Diane Freed represents both nonfiction and fiction writers.  She is looking for nonfiction projects in the categories of advice/relationships, spirituality, inspiration, health/fitness, memoir, narrative nonfiction, popular culture, lifestyle, women’s issues, the environment, and humor.  Her fiction interests generally are commercial and literary fiction, including women’s commercial fiction.

Diane has been in the book publishing field her entire career, and with FinePrint since 2006, working closely with authors to edit and produce their work.  As a book packager in the Boston area, Diane owned and managed an independent publishing services company, providing editorial and production services to major book publishers, including Addison-Wesley/Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Harvard Business School Press.  Prior to this she was a production supervisor of trade computer books at Addison-Wesley.  At U.S. News & World Report, Diane edited a reference book on the Vietnam War and supervised editorial production of a book series on the human body.  She has coordinated book promotional campaigns for Time-Life Books.  At Wellesley College, Diane facilitated a book publishing collaboration that incorporated Stone Center theory of women’s development into college texts.  Diane has a B.S. in journalism from the University of Illinois.

Diane accepts e-mail submissions only.