Author Archives: Michelle Diener

Release Day for TRAILBLAZER with Giveaway

GIVEAWAY WINNER ANNOUNCED BELOW

Trailblazer is available from today! I’m very excited to share more of the Verdant String series with my readers. As with the other books, TRAILBLAZER can be read as a standalone.

For subscribers to my New Release Notification list, I’m also happy to say that I’m running a giveaway to celebrate TRAILBLAZER’s release. The main winner gets a $20 Amazon gift card and a signed copy of TRAILBLAZER, the two runners-up will each receive a signed copy of TRAILBLAZER.

If you aren’t a member of my New Release Notification list yet, you can sign up by using the form in the right column of my website.

You can enter the giveaway below:

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About TRAILBLAZER

WINNERS: Huge congratulations to Arielle, who has won the $20 GC and the signed copy of TRAILBLAZER. Congratulations also to Janet and Kim Justice for each winning a signed copy of TRAILBLAZER.

Trailblazer Available for Pre-order

I’m happy to say that TRAILBLAZER is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Publication date is March 5th. Trailblazer is the third standalone novel in my award-winning Verdant String series.

About Trailblazer

He’s on a mission . . .

She’s running for her life . . .

And if they get off-planet alive, she’ll have to trust he won’t reveal her darkest secret.

Tally Riva is not what she seems, and even she’s not happy about it. Infected, invaded, she’s not quite sure how to describe it, but on a disastrous mission to a ghost ship, something burrowed its way into her body. Into her mind.

When her commander decides the best cure for what he thinks is Tally’s trauma is to send her on the famous Veltos Trail, Tally goes without revealing what’s really behind her mental anguish. Anything to be seen as normal again, anything to ignore what she’s afraid is happening to her.

But Veltos isn’t the safe place it seems. The chosen military personnel lucky enough to be offered the chance to walk the Trail are supposed to be the only people on Veltos. But Ben Guthrie, a captain in Arkhoran Special Forces, knows they’re not. He and his team have been on Veltos for a month already, tracking suspicious enemy activity, and he’s gone undercover on the Trail in search of a satellite his superiors are sure has been shot down.

When Ben’s worst fears become reality, and they find themselves hunted by a cunning enemy through the thick forests of Veltos, Tally and Ben fight together to survive. And Tally has to decide if accepting the changes inside her will save them both, or be her doom.

TRAILBLAZER is part of the Verdant String series but can easily be read as a standalone novel. Other books in the series include Interference & Insurgency (Two Novellas of the Verdant String), and Breakaway and Breakeven.

Breakaway Wins a SFR Galaxy Award

It’s the week for getting recognition for Breakaway 🙂

Thrilled to say that Breakaway has won a SFR Galaxy award. You can find all the Galaxy Awards below, and most likely some great new authors and fantastic books. You can find Breakaway in Round 1.

Welcome to the 2018 SFR Galaxy Awards

2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 1 – Jo Jones

You can find the other rounds on the SFR Galaxy Award blog, but they are:

2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 7 – KJ Van Houten
2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 6 – Chris Stock
2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 5 – Marlene Harris
2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 4 – Lee Koven
2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 3 – Heather Massey
2018 SFR Galaxy Awards Round 2 – Riley Moreland

24 Days of Holiday Giveaways: Day 24

The last winner is Carol – congratulations! And all the best to everyone for 2019!

Wow, we made it! Thank you for joining me for the last 24 days, everyone. It’s been great spending the last three plus weeks talking with you all every day 🙂

The last prize is all three ebooks in my Verdant String series. I hope everyone who has regularly commented has won something these last three plus weeks, and if not, you have one last chance!

I know we’ve talked recipes already, but that was about your general favourite. Tomorrow is Christmas Day, and I would love to know, if you celebrate the day, what dish you always make? And if you celebrate a different festival, which dish you make for that? Let’s hear about amazing food! 🙂 I always make marzipan fruit cake (the Nigella Lawson recipe from How to Be A Domestic Goddess). LOVE. THIS. CAKE!

(Just out of the oven.)

24 Days of Holiday Giveaways: Day 23

The winner today is Lisa! Congratulations, I’ll be in touch to get your books to you.

Wow, one day left to go! I hope everyone has had as much fun as I have.

The prize today is all three ebooks in my Sky Raiders trilogy. I really thought about this series for a long time before I wrote it, and it has a special place in my heart. For those who don’t have a copy of INTENDED, the prequel, it is exclusive to members of my New Release Notification list, so you can sign up in the little form on the right of this post and you’ll receive a copy.

The theme of Sky Raiders at heart is about the potential everyone has inside them. In a literal sense, Taya has had the potential to call a change the whole time, but needs to be out of her comfort zone to realize it. I loved playing with that theme throughout the series.

Do you care about themes in books, or don’t you notice them, you are just interested in a good story?