IRDA Winner Dylan Meikle on “Learning in Lockdown: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Young Children Thrive During Campus Closure”

This book offers parents of young children  - who are dealing with teaching their own kids at home due to school closures - advice, advocacy and a huge dollop of empathy!

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IRDA Winner Sarah Mattern: “It’s easy to be fast and flexible as an indie, but there are many gaps of knowledge to fill in along the way.” 

"Dust and Mud" is about a young woman, Ellie Dray, who goes to prison for an ecoterrorist bombing at her university.

Continue ReadingIRDA Winner Sarah Mattern: “It’s easy to be fast and flexible as an indie, but there are many gaps of knowledge to fill in along the way.” 

IRDA Winner Daniel Scarpati: “I’m much less interested in fortune or fame than I am being involved in telling terrific stories that others can appreciate.”

"Gofers" puts the jobs and lives of entry-level film and TV production assistants (PAs for short, a.k.a. “gofers”) in the spotlight!

Continue ReadingIRDA Winner Daniel Scarpati: “I’m much less interested in fortune or fame than I am being involved in telling terrific stories that others can appreciate.”

IRDA Winner Jorge Sanchez: “I really enjoy it when the readers comment how much they laughed, or cried, or that they had a fun ride.”

After a rare fungus turns people into zombies, a man travels the post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of his daughter.

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IRDA Winning Author Cori Willams: “The beauty of diversity is not gathering different and diverse people and trying to make them act the same way.”

"Thriving While Black” sets out to explore the psychological and emotional consequences of being Black in corporate America.

Continue ReadingIRDA Winning Author Cori Willams: “The beauty of diversity is not gathering different and diverse people and trying to make them act the same way.”