By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Have you ever met someone who could soften even the hardest conversation with kindness and a few simple words of encouragement? Perhaps someone has done that for us! We experienced a gifted person soothing an angry or troubled mood or situation and successfully created an environment of peace. God desires an attitude of love: loving our

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Welcome to Author Spotlight and Kristine Delano, my featured suspense author! Kristine Delano is an award-winning author of suspense with a heart for hope. After over two decades navigating the high-stakes world of Wall Street, she’s swapped stock charts for storytelling, crafting domestic thrillers that reflect the complexities of work/life balance. In pursuit of story, she hosts

By DiAnn Mills @diannmills Before CANYON OF DECEIT hits shelves on September 9, meet two of the characters who give this story its emotional core—Rurik Ivanov, a Russian professor living in Houston, and his young daughter, Alina, whose disappearance sets off a race against time. Here’s an inside look at who they are—and what they’re fighting to hold onto. By

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In CANYON OF DECEIT, danger runs deep in the Texas wilderness—but the greatest risks aren’t always found in the canyon. Meet Therese Palmer, a survival expert haunted by the past, and Blane Gardner, a Texas Ranger trained to talk down criminals but unprepared for what this mission stirs in his heart. Together, they must find a

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day makes any day an incredible celebration. Whether you are a dark chocolate, milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate chip, or white chocolate chip fan, make plenty of cookies and bars to share! Invite your neighbors to a chocolate chip cookie baking party. It’s August and school is out, plan a special event for

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills July is the perfect month to Spotlight Romantic Suspense Author Sara Davison. Welcome Sara! Sara Davison is the author of the romantic suspense series The Day Draws Near, The Night Guardians, The Rose Tattoo Trilogy, In the Shadows, and Two Sparrows for a Penny, as well as the standalone speculative, The Watcher. A finalist for more

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose. Ralph Waldo Emerson In middle school, I learned about tenacious people. I thought it was a fancy word for stubborn, and I wore the label well. But I discovered so much more, a mark of persistence that

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills None of us want to be labeled with a negative attitude—that is not a trait for how to keep or win friends. Yet, many of us implore the use of negativity to get our point across and often without any idea of our harshness. Emotion draws us to the speaker or kicks us to the curb.

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I believe reading a novel should be fun and entertaining. Readers step into an adventure and away they go! Throughout the writing and editing process, my thoughts are focused on making the story a memorable and engaging read. Afterward, one of my favorite ways to pique interest is to develop an in-depth downloadable book club kit

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The freedom we commemorate on the Fourth of July grows us in stages as we journey through life. Our appreciation deepens as we mature and become more discerning in our news consumption. When we were children, we learned about freedom and what that meant from our parents, teachers, movies, books, and parades. In reflecting on how