IRDA Winner Dani Hall: “I have so many stories, so many characters living inside my head and I just don’t have the time to get them all down on paper.””

Bayith Renity has never been outside of her domed city of Athea. Every hour of her day is accounted for: education lessons, social interaction requirements, physical exercise mandates. Her entire life is tied to a port permanently embedded in her wrist.

Continue ReadingIRDA Winner Dani Hall: “I have so many stories, so many characters living inside my head and I just don’t have the time to get them all down on paper.””

IRDA Winning Author Jason Fisher: “The best part of being an indie author is collaborating with wonderful people in the indie space – publishing, marketing, editing, and other areas.” 

After nearly six years of marriage, I lost my wife tragically to an unforeseen sudden illness. We had one child at that point in time, who has a rare chromosomal disorder. Just 2 years old when Mandi passed, Kenzie really didn’t understand all that was happening.

Continue ReadingIRDA Winning Author Jason Fisher: “The best part of being an indie author is collaborating with wonderful people in the indie space – publishing, marketing, editing, and other areas.” 

IRDA Winner Tom Pearson: “I am motivated by the ideas themselves and how they develop…”

Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry and art that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming-of-age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera.

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IRDA Winner Monica Brillhart on her Process: “I work better with a word-count goal…when I say “write 250 words/day,” I write 250 words/day.”

Interweaving Greek mythology into a Bronze Age setting, The Rape of Persephone unravels the provocative origin story of Persephone and Hades. It is the first novel in a trilogy.

Continue ReadingIRDA Winner Monica Brillhart on her Process: “I work better with a word-count goal…when I say “write 250 words/day,” I write 250 words/day.”

IRDA Winner Michael J. Scholtes Talks All About His Book

This is the true story of Michael’s journey from a precocious child in a small town to the spiritual leader of a faith community, and how he slowly and fitfully learns how to discern the voices within -- both the "dark voice" of depression and the still, small voice of God.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Patrick Ashe: “Don’t wait for inspiration. If you really want to write…any start is better than no start.

Two world-weary warriors keep the bloodthirsty infected at bay. But the infected are getting smarter at an exponential rate. And unlike the rest of us, they can survive the coming nuclear fallout of a world coming apart.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Patrick Ashe: “Don’t wait for inspiration. If you really want to write…any start is better than no start.

Advice from IR Approved Author J. Luke Bennecke: “Write and read every single day, don’t give up, and don’t be afraid to let other people read your work.”

What if terrorists put genetically modified viruses into our drinking water?

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author J. Luke Bennecke: “Write and read every single day, don’t give up, and don’t be afraid to let other people read your work.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Blake Miller: “Have a destination, then write toward it.”

Shortly after returning from Lurkur Woods where they saved the mysterious sacrosite known as the Arba Magon, the "impossible" twins must again travel across worlds, this time to save the Lurkur Witch known as the Lil of Lurkur.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Blake Miller: “Have a destination, then write toward it.”