J M Huxley

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 has eight children, seven 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, host of COLOR SPEAK Podcast, and caretaker for livestock on her small Kansas farm. In her spare time, she reads classic literature, drinks frothy coffee, and talks to God from her front porch.

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COLOR for CANVAS is a speculative fiction novel published in November 2025 to encourage readers beyond our perceived physical barriers into depths of greater understanding about what exists around us. I wanted it to be fairly light, with literary undertones that highlight the poetic nature of our Creator God, and to carry readers into what exists beyond, or to at least consider possibilities:

Everything changes for Jane Campbell in 1982 when a mysterious stranger arrives to transport her to a faraway land, rich with spiritual revelations. She falls wildly in love with its big skies and sea grasses set against a spiritual world that whisks her away from an unsupportive family and her own monotone reality. The Land becomes her ever-changing sanctuary is her private place of escape and something she initially shares with no one but her enigmatic guide.

Jane Campbell paints what she cannot talk about, the real outside of the real in past, present, and future shades. She must express what she is witness to—what she lives—onto canvas, because it would be impossible to keep her unusual experiences to herself. However, Jane soon discovers not all is good even in a place purposed for it. As she navigates the shadows of evil, outside of time, over centuries, and in her present reality, she will not only discover what exists in other realms, she will realize her own truths as well. Brushing her heart and her beloved land out onto canvas, Jane will unearth a supernatural talent, enabling her to color the world while painting her own destiny. There, she will see herself as anything but plain.

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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.

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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.