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By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Readers come in all shapes, sizes, and ages, but one trait they have in common is their enthusiasm for reading. Some prefer short nonfiction or fiction pieces while other readers reach for full-length nonfiction or fiction. Avid readers devour one book after another while many prefer to linger on each word. Word lovers highlight and underline …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Readers, we haven’t had a giveaway for far too long. Let’s make this easy and fun! Title the image below in the comment section of this post and enter a random giveaway for your choice of either a $50.00 Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, or Christianbook.com e-gift card. The Deadline to submit your title is Friday, May 14th at …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Tuesday, April 27 is National Tell a Story Day. Listeners, readers, and writers share a bond—we love a wonderful story. For centuries we’ve been thrilled with character and plot in a world that is often different from our own. Our imaginations explode when stories come to life. Stories help us see a reflection of ourselves. Since …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills A Guest Blog Post from Eva Marie Everson – Eva Marie Everson Recently, my husband and I took a trip to the beach . . . a three-day getaway forty-five minutes from home. We needed time to breathe. To not worry about laundry and cooking and work and life. We wanted to walk the beach as often as …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills A Guest Blog Post from Debb Hackett @Debb_Hackett Early into my radio career, the station staff would gather for weekly prayers in the conference room. After my shyness at being the newbie ran out, I mustered the courage to ask my boss what all the books were that decorated the window ledges in haphazard piles. You see, they’d …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills As we begin this month of love, I would like to celebrate how much I appreciate you, my readers, by hosting a random drawing giveaway. (2) winner(s) will each receive personalized hardcovers of my latest Tyndale novels including: -BURDEN OF PROOF -FATAL STRIKE -AIRBORNE The giveaway is now live and runs thru Friday, February 12th, Midnight …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I started writing seriously in 1996, and over the years I’ve learned the hard way a few truths about creating fiction—and a lot about myself. I wouldn’t change any of the life lessons. But perhaps these 12 discoveries of what I wish I’d known back then will help you understand a writer’s life. Research doesn’t mean …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post by Mary Alford @MaryAlford Sometimes something will happen in your life and you just know it comes straight from God. Almost like a smack to the head saying, “Hey you, this is what I want you to do! Now do it.” That about sums up how I became a published author six years ago …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Thousands of novels are released each year in genres for every reader’s taste. So many wonderful and amazing books, and we’ll never be able to read them all. But we try. What’s the fascination for story? Why do we crave the next novel and the next? Here are seven reasons why people love story. Entertainment is …
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. …
