Read more about the article IR Approved Author Mike Murphey on his Motivation: “You must write because you need to do it.”

IR Approved Author Mike Murphey on his Motivation: “You must write because you need to do it.”

The year is 2044. Housed in a secret complex beneath the eastern Arizona desert, a consortium of governments and corporations have undertaken a program on the scale of the Manhattan Project to bludgeon the laws of physics into submission and make time travel a reality.

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Read more about the article IR Approved Author Merms on What Motivates Her: “…the fear that if I don’t write down the ideas that are swimming around in my head, I’ll forget them.”

IR Approved Author Merms on What Motivates Her: “…the fear that if I don’t write down the ideas that are swimming around in my head, I’ll forget them.”

When an autocratic regime starts to take more drastic measures against protesters a small group of rebels takes to the ocean along the coasts of France and Portugal to keep their cause going. George, a self-proclaimed cynic follows them out to sea where he struggles to deal with the unpleasant situation he’s managed to find himself in.

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Read more about the article IR Approved Authors David and Emberli Pridham on their aim “to show [kids] that no dream is too big, and no dreamer too small to succeed.” 

IR Approved Authors David and Emberli Pridham on their aim “to show [kids] that no dream is too big, and no dreamer too small to succeed.” 

Brooke Fairley is an inquisitive, creative 9-year-old with an eye for inventing. Inspired by her grandfather and their mutual delight in how inventions come to be discovered, Brooke looks for ways to improve the world around her and joyfully sets out to imagine her own.

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Read more about the article IR Approved Author Cathy Carlton Hews on what Motivates her: “I’m endlessly fascinated by the human condition.”

IR Approved Author Cathy Carlton Hews on what Motivates her: “I’m endlessly fascinated by the human condition.”

I got the call five years ago from my small town local pharmacy. “Cathy, your father is wandering around the store opening his wallet and asking where the cat food is.”  From the 14th floor of my New York City cubicle, I sigh into the phone, “Put him on.” 

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Read more about the article IR Approved Author Michele Levy on What Motivates Her: “…the desire to tell stories that deal with issues still upending our world today.”

IR Approved Author Michele Levy on What Motivates Her: “…the desire to tell stories that deal with issues still upending our world today.”

It’s 1968. The world is in turmoil. So is twenty-thee-year-old Anna Rossi, who questions everything about her life, from her mostly Jewish heritage to her fear of intimacy.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Michele Levy on What Motivates Her: “…the desire to tell stories that deal with issues still upending our world today.”