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I'm excited to announce that Navigating the Stars is available now worldwide! Navigating the Stars is the first book of my Sentinels of the Galaxy series. It's a fast-paced, action adventure science fiction story, starring Lyra Tian Daniels. It's set 400 years in the future and, in this world humans have discovered Chinese Terracotta Warriors on exoplanets throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. Lyra's parents are the archaeological experts with a capital E and are assigned to travel to Planet Yulin to assess the newest Warrior discovery. Lyra's not as enthused about the adventure to say the least, but, since she's not yet eighteen Actual years old, she has no choice but to leave her friends behind-- 50 years behind that is. Traveling through space very fast has a big price--the time dilation. However, once she arrives at Planet Yulin fifty years in the future, she has more to worry about than missing her friends. Looters attack and strange things are afoot! O

The countdown has begun and there's about a month and a half until my latest book, Navigating the Stars is published! To celebrate, I'm giving away 2 advance reading copies (ARCs) and 12 custom book labels that I will sign and personalize for you to place in your copy. The give away is open to ALL! It ends on Halloween - October 31. Check out the Rafflecopter form below to enter. The book will be published in Australia and New Zealand on November 19, 2018. Isn't the cover gorgeous? There will be an audio book available in AU/NZ as well, narrated by the lovely Eloise Oxer. I'm also independently publishing the book in the US, Canada, and the UK on December 1, 2018. I don't have cover art yet (or links -but they're coming soon), but Josh Durham is working on it - he also did the cover art for the Australian edition. And the fabulous Gabra Zackman is narrating the audio book. Here are some pre-order links for the AU/NZ edition: Amazon Australia An

Wow - it's dusty in here! And look at all the spam comments I need to delete. Sorry, I have to admit, I'm not a blogger. So why keep my blog? Because this works when I wish to do an interview and giveaway with a fabulous author. I thought I'd be doing more of these, but this year has been BUSY. I use Facebook to post updates and fun things so that's the best bet.  Maria's Author Page Speaking of fabulous authors, Lynette Noni's US debut YA book, WHISPER was published this summer and it's wonderful! I have an extra hardback copy and an ARC to giveaway - see the Rafflecopter below. I met Lynette in Australia when I was there for SupaNova Con. She is the sweetest person, beautiful both inside and out! Her The Medoran Chronicles are chewing up the Australian Bestseller charts and now she has a book published in the USA! She took some time out of her super busy schedule to answer my Take 10 questions about her US debut, WHISPER. Here's the cover copy: