Author Archives: Michelle Diener

Dark Horse is a PRISM Award Winner!

PRISM 2016 FinalistI am really honoured and thrilled that DARK HORSE has won best futuristic at the Prism Awards in San Diego a couple of hours ago. It is such an amazing feeling, with DARK MINDS about to be released, to have the first book in the series win such a prestigious award.

It is a bittersweet moment for me, because exactly ten years ago, I attended my first RWA conference, in Dallas, and the very first event I went to was The Gathering, where the Prism Awards are given. I attended with my roommate and good friend Liz Kreger, who even then was fighting the good fight against cancer and passed away over a year ago now.

This win is for you, Liz. I think of you often.

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Dark Minds: Cover Reveal and Release Date Info

I’m very happy to let those readers waiting for the third and final book in the Class 5 series know that Dark Minds will be released on July 22nd. Below, please find the awesome cover, designed once again by EJR Digital Art, and the blurb for Dark Minds.

Dark MindsAbout Dark Minds:

The mind is the most powerful weapon of all . . .

Imogen Peters knows she’s a pawn. She’s been abducted from Earth, held prisoner, and abducted again. So when she gets a chance at freedom, she takes it with both hands, not realizing that doing so will turn her from pawn to kingmaker.

Captain Camlar Kalor expected to meet an Earth woman on his current mission, he just thought he’d be meeting her on Larga Ways, under the protection of his Battle Center colleague. Instead, he and Imogen are thrown together as prisoners in the hold of a Class 5 battleship. When he works out she’s not the woman who sparked his mission, but another abductee, Cam realizes his investigation just got a lot more complicated, and the nations of the United Council just took a step closer to war.

Imogen’s out of her depth in this crazy mind game playing out all around her, and she begins to understand her actions will have a massive impact on all the players. But she’s good at mind games. She’s been playing them since she was abducted. Guess they should have left her minding her own business back on Earth…

Dark Horse is a PRISM 2016 Finalist

PRISM 2016 FinalistI got the news a few days ago that DARK HORSE has finaled in the PRISM Awards 2016 in the Futuristic category. The PRISM is a contest for published books run by the Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal Writers Chapter, and the winners will be announced at The Gathering in San Diego this July. I am thrilled DARK HORSE made the list, and am in very good company. You can find the list of all finalists here. It’s a real honour, and good luck to everyone who finaled.

The Class 5 Trilogy Goes Audio

Dark Horse 250px heighFor those readers who’ve previously contacted me about audio book versions of the Class 5 books, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve just signed a contract with Podium Publishing, the audio book publishers behind the world’s highest selling audio book THE MARTIAN, for all three books in the Class 5 trilogy.

The first audio book in the series, Dark Horse, won’t be out for some time, as we are not yet in production, but I’m happy to say it is in the pipeline.

Update on Portals Project: Volume 1 is live

Portals Vol 1I’m thrilled to say that the first volume of the Portals Project is live and available at all the various online retailers. Readers get a free sampler of first chapters of ten different science fiction romance novels with a medium heat level in Volume 1. The other volumes will be released at two week intervals.

You can download the Portals Volume 1 from your favourite retailers here:

Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | Nook

Portals Project – The Gateway to Exciting New Stories

Dark Horse 250px heighI’m excited to announce my involvement in the Portals project. Forty science fiction romance authors from all areas of this diverse genre have come together to put together four volumes of samplers of our work. Each volume will contain opening chapters from ten different authors, grouped together by heat level. The opening chapters of Dark Horse will appear in Portals Volume 3, and I’m thrilled to be participating in such an awesome project.

The Portals volumes will be available for free on all the major online booksellers sites and will hopefully give readers a taste of what they can find out there in the wonderful world of science fiction romance. Stay tuned for more details about release dates, but you can read more about how the idea came about at the Spacefreighters Lounge and over at Galaxy Express.