Diane de Castro is the best selling author of Connecting in San Francisco: 693 Great Places To Enjoy Yourself And Meet New People. Drawing on the success of Connecting, she developed a series of workshops and corporate seminars that provided the inspiration for the novel's main character, Roslyn Richardson.

Diane is also a television reporter who hosts the award-winning Comcast show Inside City Limits.

Being a media insider, she has worked the celebrity scene and witnessed firsthand paparazzi photojournalists vying for a coveted photo. Fascinated with this world, she wanted to reveal just how cutthroat the business really is. Diane lives in San Francisco with her husband and young son.