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IRDA Winning Author Manon Rinsma: “What truly motivates me isn’t fame or fortune—it’s the power of connection and healing through storytelling.”

Feeling like she no longer belonged, a young woman sets off on a backpacking journey across four continents to confront her buried grief, mend her wounded soul, and uncover the resilience needed to rewrite her...

IRDA Winning Author Barbara Black on her Motivation: “My life would be nothing without the arts.”

Poetic and quirky, surreal and unsettling, the carefully crafted fictions in Little Fortified Stories range from 50-word micros to flash narratives and a few hybrids in between.

IRDA Winning Author Carla Conti Tells All About Her Book

A journalist writing a prison abuse exposé is imperiled by association after two prison gangs issue “hit orders” against the subject of her book.

IRDA Winning Author Brad Fawley: “Neither fame nor fortune motivate me. Rather, I love writing because it affords me the freedom to disappear into the story and the minds of my characters.”

The story is a celebration of human resilience, honor, sacrifice, and triumph over loss. One does not need to be a runner to enjoy or find meaning in it.

IRDA Winning Author Dr. Annise Mabry: “Educational Disobedience isn’t just my story—it’s a call to action.”

Educational Disobedience is the true story of how one mother turned personal pain into a national movement.

IRDA Winner Martina Gruppo on the best part of being Indie: “Having the autonomy to decide what you want to write is very liberating, especially on such a personal subject…”

The brutally honest story of how a seemingly strong and independent individual can be broken down by hidden  manipulation and coercive control.

IRDA Winning Author Patrick Finegan: “The financial crisis of 2008 set me adrift but also set me free. I am a great fan of new beginnings.”

Things go horribly wrong when the world’s most successful online teaching company replaces staff with artificial intelligence so adroitly that its cast of cartoon educators begins thinking on its own.

IRDA Winner Heather Joy on her motivation: “…readers finding a connection.” 

MMMM: and the music that made me can make a reader cry, laugh, and yell at the author for being an idiot - all in one chapter! The essays range from motherhood to men, media to...

IRDA Winner Colleen Mitchell: “Independent stories like this one don’t have big marketing teams—they thrive because of readers who crave something real, raw, and different.”

Passion and peril collide when Rowan narrowly escapes execution for a crime she didn’t commit, with the help of Casimir—a vampire knight seeking redemption.