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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.

Author Karl Sebastian Tells All About His IRDA Winning Book

Although most might want to boil down the book to a seemingly impossible story of overcoming extreme obesity. At it's base value, the book is a story of my life. Destroying it until it was...

First Place IRDA Winner Ana Hebra Flaster: “I think if you’re born to write, you can’t not write. I think I’ve always had this story in me, and I’ve been telling it all my life.”

Property of the Revolution is about losing your home, family, and identity in the span of 24 hours and recreating yourself again out of cold, foreign earth.

Author Ernestine Whitman Tells All About Her IRDA Winning Book

Countermelodies is the story of a young woman’s struggle to overcome the painful betrayal by her beloved mentor.

Here’s What You Must Know About Finding Your Target Reader

The bottom line is that gaining exposure isn’t that hard, but doesn’t guarantee it will sell books. A book can get discovered countless times, but getting people to buy it becomes much more difficult.