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14 Creative Ideas for a Successful Pre-Order Campaign

As you create your book marketing plan, you may be thinking about doing a pre-order as a way of getting some early sales. But it takes more than just making your book available for a...

Advice from IR Approved Author Domenic Aversa: “Spend as much time learning about the publishing/marketing/selling side of the business as you do writing.”

  Corporate Undertaker: Business Lessons from the Dead and Dying received a 4+ star review, making it an IndieReader Approved title. Following find an interview with author Domenic Aversa. What is the name of the...

IR Approved Author Tom Blanton: “If I can do this [self publish], anyone can do it.”

On its face, "The Message in the Painted Rock" is the story of the hero journey of a couple of resourceful teenagers who are drawn by a weird old man into his quest for an...

IR Approved Author Heather Allen: “Positive feedback is pleasant, but it doesn’t result in growth or change.”

After a sudden and violent takeover by the brutal Khmer Rouge army, there is a mass exodus of the city. Separated from her family, a young pharmacy student is held captive at a work camp...

IR Approved Author Carol Es: “Write because you love to. Write because you have to.” 

"Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley" is a guided tour through a Tilt-A-Whirl life that takes so many turns that you may find yourself looking up from the pages and wondering how the hell one...

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March Madness

As IR Approved Author Alaric Thain is not currently alive answers to the questions below have been provided by “Artie”, an AI entity who knew the author well.

"Alaric Thain’s History of the 21st Century" recounts the events of the pivotal 21st century in a way that can be understood by people of the 29th century, who live in what could be considered...

Advice from IR Approved Author Leslie Baer: “If you can afford it, hire a marketing firm eight months prior to your book release, not after!”

"Hope Dancing" is the astounding true story of a young woman’s courage and persistence despite threats, extortion and her own kidnapping, to save lives during Guatemala’s brutal civil war and postwar, to establish a thriving...

IR Approved Author Beatrice DeSoprontu: “People don’t regret failure so much as they regret the countless possibilities lost due to the impotence of trepidation.”

On the surface, VICES/VIRTUES is about Cristela Davila, a bright young woman who works at a real estate office by day and moonlights at a professional S/M dungeon at night.