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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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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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.

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Advice from IR Approved Authors Laura C. Browne + Jill L. Ferguson: “Know your audience and what they need.”

In a contemporary Cinderella story following the lives of three best friends, readers and El and Leticia and Teresa learn how to love themselves first and then how to love someone else.

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IR Approved Author Lawrence Ricketts on his book “The Darkest of Games”

A top secret ‘International Security Operations’ (ISO), established to infiltrate and dismantle major criminal and terrorist networks has been compromised, and a number of its operatives killed as they commenced their operations.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Jill Caugherty: “Be persistent, and don’t get discouraged.”

Growing up in a strict Utah farm family during the Great Depression, Irene Larsen copes with her family’s hardship by playing piano. Even after an unthinkable tragedy strikes, Irene clings to her dream of becoming a musician. When a neighbor's farm is foreclosed, Irene's brother marries the neighbor's daughter, who moves in with the Larsens and coaches Irene into winning leading roles in musicals.

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Redwood

Don't miss this gruff former-military warrior and the woman who doesn't believe she deserves a second chance. REDWOOD is a full-length novel with no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a happily-ever-after guaranteed!

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