IRDA Winning Author Eli N. Weintraub: “My motivation is helping others avoid suffering from PTSD…”

In 1976 Nancy Weintraub set out with a friend, against her parents’ wishes, to spend a year in San Miguel de Allende attending art school. Nancy was in heaven as she experienced international travel and the art scene, but a horrific accident in a lonely Mexican desert took away her life as she knew it.

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IRDA Winning Author Michael Dane: “I hope that all marginalized people–not only the LGBT community–will find value and comfort in this honest account and perhaps feel less alone.”

In this current climate of post-truth and subjective reality it is important that we recognize our past and the challenges that ignited the gay rights movement at a time when we were invisible. In HomoAmerican - The Secret Society I remember that time.

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IRDA Winning Author Mike Murphey: “The hardest part [of being indie] is finding a place in this vast marketplace.”

The lives of three friends are shattered by the murder of a classmate during their sophomore year of high school in a small town on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico where life is defined by straight roads and straight laces.

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IRDA Winning Author João Cerqueira: “Humor is my weapon against the things I dislike.”

"Jesus and Magdalene" is about ecology, racial conflicts and, especially, human nature. Jesus meets a modern Magdalene that fights for a better world – although using questionable methods – that would take him into a journey of conflict and madness.

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What To Write About on Your Author Blog (With Blog Topics Inside)

“But I spend all day writing books and newsletters, do I really need to write a blog too?”  I’m sure you’ve had this thought more than once in your author career. With all the things you should be doing every day to make the most of your writing, it’s hard to run a blog as a marketing tool. 

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IRDA Winning Author Claire Chao: “We want to leave our readers with a strong sense of forgiveness, redemption and optimism.”

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels follows five generations of my family over two centuries, from my great-great-grandfather down to me.

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IRDA Winning Author G.K. Brady on the best part of being indie: “…the ability to write the stories I want and know they’ll be published.”

Beckett's a pro hockey player whose bad boy ways cause him to lose everything. In his struggle for redemption, he falls for the only woman who wants nothing to do with him.

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IRDA Winning Author C. R. Stewart: “There is no downside [to being an indie author]”..

Britfield & the Lost Crown is an award-winning, fast-paced middle school adventure novel that transports the reader from the smoldering crags of Yorkshire, through the heart of England, and finally to the magnificent shores of Dover.

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