Single Shot Seattle: Would you like a little attitude with that?

Welcome to
my website

I’m Diane Mapes, a local writer who grew up picking berries, climbing trees, playing the piano and reading monster mysteries and ghost stories on a gorgeously dysfunctional strawberry farm about an hour north of here in Skagit Valley. At 20, I moved to Seattle and went on to marry, stepmom, learn to write, divorce, grow up, travel, date, lose friends, eventually lose parents, get cancer and somehow stumble into the world of science.

And I’ve written about all of it along the way. Feel free to dig into the site or explore these handy kinks — oops! — links. ; )

* Books on dating and the single life (also, my zombie parody, 50 Shades of Brains)

* My Seattle P-I humor column, Single Shot

* Oddball medical writing (think cutaneous horns and stone babies) and lots of other odds and ends.

If you’re interested in current work, check out my cancer research and public health writing at Fred Hutch. Have questions about freelance work? There should be an email address around here somewhere. ; )

Looking for my breast cancer blog? Check out doublewhammied.com. 
Wondering why there aren’t any new posts? Me too! No worries, you can also always find me at my #BC Twitter feed, @double_whammied. 

Thanks for stopping by and as always, enjoy the ride. The sun goes down before you know it. ; )