How to Face-Down a Bear

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Today’s Guest Blog Post Written by Curt Iles @CurtIles I’ve got hiking fever. It strikes me several times a year and I find my heart, if not my feet, on a trail in Arkansas or the Appalachian Mountains. In both of these hiking locales, encountering black bears does occur. I want to share a few good …

3 Lessons Learned from a Road Trip

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills A few weeks ago, my husband announced we should take a road trip … and he wanted to leave in three days. We aren’t spontaneous, but obviously that trait played no factor in our enthusiasm. Perhaps it was the country moving slowly away from strict guidelines for COVID 19 that spurred our trip What I do …

What Does the Rhythm of Life Mean to You?

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I’m pleased to announce the winner of my recent random drawing giveaway. Congratulations to June from NJ who will receive an ebook of WHERE TOMORROW LEADS and a Wolferman Gift Basket! I’ve read many definitions of what the rhythm of life means. For some, it’s how we handle the ebb and flow of our life’s journey, …

Today’s Book Launch Helps Transform Lives In South Sudan

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Last week I introduced you to my June 9th eBook release WHERE TOMORROW LEADS, Book 2 of my Hope for Sudan series where three people from separate cultures continue their life journeys in southern Sudan. Today’s post shares my continued passion for the Sudanese people and a bit more about the story. Illiteracy remains rampant, and …

Sneak Peak into WHERE TOMORROW LEADS – Upcoming eBook Release

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In today’s blog post, I want to share about my upcoming June 9th eBook release WHERE TOMORROW LEADS. The characters I introduced in last year’s LONG WALK HOME continue in their life journeys through the war-torn, disease-ridden Sudan. The three, Ben, Paul & Larson, must decide if they can learn to trust God in all things, …

High School Student Wins Flash Fiction Competition!

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills While teaching a creative writing class to a group of high school students, I challenged them to write a flash fiction story. Sam won the competition. Sam is a junior at Colonel Crawford High School in Ohio. After graduation, she plans to study forensics and hopeful for a career in that field. She is active in National …

5 Ways To Choose a Writing Project

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers have a plethora of writing project ideas from which to choose. Life is full of words and scenarios that refuse to let us go—overheard conversations, history, local and worldwide events, movies, and other publications. Even when we dream, we are filling our imagination with ways to form our words into sentences, paragraphs, pages, and books. …

Truth and Fiction

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnn Mills I believe fiction can be a vehicle to communicate truth. From the moment I sensed a call to write, I understood my focus would be using story. This isn’t an original concept. Jesus spoke in parables and is known for deepening spiritual principles through the power of story. When disciples asked Him why, I have …

Tyndale Plans Early E-Book Release of AIRBORNE

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Amid eerily coincidental current events, Tyndale plans early e-book release of “Airborne,” my romantic suspense novel about an unknown virus outbreak. Completed well before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Airborne will now release as an e-book today,  April 28 in response to growing consumer interest, with print editions releasing in September as originally scheduled. You can learn …