IR Approved Author Vincent Fudge II’s Motivation: “The appetite to inspire and teach others from my lessons learned.”

SMART Love an educational narrative that focuses on relational improvement by establishing healthy behaviors in a relationship emphasizing effective communication techniques, measuring progress, relational accountability, and alignment on relationship goals.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Vincent Fudge II’s Motivation: “The appetite to inspire and teach others from my lessons learned.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Tim Darcy Ellis: “You need to get the balance between ‘don’t give up on your day job’ and ‘don’t give up on your dream.'”

"The Secret Diaries Of Juan Luis Vives" chronicles the epoch-making adventures of the real-life great Spanish humanist, Juan Luis Vives.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Tim Darcy Ellis: “You need to get the balance between ‘don’t give up on your day job’ and ‘don’t give up on your dream.'”

Advice from IR Approved Author R. Peter Keith: “Make a plan and follow it. Adjust things along the way, but execute your plan.” 

It’s “What if Carl Sagan had done “Star Trek”?  WINE DARK DEEP is a grounded sci-fi action adventure with real science at the heart of some of it’s big challenges.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author R. Peter Keith: “Make a plan and follow it. Adjust things along the way, but execute your plan.” 

Advice from IR Approved Author Elaine Alec: “Be fearless.”

Calling My Spirit Back is an exceptional piece of Canadian writing by an Indigenous author that addresses our particular period in Canadian history when the conversations about systemic racism and abuse of women and the historical and ongoing trauma of our First Nations are finally starting to resonate beyond their typical boundaries. 

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Advice from IR Approved Author Dana McSwain: “Believe in yourself and believe in your story.”

Georgia Pritchard’s dream house has a dead child in the attic and a monster in the basement but she can’t tell her husband because she’s not sure it’s really him anymore.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Dana McSwain: “Believe in yourself and believe in your story.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Jonathan Harries: “Write every day. Even if it’s only revising a paragraph and writing one new sentence.”

Finding out that your family has been in the assassination business for seventy generations may come as a surprise. Realizing that you’re expected to take over is enough to make anyone lose their lunch.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Jonathan Harries: “Write every day. Even if it’s only revising a paragraph and writing one new sentence.”

Quitless

QUITLESS is a comprehensive anthology of some of the most successful, die-hard, and tirelessly working entrepreneurs in the world. Together they weave a compelling narrative about the cruciality of learning to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and get back in the game.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Deb Pines: “Stop waiting for some outside validation to say you’re a writer. If you want to be a writer, get going!”

When socialite Connie de Palma turns up dead in a gorge near the Chautauqua summer arts community in 2019, many friends and family look guilty. The cops don’t suspect foul play. So, luckily, local reporter and relentless snoop Mimi Goldman is on the case — following clues to more clues, to dead ends and danger, to solve this extra-tricky whodunit, the seventh in a series.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Deb Pines: “Stop waiting for some outside validation to say you’re a writer. If you want to be a writer, get going!”

Advice from IR Approved Author Jeff Shaw: “Never give up. That goes for both writing your story and learning the craft.”

I’ve learned that most people really don’t understand what a police officer does every day and how it affects them personally. I want to show those people the true horrors, the brutal things one man can do to another, and how it feels to bring those memories home at night.

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Jeff Shaw: “Never give up. That goes for both writing your story and learning the craft.”