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Advice from IR Approved Author Carl Wooldridge: “Self-starting and initiative is the name of the game with this part of the writing world. Own it.”

The book is about a man named Henrick, who is part of the army belonging to the kingdom of Claymore.  He gets assigned to a special unit made to hunt down magic users in the...

Advice from IR Approved Author Tony Stewart (via Meghan O’Rourke): “…rather than waiting until you can set aside several hours for a writing session, try to write for at least fifteen minutes every day.”

Carrying the Tiger is an inspiring memoir which begins on the day I learn that my wife, Lynn, has incurable cancer, and ends when I finally begin to climb out of shattering grief and move...

How To Boost Sales by Revising an Old Book

If you have an older book that just isn’t selling the way it used to, you’re not alone. And maybe your older book could have been better to start with.  But, once your book has...

Advice from IR Approved Author L. Ryan Storms: “Forget about writing for the market. Write the stories that move you.”

A high school junior with crippling anxiety slips 9 minutes and 53 seconds into the past with each panic attack, and when a sandy-haired boy with hazel eyes and a dimple in one cheek tries...

Advice from IR Approved Author Michael Okon: “Research. Write. Sleep. Repeat. Don’t do this for fame and fortune. Do it because you love it.

Logan Osborne has spent his life chasing the shadows of the past. As a child, he watched helplessly as his father was snatched from a fishing boat by what he swore was a mermaid. No...

IR Approved Author Yarrow Paisley Tells All About His Book

I, No Other is a collection of ten short stories that you might hesitate to call “stories,” since they largely disregard the conventions of traditional fiction. Hence the fancy subtitle Narrations & Exaltations.

IR Approved Author Maggie Michaels DeCan: “…if you are with a good publisher, regardless of the size of that publisher, it is still ultimately your book and nobody cares about selling it, promoting it and marketing it more than you do.”

In "Humbled on Purpose", I attempt to humorously describe my journey through childhood trauma to the c-suite and then to the world of nonprofit with lessons learned and vulnerable mistakes listed.

How to Price Your Book on Amazon (or Anywhere)

By Penny Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc. (AME) and Adjunct Professor at NYU (Originally posted on 3/3/18) You’ve finally done it: you’ve finished that book you’ve been wanting to write for...

Advice from IR Approved Author Jerome J Bourgault: “Write about what excites you, what sparks your imagination, even if—especially if—you don’t know all that much about it to start with.”

Québec in the 1950s, a period that would come to be known as The Great Darkness. A young nun must take increasingly drastic measures against the Church, the government and the medical establishment to save...