owner/manager of a publishing services company providing book packaging, editing, and production services to major publishers including Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, and Harvard Business Press; book production supervisor at Addison-Wesley; book editor/editorial coordinator at U.S. News & World Report; and book direct mail/promotion coordinator at Time-Life Books. She has a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois, Champaign.

Diane accepts e-mail submissions only.

Please note that she is not considering unsolicited fiction submissions at this time.

Send queries to “Diane [at] fineprintlit [dot] com”.