Diane, 34, the former CEO and publisher of Medusa Press, has a total of 20 years publishing experience in periodicals (Girlfriends, OOB, QSF, Passport), newspapers (Crescent City Star, New York Times, Idaho State Journal), corporate communications (General Electic, First Interstate Bancorp), and book publishers (McGraw Hill/McMillan). As a consultant, one of her high profile clients was Solimar, a new age magazine that aquired a three million dollar investment package from Stanton Financial Group.

Her freelance work has appeared in over 30 magazines including Seventeen, Curve, Film Threat, Diva, Venus, Natural Health,Femme Fatales, and Bitch.

Diane's essays and fiction appear in a variety of anthologies including Closer to Home (Seal Press), Young Wives Tales (from Seal Press) and Tough Girls (from Black Books). Her book-length projects include a 120-page special issue of the widely read women's journal Sinister Wisdom (1996) and Lavender Locker, a 250-page anthology of work by writers under 20 (1992).

Diane attended Tulane, Xavier, and Idaho State universities as well as New College of California and University of California at Berkeley. She has a BA in communication and a post-grad certificate in publishing. She holds many awards for publishing (including several Vica Versa Awards) and was a finalist for the 2000 Women in Periodical Publishing's Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award (which was won by Bonnie Krueger, founder of Complete Woman).

Diane's currently at work on a number of new projects including a second edition of Lavender Locker (edited with Gina DeVries), a book about female criminals (co-authored with Angelina Malhotra-Singh) and a book about lesbians in the movies. To contact her please email diane@anderson-minshall.com.

Her essays have also appeared in several anthologies including Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism (1992, Seal), Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (2001, Seal). Her fiction appears in the recent Black Books anthology Tough Girls (2001).

Interviewees include actresses-Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Angelina Jolie (Girl Interupted), Jennifer Tilley (Bound), Jada Pinkett Smith (Set it Off), Traci Bingham (Baywatch), Laura Innes (ER), Phoebe Legere (Toxic Avenger), Camryn Manheim (The Practice), Cynda Williams (Tales of the City), Rain Pryor (Rude Awakening), Amanda Bearse (Married with Children, and Irene Bedard (Smoke Signals)-as well as comedians such as Margaret Cho, musicians like Sinead O'Connor, athletes including Jenny Thompson and Martina Navratilova, authors such as Chastity Bono and Ann Bannon, actors including Harvey Fierstein, and a heap of film directors that includes Melissa Painter (Wild Flowers), Ann Lu (Dreamers), Beth Dewey (Tweeked), Todd Hughes (The New Women), and Hilary Brougher (Sticky Fingers of Time).
Diane is also well known for her series of interviews with former child actress Dana Plato shortly before her death.

Diane's Resume

RECENT PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE
Managing Editor, QSF Magazine and Passport Magazine, Feb. 2002-May 2002. Editing, writing, intern management, trafficking, tracking, art aquisitions.

Editor in chief/publisher/CEO, Alice Magazine/Medusa Press LLC, June 1999-November 2000. Launched an 80-page quarterly multicultural magazine. Secured over a dozen distributors nationally and overseas. Developed business, direct mail, and marketing plans. Managed all cash flow, P&L statements, taxes, advertising, marketing, pre-press, and editorial direction. Supervised sixty writers and small core staff of eight. Developed and managed successful web site with over 100,000 visitors monthly and secured partnership with Snowball (the largest Gen-I network on web).

Executive Editor, Girlfriends Magazine, April 1994-November 1998. Launched national women's magazine. Developed all content. Supervised art and editorial staff as well as numerous freelancers. Managed healthy annual budget and reduced costs by 25% a year by streamlining. Worked with advertising and marketing to raise ratebase to nearly 100,000. Managed pre-press operations-galleys, design, proofs, print. Orchestrated several annual best-selling issues such as "Men We Love." Won numerous awards.

Associate Editor & Editorial Consultant, OOB Magazine, March 1993-April 1994 & 1997. Streamlined art and photography systems. Managed fiction aquisitings. Spearheaded national intern program. Advised relaunch and redesign of bi-monthly women's magazine.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Solimar Magazine (1999): Provided editorial repositioning plan, P&L, cash flow, and market plans for 96 page magazine (resulting in a million investment offer from Stanton Financial Group).

San Francisco Pride Guide (1998): Executed editorial postmortem and market analysis for launch.

50/50 Magazine (1994): Performed initial edits for 64 page start up's launch.

Cinepico (1999-2000): Did film scouting for start up DVD film company funded by Noiseland.com.

OTHER PREVIOUS PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE

Editor, Crescent City Star (1990-91, New Orleans, LA)

Editorial Assistant, Idaho State Journal (1993)

Editor, First Interstate Bancorp (1990, Los Angeles)

Production Editor, McGraw Hill (1989-90, New York)

Editorial Assistant, CTI Temp (1989, New York): placed at Details, Random House, New York Woman)

Copy Editor, General Electric/Blanchard (1988-89, New Orleans)

Reporter, Gate City Journal (1986-87, Nyssa, Oregon)

Reporter/Intern, Daily Argus Observer (1986, Ontario, Oregon)