Calling All Book Clubs – Free Books To Selected Winner!

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills ATTN: Book Clubs / Libraries I love book clubs! I would enjoy hosting your reading group via Zoom. Q&A time is often a favorite as readers get to probe my brain with all their burning questions 😉 To celebrate next week’s release of TRACE OF DOUBT, I am thrilled to annouce I’ll be giving away up …

Hope in the Unknown

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Blog: Darlene L. Turner @DarleneLTurner Hope. The word raced into her mind. She needed to place her trust and hope back into the One she now realized had never left her, even during everything. With God, the unknown shouldn’t be feared. There was hope in the Eternal. Madison peered up through the well as a cloud …

Cake That! An Inspiration for Readers

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post: Heather Greer @Heather Greer I had so much fun writing Cake That! My husband and I enjoy watching food competition shows. They inspire us in the kitchen, and they inspired me in my writing as well. There are so many outstanding personalities to develop into characters you love and love to hate! And each one …

When Out of Control is Okay

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest blog by Jerusha Agen @SDGwords The anxiety was like an attacker clutching at my throat. It cinched my stomach and squeezed my heart. I knew this nemesis, this fear, too well. I thought I had shaken off my anxiety only the week before. But as soon as I had learned a loved one’s health was at …

The Blue Ridge Reader Connections

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 …

The Month of Love Giveaway Announcement!

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 …

12 Things I Wish I’d Known About Writing Fiction

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 …

The Boy Who Cried Christmas

DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post by Dennis Bailey @DennisBailey Hello, I’m Dennis Bailey and I’m the author of The Boy Who Cried Christmas. I’d like to thank DiAnn for inviting me to be a guest on her blog and for giving me this opportunity to spotlight my latest Christmas novel. It’s the story of a skeptical young boy swept back …

Come Full Circle

By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post by Jayme Mansfield  @JaymeMansfield There’s something special about a circle. Somewhere along the curved line, there is a definitive beginning – a starting point from which the path begins and eventually an end point at which it is complete. And, so it is with life. Recently, my family and I moved my eighty-five-year-old mother …

Straight from God

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 …