By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills On July 4, 2026, the United States will celebrate its 250th birthday. Across the country, communities and families are planning grand celebrations. Bands will play music that gets our feet moving and our voices singing. Flags will wave proudly. Homes and neighborhoods will glow in red, white, and blue. Choirs will sing beloved patriotic songs. Families

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills June is National Dairy Month, and what better way to celebrate our introduction to summer than with ice cream. As a girl, I loved Dairy Queen—actually, I still do. One of my favorite memories is my brother choosing to ride in the back of our dad’s pickup with his ice cream cone. The wind picked up

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Welcome to Author Spotlight!  I’m delighted to present Jaime Jo Wright,  my featured suspense author! Jaime Jo Wright, multi award-winning author–including the Christy and Daphne du Maurier awards–is a coffee-fueled and cat-fancier extraordinaire. She has entwined her life with the legendary Captain Hook, residing serenely in Wisconsin’s rural woodlands. Her literary vocation involves penning chilling Gothic tales,

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Novelists wear many different hats to create realistic and exciting stories. We study, research, visit our settings, interview people, and spend hours learning the craft while exploring character to create believable emotions. We write for ourselves to stoke our incessant imaginations, and we write for readers to venture into new worlds and learn more about themselves.

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Every person on the planet is creative. We’re all born with gifts and talents unique to our personalities and how we can use them to better serve the world. Too many people believe creativity escaped them when, in truth, our creativity is begging to be explored. We don’t have to be eccentric, bizarre, weird, or flighty.

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Meet bestselling author Kate Angelo — my featured romantic suspense author for April! Bio Kate Angelo is the Publishers Weekly bestselling author of Hunting the Witness, Selah Award winner of Deadly Holiday Hijack, and Amazon Top 100 bestseller of Driving Force. She serves on the executive board of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and works alongside

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Do you ever feel guilty about taking a break to rest and relax? I do. Sometimes I fall into that pit where my thoughts whisper that stepping away from my responsibilities is wrong—as though life will ding me for not keeping to my schedule. But should we take time to be free from obligations? To enjoy

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills This week, I’ve interviewed a dear friend, Eva Marie Everson, a profound writer who has a new release ready to explode into the reader’s world.  Her upcoming release is a southern fiction novel straight from a southern writer. Miss Beth Bettencourt excels in every area that makes an unforgettable novel. I read it and the story

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills 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 to communicate truth. This isn’t an original concept. Jesus spoke in parables and revealed deep spiritual principles through the power of story. When the disciples asked Him why, I

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Welcome romantic-suspense writer Sami Abrams to March’s Author Spotlight! Sami writes incredible stories, and I know you will enjoy her interview—and her books. Award-winning, bestselling author Sami Abrams grew up hating to read. It wasn’t until her 30’s that she found authors that captured her attention. Now, most evenings, you can find her engrossed in a Romantic