IRDA Winning Author Cori Willams: “The beauty of diversity is not gathering different and diverse people and trying to make them act the same way.”

"Thriving While Black” sets out to explore the psychological and emotional consequences of being Black in corporate America.

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IRDA Winner F. Scott Service: “…it’s my feeling that we all know what we want to do, who we want to be…but they often become pretty muddy as we grow older.”

In a nutshell, learning through living is the centerpiece of the book.

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IRDA Winner Dorian Box on Challenges: “About a million new books are published on Amazon each year. It’s hard to get the word out.”

A twelve-year-old survivor of a home invasion on the run as her psyche splinters makes an unlikely ally in an ex-gang member who trains her to kill before more tragedy launches her alone on a terrifying journey for justice. 

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IRDA Winner Marta Mahoney Talks About Her Book

Our heroine, Annie Mulvaney, has just scored her dream job: director of the Macklin House, a Victorian museum in her small California home town. She quickly discovers the building needs $100,000 in repairs, or they’ll have to shut down. A Christmas trolley tour seems like the perfect fundraiser - if she can find a driver.

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IRDA Winner Bob Seay: “The only reason to read any novel is because it’s a good story

Jacob Martin’s life isn’t working out quite like he planned. His marriage is falling apart, he makes his living writing research papers for college students, and he’s living in the back of a laundromat. Now Dad, whose mind isn’t quite what it once was, has gotten lost on the road between Cincinnati and Colorado. Forced into an unexpected road trip to retrieve his father, Jacob finds love and himself along the way.

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IRDA Winning Author Nicole Kurtz: “Watching a lightbulb go off in someone’s head when they’ve finally understood a challenging concept motivates me.”

"Light is Color!" is a graphic novel accompanied with activities to test your knowledge on all things light. And, it can be used as a coloring book too!

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IRDA Winner HK Jacobs: “I want to tell stories that offer escapism for people who need it.”

Workaholic physician/humanitarian enters an unexpected blazing romance and  subsequent path of self-discovery where she must choose between the life she imagined or one she never thought possible. 

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IRDA BEST COVER Award Winner Ryan Meyer: “I wanted something that pops, but also a cover that feels simple yet busy.”

"Tempest" explores fear, hope, and self-identity through striking fictional vignettes and surreal personal accounts. It is thus a marriage between the dichotomies of musical, rhythmic poetic dialogue, and the deeper, innate anxieties that accompany change.

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IRDA Winner Lilianne Milgrom: “I don’t believe that ‘becoming an author’ is a conscious decision.”

In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the most iconic images in the history of art: a sexually explicit portrait of a woman’s exposed genitals.  Audaciously titled “L’Origine du monde”, the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a half.

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