My work

Some articles I’ve written:

• Bake Better: Get bright flavors and festive colors, the natural way (story/recipes), December 2009

• Recipe development for “Build a Better …” column, 2008 & 2009
• Pizza Party (story/recipes)
• Girls Night In (story/recipes), June/July 2007
• Gobble, Gobble (story/recipes), November 2007

Oxygen Clean Eating (special issue)

• Clean Up Your Act: Simple Meals for Home and on the Road (recipes/PDF)

• Knobby, Misshapen, but Lovely to Eat (story/recipe about quince)
• Black Cake Adds Intrigue to Baking (story/recipe)
• Just Ducky, June 6, 2007
• Strawberry Season: A Matter of Time, June 13, 2007
• Strawberry Cardamom Cake, June 13, 2007
• Strawberry Sour Cream Muffins, June 13, 2007
• An Heirloom Herb Finds a New Market, July 4, 2007
• To Get to the Other Side, July 25, 2007
• They Share Their Love of Pastry and Prose, August 1, 2007
• Recommended Without Reservations, August 1, 2007
• A Whimsical American Take on French Food, August 8, 2007
• Keeping Georgia Off Your Mind, August 22, 2007
• Mrs. Neil’s Peach Pie, August 22, 2007
• Precious Preserves, September 19, 2007
• This Couple Just Smiles and Says ‘Goat Cheese‘, September 26, 2007
• No Knead, No Worries?, January 16, 2008
• A Little Slice of Home, February 13, 2008
• Spatula blade cuts down scraping time, April 9, 2008
• A space for spices, December 22, 2008
• Grill to perfection, February 18, 2009
• Thermometer’s temp jobs, March 25, 2009
• Cuisinart processes complaints into a top machine, December 23, 2009
• Snack-worthy fries without excess oil, February 24, 2010

• Entrée: Boston, October 22, 2008

• My Hartford: Meet a Few of the People Who Give This City Energy, Character, and Promise, April 2008 (pdf)
• Go, See, Do: The Great Hartford Area Offers a Wealth of Cultural and Recreational Opportunities, April 2008 (pdf)

fresh (custom pub/The Pohly Company)

• Batter Up (article with recipes on cooking pancakes with kids), March/April 2008
• Inspired Valentines (article with recipes for creating a romantic meal), January/February 2008
• Home Sweet Home (article with recipe for building your own gingerbread house), November/December 2007
• Sides Show (article about creating side dishes, plus 3 recipes), September/October 2007
• Handy Dining (article with five recipes; one of these was the cover shot!), July/August 2007

• Homemade Frozen Meals, May/June 2009
• 15-Minute School-Night Meals, 6-page recipe feature, fall 2008
• One Grocery Bag, Five Delicious Dinners, 7-page feature with recipes, spring 2008
• Winter Comfort Foods, 16-page feature with recipes, winter 2007

• A Mom’s Guide to Baby’s Tears, July 2008
• Vocal Volume Control, April 2007
• How Babies Soothe Themselves, April 2007
• Is One Enough?, February 2007
• When Grandma’s the Sitter, October 2006
• Background Checks, September 2006
• A Field Guide to Temper Tantrums, July 2004
• Your Child-free Friends, June 2005
• The Naked Truth, April 2004
• Scaling New Heights (short)
• Too Much Tickling?, February 2006
• Who’s Watching Your Child?, October 2006
• When Solids Cause Constipation, November 2006

Smith Alumnae Quarterly

• Rebel Writers (not by me, but about me/pdf)

Books I’ve written:

The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success (co-authored/Marion Street Press, 2003; revised edition 2005)

Psychology Today’s Here to Help: The Secrets of Successful Weight Loss (Alpha/Penguin, 2006)

The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock (co-authored/Marion Street Press, 2006)

Where I blog:

• The Renegade Writer
• Hail Britannia, an Anglophile’s blog from the the wrong side of the pond
• DianaCooks.com, a blog about food and recipes