After completing a correspondence course at the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut Diane wrote children’s stories and poetry. She finished her first novel, Sunflower, a multi-faceted book encompassing geography, math, and folklore. This Native American girl of ten summers, survives the destruction of her village. She is plunged into the white culture, an environment which to her is frequently confusing, often strange and sometimes hostile. As Sunflower struggles to find herself and a balance between the two cultures, she weighs one against the other and takes the best of both. Because of the encouragement, knowledge and skills imparted by her grandmother, Sunflower returns to her people and emerges a confident young woman who readily shares her triumphs. This was published in June 2008.

Research included: Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz American Indians, Myths & Legends, The American Heritage Book of Indians, Jacobson, Daniel Great Indian Tribes, Moyer, John William Famous Indian Chiefs, Richter, Conrad The Light in the Forest, Sterling, Matthew W. Indians of America, Waldo, Anna Lee Sacajawea, Wissler, Clark Indians of the U.S., www.geocities.com/Lenapè.html

Diane's next novel, Johanna, is based on the true story of a German girl during World War II and her struggles to survive when the war came through her town. After several visits to her hometown and the area in Germany, Diane interviewed the woman extensively to help tell her story.

Her third novel, A Matter of Time, is an historical novel of her father an eighteen-year-old watch maker apprentice and his family’s survival of a catastrophic event on December 6, 1917 when two ships collide in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada causing a vast explosion. For this novel Diane traveled to Halifax, spent considerable time searching the archives, found the cemetery where her grandfather and young uncle were buried. She visited the the Citadel, local museums, found the street where her relatives lived, then took the ferry to Dartmouth where her Dad’s family spent their summers and basically walked the walk of her Dad and his family. This was published in December 2007.

Presently Diane is polishing her many children's stories while working on another true story, the harrowing tale of a boy growing up in Tunisia and hopes to have it completed within the year.