Welcome

If you’re looking for something to read, you came to the right place! I’m Michael R. Hicks, and I make my living by writing books that – I sincerely hope – you’ll enjoy reading.

My books are listed below, and by clicking on the book covers or links you can find out more about each one. All are available in most major ebook formats, and most are available in print, as well.

Feel free to check out my blog, and if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact me! I love hearing from readers, and while it sometimes takes a while, I try to answer every email I get. You can also hook up with me on Twitter and Facebook.

Now, let’s check out the books!

IN HER NAME: THE LAST WAR

I normally recommend that you dive into the IN HER NAME universe with this trilogy, starting with FIRST CONTACT, which is free as an ebook.

Ichiro Sato is a young midshipman of the Terran Navy who finds himself at the sharp end of humanity’s first encounter with an alien species, the warriors of the Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the human sphere, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress.

From the terrifying ritual combat into which he is plunged after his ship is captured, through his rise in the ranks of the human navy after the Kreelans launch a massive invasion, Ichiro and the other brave men and women who serve beside him must fight a desperate series of campaigns for humanity’s very survival. For both them and their Kreelan enemy, a race that is dying from an ages-old curse, the great clash of ships and swords among the stars will be The Last War…

First Contact (Book 1) – FREE!

Legend Of The Sword (Book 2)

Dead Soul (Book 3)

The Last War Trilogy Collection

IN HER NAME: REDEMPTION

This is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Captured and enslaved by the Kreelans, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking the ages old curse upon the Kreelan race.

Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young alien warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born, with the fate of both civilizations hanging in the balance.

Empire (Book 1) – FREE!

Confederation (Book 2)

Final Battle (Book 3)

Redemption Trilogy Collection

IN HER NAME: FIRST EMPIRE

For long ages, the Kreelan race, bred for war, has lived in chaos. Countless realms have risen from the ashes, aspiring to conquer the Homeworld and the Settlements among the stars, only to fall again into barbaric savagery. Ruled by the code of the Way, taught and protected by the ancient priesthoods, theirs is a civilization caught in a bloody stasis.

But there came a day when a child was born, a child foretold by an oracle millennia before who would unite her race under one ruler, for all eternity. Her name was Keel-Tath, and she was destined to become the first empress of an empire that would eventually span ten thousand suns. Assuming, of course, that she survived…

From Chaos Born

Forged In Flame

Mistress Of The Ages

HARVEST TRILOGY

Genetically modified organisms. GMOs. They’re in almost everything we eat that isn’t organic. Genetically engineered to be resistant to herbicides or insects, to grow larger or use less water, they make up the bulk of humanity’s food supply. But what if there was a far more sinister purpose behind them?

At a genetics lab where a revolutionary strain of wonder food crops is being developed, FBI Special Agent Jack Dawson’s best friend and fellow agent, Sheldon Crane, is brutally murdered. The killer was looking for very special seeds that Jack’s friend had taken from the lab, and tore his body apart trying to find them. Jack is convinced that Naomi Perrault, the beautiful geneticist who leads a group of suspected eco-terrorists, is behind the murder. But when FBI agents who aren’t quite who they claim to be show up on Jack’s doorstep after a bomb devastates the FBI lab in Quantico, destroying the evidence from his friend’s murder, Naomi becomes Jack’s only hope of survival.

Together, in a harrowing tale that is more science fact than fiction, the two of them must face a horror that threatens not only humanity, but every form of life on Earth.

Season Of The Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 1)

Bitter Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 2)

Reaping The Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 3)

Novellas And Short Stories

The Journal Of Avery Moore

In a delicious horror novella hearkening back to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit And The Pendulum, Avery Moore, a good-hearted man working as an attorney, wakes up to find himself in a stark white room, naked, bound to a table, and his lips sewn shut. The nightmare becomes a terrifying reality as he realizes that he’s being used as an unwilling blood donor to keep a sociopathic physician alive, while the man’s psychotic and sexually deranged sister delivers unspeakable cruelty with each of her torturous visits. As Avery endures the endless torment, only one thing keeps his sanity from slipping away entirely: the hope, vain that it might be, that he can somehow escape before the life has literally been drained from his body…

Nonfiction Books

The Path To Self-Publishing Success

With the digital reading and publishing revolution has come the opportunity for every man and woman who so desires to become an author. But for those who wish to do more than simply put together a family memoir, for those who dream of writing for a career, the only real avenue to success is through traditional publishers and agents.I’m here to tell you that’s simply not true. You don’t have to have a degree in literature, a background in publishing or marketing, or be a previously published author to be successful in this brave new world of self-publishing. I’m living proof, having given up a well-paying government job of twenty-five years to become a full-time, self-published author, and in this book I’ll tell you how I did it.