Advice from IR Approved Author Bill Harvey: “Follow your intuition and don’t edit until later. Let it flow and enjoy the process.”

The Great Being combines science fiction and alternative history to tell a story about how the universe might have started, with a single Consciousness, and how that Consciousness could have created all of us out of Itself.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Bill Harvey: “Follow your intuition and don’t edit until later. Let it flow and enjoy the process.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Jessica Carrasquillo: “When you can, I strongly recommend saving up to hire an editor. It’s worth it.” 

Just as nature evolves to protect itself against predators, a woman grows into a deadly force.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Jessica Carrasquillo: “When you can, I strongly recommend saving up to hire an editor. It’s worth it.” 

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 of everyday lives.

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

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.

Continue ReadingAdvice 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.”

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.

Continue ReadingIR 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.”

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 is determined to carry on and adopt orphans, creating the loving family home she longs for.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Nancy White Tells All About her Book

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 lead him down a path of moral and ethical decay.

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

Multiple IR Approved Author Michael Pronko: “I subscribe to the BIC school of writing—butt in chair.”

Detective Hiroshi tracks down scammers who are taking advantage of retired people, but discovers what’s behind Tokyo’s clean façade and how street-level scammers are not the only ones scamming.

Continue ReadingMultiple IR Approved Author Michael Pronko: “I subscribe to the BIC school of writing—butt in chair.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Eva Asprakis: “…make the most of that creative freedom and write the stories that speak to your heart.”

Thirty-Eight Days of Rain follows Androulla Demetriou, who is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and wondering if she will have to adopt a child one day herself.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Eva Asprakis: “…make the most of that creative freedom and write the stories that speak to your heart.”