Advice from IRDA-Winning Author Mark Steven Porro: “Find the joy not only in the writing and editing but in the marketing as well. No matter how good your book is, you’ve got to get the word out.”

"A Cup of Tea on the Commode" is a beautiful testament to a son's love and devotion for his mother as he navigates her last years.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Ava Zacardi: “It’s a journey. Enjoy the ride. Be proud of what you’ve accomplished.”

Life is an art. A well-lived life is a masterpiece. Julia DeRosa, an artist at a crossroads, longs to fill the negative spaces in her life with new beginnings.

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IRDA-Winning Author SL Beaumont Tells All About Her Book

Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who’s on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. Rachel Talbot, a globetrotting photojournalist, ventures into the heart of a fractured Berlin in search of the Stasi officer whom her beloved grandmother Mae blames for betraying their family.

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Advice from IR Approved Author Mark Sabbas: “Follow your passion and calling at any cost, without fear of judgment, ridicule, or failure.”

Centered upon seventeen-year-old Samuel Helen who is among the first in a wave of “new youth” children born into a war-ravaged world with large, bright eyes and extraordinary psychic abilities, The Monarchs is an action-packed tale of adventure, romance, bravery, and spiritual transformation suitable for both teenagers and adults.

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IRDA Winning Author Matt Ingwalson Tells All About His Book

The Nihilisticats is like The Crying of Lot 49 with deep fakes. Or Mr. Robot with a sense of humor. It’s about Americans searching for answers in a world where identity and truth have been obliterated by cyberscams, terrorism and conspiracies so vast they aren’t really conspiracies anymore. They’re just the way the world works. 

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Advice from IR Approved Author Merlin Goldman: “Don’t try to do it all yourself if you want great results.”

Want Do Get is a comprehensive guide to writing better screenplays. It contains many useful tools and techniques that will help any writer to produce more entertaining and well-structured scripts. Readers will also find it a useful guide for other types of storytelling, such as plays and novels. 

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Catch the Sun

A brand new YA standalone survivor romance from Jennifer Hartmann, the fan-favorite author of Still Beating, Lotus, and June First, packed with the same light-in-the-dark hope for healing in the face of tragedy. Perfect for fans of If He Had Been With Me, A Thousand Boy Kisses, and Binding 13.

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Editor Diane Gottlieb Tells All About Her IRDA-Winning Book

What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness is truly a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph, pleasures and pain, challenges, resilience, and growth.

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IRDA Winning Author Christopher Hawkins Tells All About His Book

"Downpour" is about a family that becomes trapped in an isolated farmhouse when a strange rain begins to fall that literally eats away at their home and turns everyone around them into monsters. They were already a family in crisis before the rain began to fall, and the question becomes whether they can survive and, if they do, what will it do to them as a family.

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