IR Approved Author Christie Nicholls: “When I’m writing – I turn off my phone and cover it with peanut butter.”

ELEPHANTS IN MY ROOM is comprised of 17 true stories/personal essays of embarrassing and personal nature. Most of the stories are exceptionally funny, and a few are real tear-jerkers.

Continue ReadingIR Approved Author Christie Nicholls: “When I’m writing – I turn off my phone and cover it with peanut butter.”

IR Approved Author Vincent Panettiere: “I’m in competition with myself to tell a compelling story.”

The Chicago Police Department determines that the death of a racehorse and its trainer is a murder/suicide.  Detective Mike Hegan refuses to accept such a facile and lazy explanation. 

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Advice from IR Approved Author Laura Preble: “Be prepared to work much, much harder AFTER you’re finished writing the book. And don’t quit your day job. Yet.”

"Anna Incognito" is a heady cocktail of mental illness, obsessive love, hitchhiking and redemption, all wrapped in a powder-blue Cadillac El Dorado. 

Continue ReadingAdvice from IR Approved Author Laura Preble: “Be prepared to work much, much harder AFTER you’re finished writing the book. And don’t quit your day job. Yet.”

Wise Words from IR Approved Author Susan Kraus: “It is never too late to make a dream a reality. (But it is damn hard work.)”

“Insufficient Evidence” is about campus sexual assault in hook-up culture, told through the eyes and experiences of young women, a therapist, perpetrators, friends …  and a core cast of characters as this is the 3rd novel in a series.

Continue ReadingWise Words from IR Approved Author Susan Kraus: “It is never too late to make a dream a reality. (But it is damn hard work.)”