Unplanned pregnancy affects everyone associated with it. Women fear an unknown future, while loved ones often fear the woman's decision about the outcome of her pregnancy. Deliver Me offers practical help, valuable resources, and well-researched facts, via a collection of true stories, shared by women and men who have lived through unplanned pregnancies.
Dianne E. Butts has more than 300 articles and short stories published in over 50 Christian print magazines, including the Salvation Army's War Cry, Young Salvationist, Focus on the Family's Clubhouse magazine, Today's Christian Senior, Enrichment Journal, On Mission, and Encounter. She regularly writes for the online magazine www.TheChristianPulse.com. Her work has been published in Great Britain, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, and Korea.
Dianne has contributed to nineteen compilations including the newly released Chicken Soup for the Soul: Say Goodbye to Stress, as well as Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Best Stories of Faith, God Encounters: Stories of His Involvement in Life's Greatest Moments, For God So Loved the World...He Created Chocolate!, and Zondervan's New Women's Devotional Bible.
Dianne's next book, Grandparenting through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ, co-authored with Renee Gray-Wilburn, is due to be released from Write Integrity Press September 2012.
Her second book: Deliver Me: Hope, Help, & Healing through True Stories of Unplanned Pregnancy released April 12, 2011 and has been awarded the 2012 "Book of the Year" in the "Relationships / Family" category from Christian Small Publishers Association.
Now available on Kindle, Dear America: A Letter of Comfort and Hope to a Grieving Nation was her first book of her own, written just after the events of 9/11/2001 and published in March 2002.
Dianne is also a screenwriter. Her short film script, "A Cowboy's Faith," was inspired by a true story in her book, Deliver Me, and was a finalist in the 168 Project's "Write of Passage" contest in 2010. She wrote, produced, and directed her first short film, "The Choice," in February 2012 for the 168 Film Project. "The Choice" was also inspired by a true story in Deliver Me.
Dianne has been on faculty at the Colorado Christian Writers Conference and often speaks to writers groups.
When she's not writing, Dianne enjoys riding her motorcycle with her husband, Hal, and gardening with her cat, P.C. They live in Colorado.
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