IR Approved Author Gregory Wunderlin: “I feel like being in that indie scene will let me experiment and mess up in the most glorious ways possible.”

What are all fantasy books about? Massive, sweeping themes, outrageous stakes, and a lot of fun.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Rick Joi: “Build beta readers into your book-writing process!”

If your organization has employees, then it has work anniversaries—and odds are they’re not great. But done well, work anniversaries can be a phenomenal opportunity to strengthen your workplace culture and improve employee experience.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Elisabeth Haggblade: “Don’t let the rejections fester.  Each day is a new start.”

A first-person account of the postwar years in Munich, Germany, with the war as an ever-present shadow leaving its physical and psychological marks.

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Advice from IR Approved Author River Faire: “Those who succeed are not necessarily the most talented, but the ones with the most grit and perseverance.”

A healer and Paris-trained chef returns to London from America to help his ex-partner, back from the brink of death, and finds himself on an expected journey of the heart, trusting his soul as compass for the mystery of life.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Erik E. Morales: “It’s okay to want fame, notoriety, and recognition, just try not to need them.” 

Shifting between humor and heartache, simple joys and profound losses, major guilts and minor redemptions, the story weaves together the lives and perspectives of multiple characters, as well as complex realities surrounding intellectual diversity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, race, and social class in contemporary America.

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IR Approved Author Tessa Bentley: “The best part about being indie is probably the most dangerous part—full creative control.”

When a family curse causes modern woman Vale to lose her children as she is forced back into Victorian England, she comes to understand—she must battle her fear of loving again if she hopes to get them back.

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