J.M. Huxley wants to paint the world in stories—those that call the world to revelation—the supernatural kind with the power to influence hearts and change lives, in places where the veil thins to reveal unearthly color and empowering brilliance as promise! Huxley is an award-winning author and broadcast journalist. She is the former operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks, and former fitness instructor for 24-Hr. Fitness, prior to homeschooling her children on a farm and blogging therapeutically about the radical shift of a city woman’s heart on the unbroken plains of Kansas. Huxley and her husband Kevin have eight children, five grandchildren, and more livestock than she cares to admit to, or than her children will allow her to talk about. She has a B.A. in Speech Communication from San Diego State University and a Master of Journalism from Temple University. Currently, Huxley is a morning news anchor on independent radio, hosts COLOR SPEAK Podcast, and cares for livestock on her small Kansas farm. In her spare time, she reads classic literature, drinks coffee and laughs alot with her comedic kids, and watches old movies on TCM with her husband. Read more on Facebook and Instagram @authorjmhuxley, and at https://www.jmhuxley.com *** MILK AND HONEY LAND, which received the Reader's Favorite Gold Medal Award in 2021, and an Author Academy Award for Best Memoir of 2019, was 30 years in the making. In 1989, after just finishing graduate school in Philadelphia and preparing to fly home to San Diego I suddenly exclaimed, “May 3rd is a date we will always remember. There is going to be a plane crash today!” I then boarded a plane with my eight-month-old son and a sedated cat in a carrier and prayed to the heavens it wouldn’t be mine. As soon as my feet hit the ground in California, I learned I’d just lost my father in a commercial plane crash on Vancouver Island. I was right. I had heard heaven correctly. Over the past three decades God’s been honing my reception to his messages, getting my attention in countless, colorful ways. So much so, and so powerfully, I felt I had to write about it. My inspiration comes from him, produced in a place deep inside me I tunneled through, where vulnerable emotion and luminous understanding repressed could be given breath. And only through writing was I given sight, the ability to recognize how perfectly all the pieces of the puzzle of my life have come together and how my life represents one tiny piece in the interlocking masterpiece known as a Creator’s universe. But I had to lose everything that stood in the way of that truth before I could see it. And before I could write about it. I wrote about it for you. So you could be encouraged to find your own rainbows in the wilderness. And so you could be assured your own Promised Land awaits. *** Rainbow Land, a book of hope, was written to encourage children to a greater understanding of the God who loves them, the beautiful ways he creates to show his devotion to them, and his promise still found in rainbows.