Diane Merrill Wigginton
Author | Kalispell, Montana |
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Diane Merrill Wigginton is the winner of the Silver Benjamin Franklin Award for Angelina’s Secret, the first book in her Jeweled Dagger Series. She was born in 1963, in Riverside, California, and moved to San Diego when she was eight years old. She enjoyed spending her summers in Burley, Idaho, with her mother’s parents, Florence and.... more
Diane Merrill Wigginton is the winner of the Silver Benjamin Franklin Award for Angelina’s Secret, the first book in her Jeweled Dagger Series. She was born in 1963, in Riverside, California, and moved to San Diego when she was eight years old. She enjoyed spending her summers in Burley, Idaho, with her mother’s parents, Florence and Orval Merrill, and it was during her time on the farm, riding horses, herding cattle, and taming the wild kittens born in the haystacks every year, that Diane developed a love of storytelling and dreamed that one day she would tell her stories to the world. She currently lives in Kalispell, Montana, where each day is like being on vacation because of the amazing views from her back porch.
The mother of one daughter, two sons, and three amazing step-sons, Diane has eleven grandchildren.
She has also racked up an impressive list of awards.
Awards:
- Benjamin Franklin Digital Award 2017 (Angelina's Secret)
- Most Inspiring Author Award 2017 from International Writers Inspiring Change (The Jeweled Dagger Series)
- Reader's Choice Awards 1st place Historical Fiction 2019 (Lara's Story)
- Reader's Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner 2019 (Lara's Story)
- Outstanding Creator Awards 2023 1st place Suspense (A Compromising Position)
- Outstanding Creator Awards 2023 2nd place Romance (A Compromising Position)
- Outstanding Creator Awards 2023 2nd place Women's Fiction (A Compromising Position)
- Outstanding Creator Awards 2023 Honorable Mention Best Character (A Compromising Position)
- The BookFest Awards 1st place Winner Fiction Romantic Suspense (A Compromising Position)
- 2023 International Firebird Book Award Winner Suspense Romance (A Compromising Position)
- Readers' Favorite 2023 International Book Awards Finalist Romance-Suspense (A Compromising Position)
- IAN Book of the Year Awards 2023 (Independent Author Network) Finalist Romance “A Compromising Position”
- 2023 Global Book Awards Silver Medal for A Compromising Position (Angelina's Secret)
- 2024 Literary Titan’s Book Awards (The Secret of One-Eyed Cogburn, The Dreaded Pirate Captain)
