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Ebook Cover Design Award Winners

Starting this month, IR will co-post the two top winners of The Book Designer’s “Ebook Cover Design Award”.  Read On »

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Dead is the New Black

I wanted the cover to convey BIG. In other words, it’s cozy mystery, but the world in which it takes place contains the highest and the lowest. So a terrific bilboard that eats up the sky seemed appropriate.  Read On »

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Turning Point

One of the criticisms often thrown at indie books is that they have lousy cover designs. We beg to differ, and to prove our point, we’ve launched a new feature to highlight some of the best.  Read On »

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IndieJourney: Denny Fried

Don’t get too excited about what seems like a positive development, nor get too down about what seems like a disaster. In time, neither will be as momentous as it first seemed.  Read On »

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Interview with Theresa Ragan

I started writing ABDUCTED out of frustration with not selling to New York. I decided to kill off a few characters and hopefully some frustrations at the same time.  Read On »

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Interview with Melissa Foster

The one important thread that is common with [traditional and indie publishing] is that authors will need to market their own books no matter which way they publish.  Read On »

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Interview with CJ Lyons

I’ve been a storyteller all my life—something that left me in “time-out” quite a lot as a child.  Read On »

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Interview with Darcie Chan

#1 on the “List Where Indies Count”, #8 on The New York Times bestseller list, #18 on USA Today’s list and #5 on Amazon  Read On »

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How I Got My Book to #1 on the Indie Bestseller List

A conversation with Ethan Cross, author of The Shepherd, the #1 Self-Published Best Seller  Read On »

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How I Got My Indie Books Onto The NYTimes Bestseller List

Romantic suspense happens to be a smoking hot genre and I write smoking hot characters…  Read On »

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