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Advice from IR Approved Author Steve Searls: “Expect a lot of rejection, but don’t take it personally…”

"My Travels With a Dead Man" is a literary novel that blends fantasy and magical realism in the coming of age story of Jane Takako Wolfsheim, a young woman who takes up with an enigmatic...

Advice from IR Approved Author Paul Corson: “Keep on truckin’”.

"Regaining Paradise" is about adding another dimension of understanding to our lives that involves seeing ourselves from within a much larger perspective.

The Great Mystery of the Amazon Ad Keyword

For a few years now there have been many theories about which keywords are the fairest in the Amazon Advertising Lands.

IR Approved Author Jacqueline Ruby Tells All About “The Code”

An unsuccessful, handsome college professor and a hip-hop gangster have to navigate the whirlwinds of prison, social media, vast wealth, notoriety and the meaning of manhood in the 21st. century. Chaos ensues.

IR Approved Author Mike Murphey on his Motivation: “You must write because you need to do it.”

The year is 2044. Housed in a secret complex beneath the eastern Arizona desert, a consortium of governments and corporations have undertaken a program on the scale of the Manhattan Project to bludgeon the laws...

IR Approved Author Merms on What Motivates Her: “…the fear that if I don’t write down the ideas that are swimming around in my head, I’ll forget them.”

When an autocratic regime starts to take more drastic measures against protesters a small group of rebels takes to the ocean along the coasts of France and Portugal to keep their cause going. George, a...

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...

9 Steps to Glowing Book Endorsements

By Sandra Beckwith What’s your plan for snagging compelling testimonials for your book? Too many authors don’t pursue book “blurbs,” those essential endorsements and testimonials from people who influence your book’s target audience. That’s a...

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...