Diane Mapes

Seattle, WA USA
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Professional Experience

As a freelance journalist, I cover health, lifestyle, and singles issues, with essays and reported pieces on everything from swingers to singles’ rights, compulsive hoarding to hair loss, Botox to bedwetting, freak magnets to Valentines from hell. Books include a dating manual for the modern mangled single, HOW TO DATE IN A POST-DATING WORLD and the edited anthology, SINGLE STATE OF THE UNION: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness. As a copywriter, I've created radio spots, web content, brochure copy, news releases, museum exhibition text and promotional emails.

Expertise

Writer
20 Years

Specialty

Health
3 Years
Humor
20 Years
Lifestyle
5 Years

Industries


Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
5 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
5 Years
Online/new media
2 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

CNN.com (10+), MSNBC.com (10+), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10+), Singular Magazine (3-5), Self Magazine (1-2), MSN.com (1-2), Match.com (1-2)

Other Work History

Other publication credits include Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Mental Floss, Seattle Magazine, Seattle Metropolitan, Seattle Times, Seattle Woman, Southern Living, South Florida Sun Sentinel, The Washington Post, etc.

References

Julia Sommerfeld, Jane Weaver, Linda Dahlstrom, MSNBC.com; John Levesque, Chris Beringer, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Brian Cantwell, The Seattle Times.

Associations

mediabistro.com / Authors Guild / Association of Health Care Journalists

Showcase

Health

Hairy economy trend: Beards are back
(MSNBC.com 2/10/2009)
When it comes to breasts – three’s a crowd?
(MSNBC.com 12/22/2008)
Bed-wetting blues: Millions of adults suffer, too
(MSNBC.com 2/18/2009)
White House leans again to the left(ies)
(MSNBC.com 1/21/2009)
Laser hot mamas zapped into prebaby shape
(MSNBC.com 9/17/2007)
For people with hyperhidrosis, life is a long struggle to stay dry
(MSNBC.com 4/23/2007)
For women, too much body hair can really hurt
(MSNBC.com 9/29/2008)
Frozen in time: Botox over the years
(MSNBC.com 10/22/2007)

Travel

Whirling into a carnival of collectibles
(Los Angeles Times 1/26/2003)
Confronting the secrets of Victoria's Chamber of Horrors
(Seattle Times 10/9/2003)
Day-spa debutante: Testing the waters in Langley
(Seattle Times 3/13/2003)
Tulip festival: A Skagit 'Valley girl' remembers her past
(Seattle Times 3/27/2003)
Three women take the "girls' night out" concept on the road
(The Seattle Times 9/16/2004)
A trip to Emerald Downs reignites a childhood love of horses
(Seattle Times 7/24/2003)

Lifestyle

How to survive a wedding from hell
(CNN.com 6/2/2008)
Anonymity opens up split personality zone
(MSNBC.com 9/24/2008)
Killer fashion: Looking good never hurt so bad
(MSNBC.com 6/23/2006)
Oddballs abound when you're a freak magnet
(MSNBC.com 8/4/2006)
Gals make passes at guys who wash glasses
(MSNBC.com 2/13/2008)
Bury me with my cell phone
(MSNBC.com 12/16/2008)
Get your BlackBerry out of our bed!
(CNN.com 5/12/2008)
Should your wife have guy-friends?
(CNN.com 1/23/2009)
Fastidious spelling snobs pushed over the edge
(MSNBC.com 2/3/2009)

Misc.

Law & Disorder: Crime-scene investigation class sets CSI junkie straight
(Seattle Times 8/1/2003)
City lights: Two men pursue their passion to save Seattle's neon
(Seattle Times 2/26/2004)
Leap years have caused chaos, prompted proposals throughout history
(Seattle Times 2/29/2004)
Martha wannabes: Who'll be the next queen bee of fabulous living?
(Seattle Times 8/29/2004)

Single Shot columns / dating

Desperately trying to make sense of men at a seminar
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1/29/2009)
Dating Blues - That sinking feeling: What does a single in Seattle have to do for a date?
(The Seattle Times 6/8/2004)
Dogs are men
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 9/12/2007)
Dating Blues - Friends with benefits. Buddies. Booty calls. Is this what dating has become?
(The Seattle Times 12/11/2005)
Dating Blues - Pitching woo pretty scary for guys, too
(The Seattle Times 7/13/2004)
Dating Blues - Internet dating: How to find the right site and avoid online horrors
(The Seattle Times 9/5/2004)
Dating Blues - Looking for love after 40
(The Seattle Times 10/2/2005)
Dating Blues - Check your baggage: It's the men's turn to offer dating complaints
(The Seattle Times 10/30/2005)
Only the hottest survive on Darwin Dating site
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 7/18/2007)
For Valentine's, look in the mirror and check out your real best friend
(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1/18/2007)
Competition for a spot in firefighters calendar is a sizzling affair
(The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 5/10/2007)
Health coverage might be the latest reason to wed
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2/27/2009)
Surfing sites for smart singles made me testy
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1/15/2009)
Need a reason to break up? 'Seinfeld' has you covered
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12/4/2008)
The eco-dating game
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/14/2008)
O say, can you see how great living alone can be?
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer 4/3/2008)