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Teach Me to Read | Dan Kilian

An Email From The G Man

If I could interject, I’d like to say, don’t second-guess yourself. All this refinement and revision is what got my buddies in the State Department in trouble over those Benghazi talking points. Read On »

Comics | Steve Urena

“Anything That Loves”

A comic anthology exploring and celebrating the world between “gay” and “straight”, showcasing characters that are bi-sexual, pansexual, omnisexual, and just about everything in-between. Read On »

Math | Guest Author

Why Mid-List Indies & Agents Don’t Add Up

Many indies view self-publishing as a springboard to an eventual relationship with an agent, hopefully to increase their income and expand their market presence. For me, as well as the vast majority of mid-list indie writers, I think this view is unrealistic. Read On »

Cover Me | Guest Author

Why it’s best if I let my wife handle my book jacket designs

It’s difficult to say when my book jacket hobby became a sickness, but it was likely about the time I started writing books simply for the sake of creating covers for them. That’s when I knew I needed help. Again, my wife to the rescue. A professional graphic designer as well as artist, she has wrested from me the tools of my day-glow debauchery. Read On »

An Expert's Opinion | Guest Author

5 Things Indie Authors Do Very Well

My research interest in self-publishing was further fueled by the industry’s tendency to dismiss it; insisting on the need for validation by a ‘proper publisher’. Read On »

Teach Me to Read | Dan Kilian

Death-portunity

The number of middle-aged people committing suicide is on an upswing, beating car accidents for the first time since some morbid actuary started comparing suicide to car accidents. There may be some gray area regarding people who commit suicide by crashing their cars, but I’m assuming that’s been factored in. Read On »

Alike But Indie | Keri English

If You Liked “The Hit”, You’ll Love…

Choosing an indie book can be hard. And since indies don’t have what many consider an “official” stamp of approval from a trusted source like The New York Times, People magazine or your best friend Ginger—it makes it hard to decide which one to choose. Read On »

How We Read | Nathan Savin Scott

How We Read: Indie vs. Traditional

What I’m looking for when I read an indie is moments. Unexpected moments. Moments of clarity, originality, insight. Moments that I would never find in a book that went through the grinder of the publishing house—moments too strange, or frightening, or alien for a large audience. Read On »

Gotta Have It! | IR Staff

“Drugstore Camera Newspaper” & “Hotel Chelsea”

This week we showcase two fabulous indie books: Gagosian Gallery’s “Drugstore Camera Newspaper”, a 28 page over-sized accompaniment to the late Dennis Hopper’s “The Lost Album” show, and “Hotel Chelsea”, photographer Victoria Cohen’s fascinating look at an historic landmark. Read On »

in•die [in-dee] Informal : 1. a book that an author has paid, in full or in part, to produce.

Fast Food Vindication

Lisa Tilinger Johansen, a former McDonald’s Corporation real-estate-executive-turned-Registered-Dietician, is out to balance the bad rap that the fast food restaurants have received from books like Fast Food Nation and Supersize Me with bite-sized portions of common sense advice about nutrition, food and eating choices. Read On »

Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie…

Orbie is a nine-year-old whose father died in a tragic incident at the steel mill where he worked, an incident blamed on a black worker’s carelessness. Read On »

The Hangman’s Replacemen…

The last hangman in Zimbabwe retired in 2004, but since the death penalty seemed on the verge of abolition, there was no real effort to hire a new one. Read On »

Robyn’s Egg: A Futuristi…

At an unspecified time in the future, big business controls nearly all aspects of civilized life. From clothing that displays ads based on nearby consumers to food production that comes from only one company, escaping the vice of control is nearly impossible. Read On »

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Teach Me to Read

An Email From The G Man

Comics

“Anything That Loves”

Math

Why Mid-List Indies & Agents Don’t Add Up

Cover Me

Why it’s best if I let my wife handle my book jacket designs

An Expert's Opinion

5 Things Indie Authors Do Very Well

My research interest in self-publishing was further fueled by the industry’s tendency to dismiss it; insisting on the need for validation by a ‘proper publisher’. Read On »

Top 10

The Shift Omnibus

This is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling WOOL series. It combines the three Shift books (First Shift, Second Shift, and Third Shift) into a single e-book. Read On »

Top 10

Surrender

Raffaello (Rafe) Palazzo takes what he wants with no regrets. Arianna (Ari) Lynn Harlow has led a charmed life until tragedy strikes her family. He’s looking for a no-emotions attached mistress, she’s looking for redemption. Read On »

Top 10

Knight & Stay

Romantic, emotional & intensely erotic, “Knight & Stay” is the much anticipated sequel to “Knight & Play”. Read On »

IR Book Review

Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie’s Story

Orbie is a nine-year-old whose father died in a tragic incident at the steel mill where he worked, an incident blamed on a black worker’s carelessness. Read On »

Teach Me to Read

Death-portunity

Indie Travel Guides

Just In Time for Summer Vacation Planning!

There’s no time like the present to start planning your summer vacation. Be sure to take along one of these indie guidebooks when you do! Read On »

IR Book Review

The Hangman’s Replacement:Sprout of Disruption

The last hangman in Zimbabwe retired in 2004, but since the death penalty seemed on the verge of abolition, there was no real effort to hire a new one. Read On »