Diane Foster
Bio
I’m a professional writer, proofreader, and all-round online entrepreneur, UK. I’m married to a rock star who had his long-awaited liver transplant in August 2025.
When not working, you’ll find me with a glass of wine, immersed in poetry.
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The Kiss of Rome
Marcus Tullius had always believed the Empire eternal. Marble gleamed beneath the sun, aqueducts sang with water, and senators spoke of Rome’s destiny as though Jupiter himself had carved it into stone. Yet beneath the Senate’s grandeur, Marcus carried a hunger that no feast could sate, a hunger for a kiss, for something human and fragile amid the Empire’s iron perfection.
By Diane Foster2 months ago in Writers
The Ash of Second Chances
The bell above the door didn’t chime; it gasped, a breathless sound of old brass waking from a century-long nap. Elias stepped out of the relentless, greyscale rain and into the shop. The air inside was dry and smelled of ozone, beeswax, and things that had been forgotten in attics.
By Diane Foster2 months ago in Fiction
Back to the Dirt
I hit the field with pockets heavy with names, hands reeking of iron. Apples. Each stalk I snap is an answer I can actually hold. I’ve learned to hoard what ripens, coercing that brittle light into the basket, nodding yes to the scrape of the stem.
By Diane Foster3 months ago in Poets
The Hour That Belongs to Her
The house always woke before she did. It creaked in polite warning as the sky shifted from black to the first thin scrape of grey. She pushed back the light covers and set her feet on the cold floor, that small shock reminding her she was, in fact, alive and not just drifting through another half-dream with yesterday’s thoughts stuck to her like burrs.
By Diane Foster3 months ago in Writers
An Autumnal Reverie on The Essex Serpent
At the heart of The Essex Serpent lies the thrilling story of Cora Seaborne, a recently widowed woman who leaves London in search of freedom from her stifling marriage and the weight of her grief. Drawn to the rural village of Aldwinter in Essex by rumors of a mythical serpent stirring panic among the locals, Cora’s curiosity soon entangles her with the village vicar, William Ransome. Their charged friendship, marked by tension and mutual fascination, unfolds against the backdrop of superstition, shifting scientific thought, and natural beauty. As the legend of the serpent weaves through the community, the novel delves deeply into themes of belief, love, and the painful, but ultimately hopeful, process of transformation.
By Diane Foster3 months ago in BookClub
