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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 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. …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Friends, I’m in a dilemma, and I need your help. My blog is designed for you—readers. Because you are important to me, I want to ensure you receive the topics that interest you. My goal has been to mix humor, holidays, guest posts, recipes, life happenings, serious subjects, and whatever else seizes my attention that I …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Join me in celebrating February as National Library Lover’s Month. Our libraries offer a variety of media to improve, educate, and entertain their patrons, and the best part is libraries are free. These sources of information create community and encourage social interaction with those whom they serve. Types of Media Our libraries began as a collection …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I’m super excited to announce the Romantic Suspense A-Team—Janice Cantore, Lynette Eason, DiAnn Mills, and Dani Pettrey. The four of us have teamed up and invite you to join our private Facebook Group of best-selling, award-winning romantic suspense authors for book-talk, prizes, and fun. Our goal is to encourage readers to comment and pose questions about …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Reading is as vital to my career as writing. Establishing reading goals for 2020 along with my personal, professional, and spiritual objectives means scheduling a plan. I like what Stephen King says: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” I’ll add my own …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills This week concludes a series of weekly blog posts featuring 1 of 6 Christmas short-story ebooks I’ve written. I am posting one each week as a free download for my readers on Pinterest. I’m hopeful one or more of these will be just the ticket to get you in the holiday giving spirit. This 6th and …
