Advice from IR Approved Author Emma Renault: “Write the story you want to tell, the story you’re passionate about.”

"Kaliko On The Shoals" is about a college-age lesbian working through sexual trauma and coming to terms with the contradictions of capitalism, told through the lens of her relationship with her long-term girlfriend.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Anne Marie Bennett: “Don’t try to do it alone!”

"Dragonflies at Night" is about two thirty-somethings: Savannah plans life celebrations; Ben is an international celebrity. On one level, it’s a tender, bright romance; but—like the subtitle says, this is not your average love story.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Kenneth Thomas: “Give yourself time to launch well…get time off the month before and after releasing your book.”

"The Past" is the first book in the VanWest series, a fast-paced thriller about an Enforcer who lives in a dystopian Earth of the year 3000 and works for an authoritarian ruler called the Universal Council.

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IR Approved Author David Hartshorn on finding “a way to accept life as it is…”

Life has turned sour for Jake Taylor. Recent misfortunes have caused him to abandon a thriving Philadelphia law practice, as well as his love interest of more than twenty years, and retreat to his hometown in Jackson Meadows, New Hampshire.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Madeleine Van Hecke: “Work with an experienced developmental editor.”

Quick-tempered, Irish-Catholic Colleen Moretti wants a close-knit family more than anything in the world. But when a letter arrives that jeopardizes her marriage, she must deal with a betrayal that splits her family apart and threatens to unravel it entirely.

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