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Royal Diplomacy

Book 6 of Diplomat’s Apprentice

Released August 27th, 2024

Which will prevail: Diplomacy or violence?

The League of Free Planets sent a diplomatic team to ​negotiate a settlement between two warring planets. ​Everyone knows to follow the rules of interstellar ​courtesy during talks.

But when one of those planets is tradition-bound ​Estancia, things quickly go sideways.

Unexpected threats have the League Council’s new ​president scrambling against a ticking countdown. Who ​better to turn to than his trusted friend’s mercenary ​team?

Except not one but two of the diplomats in question are ​related to the mercenaries, including Anwyn’s estranged ​mother.

Adding to the muddle, Anwyn and her new bodyguard ​haven’t fully integrated with the team—or gotten used ​to working with each other.

Allies rally to help, but an old enemy anticipates their ​arrival. The team has a mission…but nothing is quite as ​they expected.

Rescuing diplomatic hostages should be easy for an ​experienced mercenary team. But no one factored in an ​insurgency or a blizzard!


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Preorder Available

Trading in Velocity

Book 2 of Star Trader ​Independence - a new thrilling ​space opera series

Coming November 2024

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Valen’s Run

Prequel Novella to Star Trader Independence - a new thrilling space opera series

Released March 20th, 2024

Trading in Royalty

Book 1 of Star Trader ​Independence - a new thrilling ​space opera series

Released July 15th, 2024

Valen needs to get to his home planet to avert a crisis and save family members. But how did this come about? How does a mercenary ship captain manage to find himself on the run? And how does he arrive at the Star Trader Independence? Learn about his adventure and meet his friend the alien Shargrel and the resourceful street kid, Dee. Valen's Run is the action-packed prequel to Trading in Royalty.

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Diplomat’s Apprentice Series

Book cover for sci-fi novel Diplomat's Apprentice by LJ Dix - book one in the Diplomat's Apprentice space opera series. The book cover features Anwyn Owens fleeing from danger on a hover bike.


Diplomat's Apprentice: Book One



The best laid plans . . . Fall apart ​when family gets involved!

Space battles, daring rescues, ​dramatic chases, firefights and ​yes, even a bit of diplomacy, all ​make for a more exciting debut in ​an exciting new space opera ​series.


Book cover for science fiction novel Pilot's Apprentice by LJ Dix - book two in the space opera series Diplomat's Apprentice. The book cover features Anwyn Owens on a ship in outer space.

Pilot's Apprentice

Diplomat's Apprentice: Book Two



Join the circus, see the galaxy. . . ​to Anwyn this sounded like a ​great adventure!

But it might be more of an ​adventure than Anwyn expected.


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Pilot's Quest

Diplomat's Apprentice: Book Three


Replacing a damaged engine part for the circus starship will lead Anwyn and Jemal into danger. Pirates, dangerous adversaries, and, of course, the special agents who have become part of Anwyn’s life, all get involved.

Will Anwyn and Jemal make it back with the replacement part, or become victims of a brewing planetary revolution?


Book 4


Diplomatic Decisons

Diplomat's Apprentice: Book Four


Anwyn loved her job at the ​Malcolm Star Circus. But after ​being offered an opportunity to ​join the mercenary team , she has ​a major decision to make. Adding ​to her problems, an old enemy, ​still bitter from his previous ​defeat, sees Anwyn as a means to ​get revenge on her prominent ​uncle.

Anwyn realizes she has ​something to prove, not just to ​her friends, but to herself. Can ​she rise to the challenge and ​emerge victorious? When things ​go terribly wrong, will she be able ​to rescue herself this time?


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Mercenary’s Apprentice

Diplomat's Apprentice: Book FIve



Book 6 is out ​NOW​


Royal DIplomacy

Diplomat's Apprentice: Book Six

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Old Age and Treachery

The book cover for sci-fi short story Old Age and Treachery by LJ Dix. The cover features a spaceship flying through outer space on an epic science fiction adventure.

Old Age and Treachery

An Exciting Space Adventure by LJ DIX

Rifka has been running freight convoys through space for decades. The company, and some of her crew, believe it might be time for her to retire.


But when pirates attack, Rifka and a ship on its last flight before being decommissioned might be the only thing standing between the fleet and destruction.


The pirates, and Rifka's crew, are about to learn discover a lesson about Old Age and Treachery!

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An illustrated representation of science fiction author LJ Dix sitting at a computer on a spaceship as it navigates past alien worlds while her adorable space cat rests on the back of her chair.

LJ Dix is an emerging author of sci-fi adventures. She is an ​enthusiastic reader across multiple genres and a lifelong storyteller, ​frequently inventing tales for her children and grandchildren. Many ​of her current writing projects evolved from those tales.

When not writing, she can be found working in finance, studying ​global supply chains, spending time hiking and kayaking in beautiful ​Washington State, or working out and teaching Tae Kwon Do where ​she holds a fifth-degree black belt.

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