About
Writer | Author | Inner Activist
Diane worked at major and indie record companies, managed a band, and freelanced as a music publicist. She is co-founder of The Relay, a fanzine on The Who, which is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She’s attended thousands of concerts.
During her sometimes-surreal career, Diane also founded the nonprofit Change Food, worked to shut down factory farms, organized and spoke at major TED/TEDx events, and executive produced The Meatrix, a Webby Award winner. She has studied with many spiritual teachers, including The Dalai Lama.
Diane has a Masters in Creative Writing and is currently focused on writing fiction. Her fictional novel Rock Gods & Messy Monsters was published Sept 2022 and hard launched October 2023.
In late 2020, after 30 years living in downtown Manhattan and the East Village, Diane moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When not at her computer creating, you can find her hiking, road tripping, or gazing at the stars. The real ones.
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is published by WholeHealthyGroup.com
Featured Work
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
(...in a 1990s record company!)
Aliens have hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex’s dream job has turned into a nightmare.
What should she do?
It's the 1990s. Alex arrives at Acht Records, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss's walls. It goes downhill from there.
Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is a humorous story about life inside a record company. Yet between the lines of satire and nods to science fiction, the book is a thought-provoking female narrative and social commentary on the corporate world.
Join Alex as she weaves through a comedic cast of characters and down crazed corridors of power, where her boss attempts to thwart her at every turn.
The 1990s New York City music scene never seemed so alien, yet so familiar.
Carol Anderson from the US Review of Books captures its essence perfectly: "The novel is so perverse it causes one to laugh out loud at the deranged storyline and detailed descriptions. This is truly satire at its best."
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- Finalist, 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction Humor)
- IndieBRAG Medallion 2023 Honoree
- Top 30 Impressive Indie Books of 2022 from Independent Book Review
- #1 Hot New Release Amazon Kindle in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture and Pop Culture Music (Sept 2022)
- Recommended Review – The US Review of Books
- Starred Review, Independent Book Review (Oct 2022)
