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Buy Available as Paperback and Kindle Edition Elephant Milk

2010, Outskirts Press Inc.
Sean Hayes is driving a lime green dune buggy that a friend of hers traded from Elvis Presley for angel dust. A major motion picture is about to be released with Sean's accidentally naked breasts in it and she has just watched her best girlfriend shoot heroin, while Keith Richards nodded on the couch. Sean parks the dune buggy on Coldwater Canyon, walks down the hill, and lights a joint to calm down. There she finds a pile of black clothes, wet with blood. The Tate murders? It is 1969 and things are starting to get really icky.

Meanwhile, Sean's first boyfriend has taken off to Mexico and she has no idea exactly where he is. But a girl has to follow her heart. Sean leaves Beverly Hills determined to find her lover, even if it means joining a traveling circus and getting lost in a world of drum rolls and lions and Mayan glyphs. Even it means having knives thrown at her for a living, and facing a loaded machine gun in the hands of her rival. Somehow, she will find Frank, even if it means going deep into the jungle, just in time to view a total eclipse, on the back of her favorite elephant.



“Diane Sherry Case has produced a pitch-perfect depiction of the desperation and hopefulness of being young, attractive, and distraught, not just in the glory days of rock and roll, but forever.” - Jim Krusoe, Erased “wow. I mean Wow! - Lou Beach, 420 Characters

“Diane Sherry Case always surprises in this lyrical, edgy, and often surreal tale. In a world where love is a circus full of beasts and flying knives, you may find yourself in the strangest places, in the strangest of ways.” - Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

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Write For Recovery

2018, Miraculous Books  
Write for Recovery is derived from the field of creative writing and uses many of the same type of exercises that are taught to inspire fiction writers, but now geared toward healing. Among the various goals of these exercises is to help you explore the depths of both your positive and negative emotions, work with metaphors and imagery, create safe places within, cultivate mindfulness and define your most passionate goals. The wonderful side effect of this playful work is that free-flow writing awakens your creative spirit, allowing you to access the hidden talents that lie within you.

Writing is a door into your perceptions, emotions and thoughts, often revealing more to you than you consciously knew. It can serve to heal wounds, express hope and teach more about the self. It is an opportunity to see patterns and repetitions you wouldn’t otherwise notice as striking. It helps you keep current in your emotions and explore your relationships to yourself, to other people and to the world. It can aid in the search for meaning and purpose in your life.




“Write for Recovery has changed my life. Through her classes, Diane inspired creativity that I never knew I had. I would recommend this course to anyone, even he who does not realize he can write!” - Brad Simpson, co-founder of Show Up for Children

“I love to hear it when people are doing new and creative therapeutic writing approaches - which Write for Recovery clearly is...” - James Pennebaker, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin

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Earth to Skye

2016, ELM Grove Publishing  
Liv and Skye have been best friends since pre-school. At sixteen, they are trying to make the leap from "Hello Kitty" to lace thong underwear. Skye is incredibly talented and beautiful and into everything she can find in her Mom's medicine cabinet. Her parents don't seem to care what she does. Her mother is an ex-model who parties all the time and her dad still travels with his punk-rock band, leaving Skye to look after her two little sisters - when she's not hanging around with her homeless junkie boyfriend. Liv's parents are feeling their way through a recent divorce, but everyone seems to be OK with it.

Then one day, all Liv has left is Skye's journal - her thoughts, frustrations, hopes and fears, her colorful drawings - and a lot of anger. She decides to join her mom - an award-winning documentary filmmaker - on a trek across The Himalaya as she films the charity work of a Tibetan monk. It is a long and harrowing journey for Liv, who takes Skye's journal with her to read when no one else is around. Liv has so many questions. Will Skye's journal give her the answers she needs to be able to let go?




“Lyrical and moving” - Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat

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