Read more about the article Advise from IR Approved Author Cory Mortensen: “Someone once told me making a book is like building a house. Writing is building the walls. Editing is figuring out where the doors and windows. Go and build a lot of walls, worry about the doors and windows later.” 

Advise from IR Approved Author Cory Mortensen: “Someone once told me making a book is like building a house. Writing is building the walls. Editing is figuring out where the doors and windows. Go and build a lot of walls, worry about the doors and windows later.” 

UNLOST is the second book of a three part award winningtravel memoir series.  Unlost takes the readers on an adventure from California to Antarctica.  Filled with adventure and misadventure, it promises to entertain and educate.  As I like to say, this is not a guidebook, but I hope this book guides you in some way.

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Read more about the article Glint

Glint

This is the captivating second book of The Plated Prisoner series. It’s an adult epic fantasy story blending romance, intrigue, and beautiful imagery. Return to the seductive story of magic inspired by the myth of King Midas, and get caught up in the world of Orea.

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Read more about the article Advice from IR Approved Author Francesca Vespa: “Respect your audience. Respect. Your. Audience.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Francesca Vespa: “Respect your audience. Respect. Your. Audience.”

A group of high school kids experience the horrific death of a close friend. As they transition into adulthood, their lives intersect in painful and sometimes violent ways. It’s a comedy. 

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Read more about the article Advice 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 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.

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Read more about the article Advice 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 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.

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Read more about the article Advice 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 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.

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Read more about the article 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.”

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.

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Read more about the article 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.”

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.

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Read more about the article IR Approved Author Nancy White Tells All About her Book

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.

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Read more about the article IR Approved Author Rodney Nelsestuen: “I have something that I can’t put my finger on that drives me to sit down and write.”

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.

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