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Advice from IR Approved Author Gerald DiPego: “Write from the deepest part of yourself…and speak with sureness and grace about your work.”

In these four interconnecting stories, residents of an Illinois lake town in the 1950s move through deep love, loneliness, great joy and the mystical, as they discover the truths that linger just below the surface...

Don’t Be Shy

Don’t Be Shy. That’s a tough thing for some people because many authors are by nature introverts.

Advice from IR Approved Author Mike Trigg: “Writing needs to be your favorite hobby, the thing you’d do with your free time regardless if you sold a single copy.”

"Burner" tells the story of Shane, the anonymous leader, known only as Burner_911, of an online populist movement, and Chloe, the progressive celebrity daughter of a tech billionaire.

IR Approved Author Hank Quense: “For quite a while now I’ve been motivated by a need to do something different.  Something new.  Something I haven’t done before.  Something that makes me learn new stuff.”

Are you writing your first book? Or are you thinking about writing it? Do you have any idea what you’re getting into? No? Let’s talk about it.

Advice from IR Approved Author Margaret Mandell: “Keep going. If you don’t, then you don’t want it badly enough.”

The loss of a life partner strikes over one million new women every year—shattering the present, leaving the future in doubt.

IR Approved Author Lee Woodman Tells All About Her Book

SOULSCAPES is about “other ways of knowing.”

IR Approved Author Nancy White Tells All About her Book

Betrayed by her parents and her criminal husband, naive young widow Carrie Wagner flees her home in Columbus, Ohio, to follow her dream of starting over in California. Even though she's sworn off men, Carrie...

IR Approved Author Rodney Nelsestuen: “I have something that I can’t put my finger on that drives me to sit down and write.”

Winston Williamsen, head of the law firm his father founded, grapples with the realization that his life has become a fraud. Trapped in a profession he felt coerced into, his cynicism deepens as his actions...

Be an Original

So, if you’re thinking your idea or creation won’t be successful because it hasn’t been done, reprogram your brain.