Thanks to those hosting discussions of re-issue, Dreams Like Thunder, a novel, winner of Oregon Book Award, re-issued by Red Hen.

West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland - July 20. Diane reads at Fish Anthology Book Launch.

Words Bookstore, Maplewood, NJ - September 16, 7:30 - wine and discussion - Diane interviewed by author Meredith Sue Willis

Cornelia Street Cafe -- 29 Cornelia Street, NYC - October 18, 6 p.m. - Hidden Histories Women and War - Diane with Rachel Hall, author of Heirlooms discuss stories based on re-discovered World War II letters

Oregon Historical Society - Portland, Oregon - 1200 SW Park Ave -January 8, 2017, 2-3:30 p.m. - Diane discusses Eva's experiences in war-boom Portland, focusing particularly on life in the Kaiser shipyards.

Another Read Through Bookstore - Portland, Oregon - 3932 N. Mississippi Ave - Jan 10, 2017 - 7-8 p.m. Diane discusses Eva in Portland and shares a few of the eight hundred original letters upon which the book is based.

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities. Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. June 1 - 4, 2017. (Day and time TBA) Diane presents a paper: "What'll Happen When They Quit Building ships? - Reception, Depiction and Rejection of Women Shipbuilders on the Oregon coast."