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5 Ways Your Book Must Stack Up to Bestsellers
The only thing that’s certain in book marketing is surprises. In fact, I’ve spent more than 18 years in the book marketing business as an indie author, and I am surprised all the time.
A diverse group of children discover a park where words literally come to life.
IR Approved Author Soph Tang: “If I die in obscurity, at least I’ll know that I died doing what I love.”
Decadence is just a story about raw human experience. It's about vibrant and complex characters, the heartache of love and yearning, the tragic agony of impossible decisions, and that weird, fuzzy sensation of laughing through your...
A Life Full of Quarks is a darkly comic tale of science, family, loneliness, and love, the hilariously heartbreaking story of a young scientist.
Advice from IR Approved Author Josh Bottomly (via Frederick Buechner): “Have the courage to open a vein.”
Eucatastropheis the story of a high school teacher that touches upon everything from literature and psychology to theology and philosophy in an attempt to make sense of his depression. Josh's story is filled with humor,...
When a swarm of ancient alien insects awakens beneath the Martian surface and decimates his colony, seventeen-year-old Adam Flynn—the first and only human born on Mars—must lead a small group of teenage survivors in a...
Advice from IR Approved Author Emmanuel Arriaga: “The more books you write, the more successful you will be.”
First Elite is a genre-bending sci-fi epic that blends the gritty realism of hard science fiction with the mythic power of epic fantasy.
6 Writing Exercises to Help You Start and Finish Your Novel
These six writing exercises will not only provide you with a refreshing break, but will also help further your in-development manuscripts — whether you’re at the start, middle or end of that process.
Dual-timeline novel about a middle-aged man who wants to discover his family’s buried history before he loses his dad—a history that involves a mass-killing in smalltown Italy in 1945, his uncle’s disappearance in Stalingrad, and...