THE GIRL IN THE WOODS
IR VERDICT: A young artist gets lost during a violent storm in the Adirondack Mountains and her rescue by a forest ranger begins a well thought-out story line that involves…
TWISTED THREADS
IR VERDICT: TWISTED THREADS is the fourth installment of the Threads series by Kaylin McFarren. Amira Hamada, a former geisha turned assassin, is aboard a Caribbean cruise ship searching for…
THE TRUMPETS OF JERICHO
IR VERDICT: This heart-wrenching, fictionalized account of the all too real events surrounding the prisoner uprising at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp in 1944 will leave the reader astonished at the…
A SUMMER OF GOOD-BYES
IR VERDICT: A SUMMER OF GOOD-BYES is a beautifully written tale on the influence of art and travel on a family’s summer in the French countryside, where a coincidence leads…
ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE
IR VERDICT: ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND WHITE explores the tensions in an interracial marriage between an African-American man and a white woman. Eloquently written and grippingly realistic, this story is…
SUBURBAN VAMPIRE
IR Verdict: SUBURBAN VAMPIRE is an attention grabbing thriller from the start, with twists and turns combined with just the right amount of romance and humor.
Alexis Marie Chute on EXPECTING SUNSHINE: A Journey of Grief, Healing and Pregnancy After Loss
EXPECTING SUNSHINE is the real-life story of a mother who set out to find herself after the death of her baby. When she discovered she was pregnant again, she realized she had not grieved for her son, Zachary, who died of a cardiac tumor moments after his birth.
Steve Dimodica on his inspiration for ACCIDENTAL EVILS
ACCIDENTAL EVILS is about Isabel Finley a college student, who is taking a trip to South America. Part of the vacation is a reward, and part of the journey is to do research for her senior thesis.
Eric Haggman on THE APOLOGY: the motivation to make a great story has driven me to where I am
Filmmaker Christian Lindstrom returns to Vietnam to shoot tourism commercials, only to confront the agony of his past and the power there of the Asian underworld to control political events—including the creation and the whitewashing of Japan’s history itself.
Jay Harman on PLAINS TO THE PACIFIC: The source of my motivation comes from just one thing; sharing the story
PLAINS TO THE PACIFIC is based on a life-story manuscript written by Robert Slothower, my great-grandfather. Robert’s story represents a challenging life met with great courage.
Frank Adams talks about TUCKER’S EYES: Life Lessons From A One-Eyed Havanese
The book is about Tucker, who experienced the loss of his lifetime companion and cousin, blindness, and cancer surgery but who emerged rejuvenated, his love of life and people greater than ever before.
Chris Patchell reveals the publishing strategies + marketing plan that worked for her in Author 2 Author
In IR's first new AUTHOR 2 AUTHOR post, Chris Patchell shares her publishing strategies and hard-won marketing wisdom.
Colin Dodds on why people should read WATERSHED: “It’s a hopeful dystopia.”
WATERSHED is the story of a troubled, pregnant woman, and the two men—a snake dealer with a sideline in secret messages and a billionaire living under a false name—who compete for her affections, in near-future America.
PUMPKIN SPIRITS
IR VERDICT: PUMPKIN SPIRITS is a collection of 13 disturbing Halloween-themed short stories written for early to intermediate readers. While some of the tales were a little clichéd with somewhat…
CONSERVATION OF LUCK
IR VERDICT: CONSERVATION OF LUCK is a futuristic, quick-paced adventure about a female computer scientist whose life turns into a roller coaster of good and bad luck after using a…
A FAMILY OF STRANGERS
IR VERDICT: Outcasts of early civilization fight their way through an unforgiving wilderness 14,000 years ago in A FAMILY OF STRANGERS. A fascinating journey of engaging characters, venturing through a…
THE WORLD OF LETTERS
IR VERDICT: C.C. Strahan’s THE WORLD OF LETTERS: A Tale of Jealousy magically transforms the alphabet into a make believe world where A and his letter friends must learn to…
MOTHERS, SONS, BELOVEDS, AND OTHER STRANGERS
IR VERDICT: Watt’s collection of short stories revolves around the intimate yet oftentimes confusing relationships between family, friends and lovers. Although they’re grounded in reality, these tales have a touch…
Marilyn J. Bardsley on THE AMERICAN SWEENEY TODD
THE AMERICAN SWEENEY TODD is the fictionalized first-person journals of a real person, Dr. Frank Sweeney, a brilliant serial killer in mid-1930s Cleveland, Ohio.
Patrick Oster on his oh-so-timely IR Approved book, THE HACKER CHRONICLES
The adventures of dreamy, wise-cracking millennial hacker who discovers a murder the first night on a new job monitoring surveillance cameras in Chicago and turns himself into the world’s first cyber-detective to solve the crime and save a young damsel falsely suspected of it.
Blaine C. Readler on MOONSTROKE: All of my books are simply a recounting of actual events that haven’t happened yet.
It’s been twelve years since a massive solar flare destroyed communications with the American base on the far side of the Moon, killing the platinum mining workers and leaving just three adults to raise thirty-seven orphans. Isolated, the base has carried on, and the orphans—now teenagers—have taken up the mining.
S. C. Sterling on Teenage Degenerate: A Memoir that Explores the Depths of Methamphetamine + Drug Addiction
In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions. Teenage Degenerate is his story about drug addiction, music and growing up.
HEY NANA!: Connor’s Story of Love
IR VERDICT: HEY NANA!: Connor's Story of Love is a soul-wrenching story of the grief a family experiences when they lose their 9-year old son to a random act of…
ENDINGS: Poetry and Prose
IR VERDICT: ENDINGS: Poetry and Prose, is a melancholy journey through the themes of Art, Death, Relationships, Being and Reflection. These loosely organized intimate tales are tinged with sentimentality and…
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