Advice from IR Approved Author Angela Chaidez Vincent: “Publicity/marketing was initially not my favorite subject, but a fellow poet reframed it: think of it as an extension of your world-building, a way to invite people into that world with you.”

Arena Glow is a collection of poems that swirl about the shin-guard-clad women of the arena. The arena takes many forms: the rodeo arena, the cockpit of a small plane, the boys’ club of engineering, the confines of a murderous board game, the Colosseum in which women also desired to fight as gladiators, the traditional marriage.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Stella Atrium” “You are in charge of your publishing goals, so don’t hand them over to a group making big promises.”

Bybiis the scholar helps Opin the healer to escape the control of Utica’s khalif who wants to turn Opin’s gift to his purposes. They are shipwrecked near a village where Dr. Greensboro is conducting research for vaccines and exploring the ruins of a lost city. Hershel Henry is visiting there and helps Jesse Hartley return to her life of privilege.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Dave J. Andrae: “Don’t wait for the circumstances to be ideal before you begin. In my experience, the circumstances for creating are almost never ideal and even if they are, they won’t stay that way for long.”

A Florida novel that melds literary fiction with gritty crime and mystery elements, romance, and insights into an aging Generation X.

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IR Approved Author Charles Roamer Tells all About His Book

It's a first-person narrative of what I consider one of three epic road trips I've made in my lifetime. U.S. 83 is a fascinating, old, largely two-lane highway that runs 1885 miles from the Canadian to the Mexican border through all the Great Plains states and what I consider "the Spine of America."

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IR Approved Author Jane Teresa Anderson: “The best part of being an indie is retaining full creative control.”

Cat (a marmalade cat) has one mission: to keep the unruly human practitioners of the Serene Lotus Centre for Health and Wellbeing in line and find the mysterious Silver Crescent Nest, so that she can graduate from her ninth life to become a spirit mentor. But when a scandal rocks the centre, everyone’s livelihoods are at risk, and it’s up to Cat to guard and protect them against harm.

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Multiple IR Approved Author Deb Pines Tells All About Her Book (And Clever NY Post Headlines)

When Velma White, a tyrannical landlady, now 74 and shaky on her feet, is found dead at the bottom of her Chautauqua home’s steep and slippery stairs, it looks like an accident. But was it? Only digging by reporter and relentless snoop Mimi Goldman —into Velma’s men, money and murky past—can solve this extra-tricky whodunit.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Kathryn Betts Adams: “Strive for quality. The process of self-publishing has become easy, but producing a quality, beautifully written and organized book takes a lot of work.”

The Pianist's Only Daughter: A Memoir is a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of aging in an aging expert's own family. Kathryn Betts Adams was the only daughter of colorful and talented parents: her mother, an English scholar and poet, and her father, a concert pianist and music professor.

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Advice from IR Approved Author RJ Shaw: “Don’t feel like you are not a legitimate, accomplished author just because you chose the Indie business model.”

Sheriff Gus Wallace, a no-nonsense retired FBI Agent, has only been in office a few months when a woman is murdered on a remote running trail in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, leading him into the most dangerous case of his career.

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Between Two Fires

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.

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Anarchy

Anarchy is the SECOND in a new Shadow Grove series. Several characters cross over to the Madison Kate series but it is not necessary to read MK's story first. HADES is a contemporary new adult reverse harem series, which means the leading lady has several love interests and never has to choose in order to find her HEA.

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