IR Approved Author Thomas H. Goodfellow: “No one should ever tell an artist what to do, which makes it nice I do not have to deal with traditional publishers.”

PTSD makes  for an unreliable  narrator and a wild — at times surreal — ride in this military who-done-it

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Thomas H. Goodfellow: “No one should ever tell an artist what to do, which makes it nice I do not have to deal with traditional publishers.”

Thoughts from IR Approved Author Sam Harris: “I made the decision to go indie [after being published by a major traditional publisher] for many reasons, and we shall see how this plays out.”

When Theo Dalton is six years old, his hands are irreparably damaged in a horrific car accident that takes his mother’s life. Six years later, during the sweltering summer of 1968 in rural Oklahoma, Theo meets Frank, a Native American outcast, and learns that he has the ability to heal through his disfigured hands.

Continue ReadingThoughts from IR Approved Author Sam Harris: “I made the decision to go indie [after being published by a major traditional publisher] for many reasons, and we shall see how this plays out.”

Advice from IR Approved Author Steve Searls: “Expect a lot of rejection, but don’t take it personally…”

"My Travels With a Dead Man" is a literary novel that blends fantasy and magical realism in the coming of age story of Jane Takako Wolfsheim, a young woman who takes up with an enigmatic man going by the name Jorge Luis Borges.

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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.

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

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.

Continue ReadingIR 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.”