Nonfiction books include the following published and unpublished titles:
How to Date in a Post-Dating World, Sasquatch Books, 2006
From how to avoid dating a serial killer to what to do at a snuggle party, How to Date provides single men and women, gay and straight, with a step-by-step road map for navigating today’s romantic quicksand with humor, grace, and aplomb.
Photo courtesy of Adrien Leavitt
Single State of the Union:
Single Women Speak Out on Live, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness,
Seal Press, 2007
Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off? No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making cow eyes at The Bachelor. But what do single women have to say about their own lives? With sass, humor, and style, Single State of the Union paints a provocative, playful, and complex portrait of today’s single woman.
The Dirt on Dating:
Petting bandits, sweetheart scams and other dark chapters from love’s lurid history
Think catfishing is something new? It’s more than a century old, only back then the deceitful heels were known as triflers and matrimonial swindlers. The Dirt on Dating is a darkly comic look at the last 100-plus years of dating, featuring quirky tales of love, larceny, lawsuits, spooning bans, sex policing, swingles, lonely hearts killers, lovers’ lane maniacs and much more. (Sold at auction, then dropped due to recession.)
Manuscript available upon request.
Novels include the following published and unpublished titles:
Fifty Shades of Brains,
co-authored as BF Dealeo
Ambauminable LLC, 2013
A goofy parody of the prurient potboiler set in Seattle during a zombie apocalypse.
Sex. Zombies. Really Annoying Present Tense Narration.
#IMPATIENT:
A dark comedy about
cancer and crime
Dahlia Biggs’ best friend has cancer, but that’s not what’s killing her. Samantha is really dying of insurance denials and delays. Desperate to help, Dahlia and her buddies turn to crime, eventually committing a $1M heist, which goes delightfully south.
They say crime doesn’t pay, but it sure helps cover the cost of treatment.
Manuscript available upon request.
The Monster of Eden
A multigenerational dark fantasy about a ruthless early Seattle businessman who fells a sacred 1,000-year-old red cedar in order to build a grand home, and the resulting havoc it wreaks upon him and his descendants.
It’s not smart to mess with Mother Nature.
Manuscript available upon request.
Diane Mapes just wants to write 