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Formerly a columnist with to-nite magazine, Ms. Wells has also been published in numerous other newspapers and magazines. A complete listing of her paid/unpaid articles published in hard-copy can be viewed by clicking here, but you might not find your way back without difficulty. She suggests you bookmark that page and go back to it at another time - it's another world altogether.
Her reviews of CDs, books and live performances have been posted on numerous popular websites and have appeared in the press kits of Terra Hazelton, Jeff Healey, Daniel Lanois, and Too Slim and The Taildraggers.
Since 2000, she has provided not-for-profit promotion/publicity services for local, national and international artists of various genres via the Internet at "Rockin' the Blues from Canada". Also posted at this website were several self-authored narrative music journals: SEATTLE RATTLE, GREAT BIG ROCK JAM, HAMMER-JAM and T�OH-JAM. These journals reviewed and/or promoted live regional performances in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, St. John's (NL) and the Golden Horseshoe (Toronto-Hamilton-St. Catharines-Niagara Falls). She suspended publication of these journals in August 2005. Ms. Wells was nominated for two 2006 Hamilton Literary Awards.
In addition to her career as a writer, Diane has also trained and worked as a volunteer audio-book recorder and on-air radio producer/host/announcer/DJ. Until May 2006, she produced and hosted "Patchwork Blues" (standard blues and fusions of same) at CFMU 93.3 FM in Hamilton, ON, and CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John�s, NL. She also produced and hosted fill-in segments for �The Herb Morrison Show� (top-40 retro hits show), �For Your Pleasure� (multi-genre), �Soundtrack� (film scores and soundtrack entries), �The Freewheelin� Folk Show� (roots-based singer-songwriters) and �Smokin� Bluegrass� (just that). From September 2007 to January 2009, Diane (along with co-host, Amanda Strawn) produced and hosted "Iron Maidens", a multi-genre show, spotlighting female performers and/or composers, at CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa, ON.
Ms. Wells has written a politically subversive memoir called Honky-Tonk Blues (in Canada), with nominal assistance from an Ontario Arts Council writers' reserve grant. She has been engaged in a human rights battle with the Government of Canada since 2005 and is awaiting a hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (Jan. 2009).
