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A freelance environmental writer with diverse skills and improbable imagination,
                     Diana Somerville can help bring your story to life.   
                             
                             Looking for an editor who can help your work sing?
                                       Or someone to help you realize your creative dreams?
 
                                               Welcome! You've found the right place.
WRITER
I’m an experienced freelancer who lives for offbeat assignments, for stories that call me to combine my skill as a journalist and as a science writer with a splash of creativity and a dollop of verve.

Whether you want a news story with pizzazz or an attention-grabbing press release, a carefully crafted report or a concise white paper, I can give you results that exceed your expectations.

Here you’ll find sample published articles. A resume listing my professional affiliations, awards and honors.  My employment history.
Here's where to click if you would like to comment, contact me or subscribe to my column Greening the Commons.

EDITOR
I love helping people find the words and ways to tell their stories. Especially when we go beyond wordsmithing and work together to match intention and outcome. It enriches me, personally and professionally, to:
  •     Help an international expert transform her training into a do-it-yourself handbook.
  •     Craft a publication for a research university to tell real-life stories of adventures in learning.
  •     Transform an academic group’s prose into a compelling book.
  •     Devise ways for a newspaper to reach a special readership
  •     Assist a city government in developing a web page its citizens could actually use.
  •     Allow a woman wrestling with physical disabilities to open her fictional world to readers.

AUTHOR

I was delighted when Inside Out Down Under: Stories from a Spiritual Sabbatical won 2008 Indie Excellence awards – for Memoir and Travel. Two different categories!

It entwines a spiritual quest and a journey to the Land of the Dreaming, embracing several classifications. The story includes precise observations of the people, plants and animals of Australia. Explores traditional Aboriginal beliefs and my experiences in a women’s spiritual circle. Examines the life force connections between Earth’s oldest continent, traditional people and today’s world.

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The view from where I sit and work and study and dream
is a constant reminder of the Navajo song about walking in beauty.

DREAMER
Dreams let us know that the universe contains so much more than our waking minds perceive in our everyday reality.

Many wise and wonderful people have encouraged me to deepen my dreams and choose the reality I live each day. Among those who inspire me are  Carol Christ, Donna Eden, Jean Houston, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Robert Bly, Starhawk, Susan Griffin and Terry Tempest Williams.
Read them. Listen. Go to hear them speak whenever you can.

Looking out my window, I’m inspired by the vibrancy of the natural world, the paradox of its ever-changing constancy, its profound lessons about balance and connections. It renews me as every cell of my body remembers: I am part of Earth and she is part of me.  My dream is to live each day from this awareness.

Do dreams call you? Are you longing to remember your dreams?  To reconnect with your deepest self? Would you like me to email you information about my next seminar, class or workshop?
Just let me know by email or contact me through Facebook.