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IRDA Winner Eva Frances Tells All About Her Book: “The Next Round is a beach read through and through.”

The Next Round is a friends-to-lovers, second-chance romance written in a dual timeline. It follows the story of two friends before and after their more-than-friendship ruptured.

IRDA Winning Author Kim Hays: “Since I was a child, reading books by my favorite authors has given me immense pleasure. I like the idea that one of my books could make a reader that happy.”

Andi Eberhart is biking home on an icy winter night when she is killed in a hit-and-run. Her devastated partner, Nisha, is convinced the death was no accident since Andi had been receiving homophobic hate...

IRDA Winning Author Paul Redvers Brown: “The struggle of immigrants trying to succeed without abandoning their country of birth is a story everyone needs to understand and appreciate.”

A teenage boy promises his Italian grandfather that he will write a book about him. Fifty years later, he does and is shocked by what he discovers.

IRDA Winner Angela Chaidez Vincent: “If you enjoy narrative poems featuring bad-ass women, lyricism in language, formal variety, strange inventiveness, humor, and an indomitable spirit, you will enjoy this book.”

Arena Glow sings the women of the arena: the rodeo arena, the cockpit of a small plane, the boys’ club of engineering, the confines of a murderous board game, the Colosseum in which women also...

Teena Hostovich Tells All About her IRDA-Winning Book

It's a combo advice book for men and women about building a career in corporate America, investing, building a life, interspersed with some of my life lessons.

IRDA Winning Author Thom Kudla: “I am motivated by understanding myself and the world. Most importantly, I am driven by an undying desire to find meaning in what more often than not seems like what Camus would call “the benign indifference of the universe.”

Waking Up at the Gates is an epiphanic poetic journey from the deathly daily grind of the working world to the imaginative mindscapes of creative rebirth. This book guided me through a fatally difficult time...

Do You Really Need an Author Newsletter in 2025?

In 2025, the advice to "start a newsletter" is still everywhere in the indie author world… but is it truly the best way to connect with readers?

IRDA Winning Author Melanie Hooyenga: “Anyone looking for a unique twist on the missing sibling trope with more than one gasp-inducing twist should read Eve’s story.”

All Eve Ellaway wants is to escape to college, start a life of her own, and finally sever the connection to her twin sister Gen who disappeared when they were babies. Because while the rest...

IRDA Winning Author J. Wint: “The goal was to give this book a unique premise.”

Eighteen-year-old Brindall Harper finds that becoming an immortal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Now he must survive long enough to save his family, his friends, and perhaps the human race . . .