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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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills A reader asked me how I discover the antagonist when I write a story. The short answer is: discovering the bad guy or guys is as much a surprise to me as the characters and the reader. For those of you who know me … and my OCD with organization, discipline, and schedules, the thought of …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills We all would like the distinction of responding to a crisis like an FBI Special Agent. The phrase of cool, calm, and collected comes to mind, along with wisdom, leadership, and a big umbrella of management techniques. Special Agent training doesn’t end at Quantico; more specialized training is required for the various divisions. Suspected crimes that …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills April 7th is World Health Day. This spring we’ve heard so much about the danger of the coronavirus that we may be ready for another topic. Or maybe we are grateful for healthy bodies. I’d like to take a different angle and offer what a healthy body means: ENERGY The following acrostic is a reminder of …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Ever feel like God’s plan for our lives is a futile attempt to solve a mystery? Our days are spent looking for clues in everything we experience. Is this God’s plan for me? What does this Scripture passage mean? Is God listening to my prayers? Nights are worse because we replay and stumble through the day’s …
