Advice from IR Approved Author Lynne Handy: “If you can afford it, hire a marketing specialist.”

Who threw the baby in the creek? Who killed the May Queen before she could be crowned? Who is kidnapping pubescent girls in an Irish village? Two murders thirty years apart plus five abductions confound poet Maria Pell.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Steven Mayfield: “Don’t be afraid to tell people you’re a writer.”

Funny, poignant, and occasionally tragic, intertwined lives across nearly a century explain how a small Nebraska town became home to the long-lost Oracle of Delphi. 

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Advice from IR Approved Author Bryan Cole: “Edit, then edit again, then read it out loud to yourself as you edit again. Then hire a professional editor.”

"Beginning of Arrogance" is focused on the implications of what a paladin means for the world that they exist within.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Bryan Cole: “Edit, then edit again, then read it out loud to yourself as you edit again. Then hire a professional editor.”

IR Approved Author Jane Harrington on her Motivation: “I love to write fiction. To me, there is no better escape.”

In this contemporary novel set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southern Appalachia, the lives of two young women are knit together when one is left alone on a farm after the sudden loss of her partner and the other is displaced by mountaintop removal coal mining.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Jane Harrington on her Motivation: “I love to write fiction. To me, there is no better escape.”

IR Approved Isaac Thorne on his Motivation: “I get a huge rush of dopamine from finishing a book and putting it out there.”

A group of small-town neighbors in 1955 become trapped in their local general store during a severe thunderstorm with flash flooding. Among them is an alluring stranger with a famous face who at first appears to be a victim of the storm.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Isaac Thorne on his Motivation: “I get a huge rush of dopamine from finishing a book and putting it out there.”