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Advice from IR Approved Author Jonathan Harries: “Write every day. Even if it’s only revising a paragraph and writing one new sentence.”

Finding out that your family has been in the assassination business for seventy generations may come as a surprise. Realizing that you’re expected to take over is enough to make anyone lose their lunch.

Advice from IR Approved Author Deb Pines: “Stop waiting for some outside validation to say you’re a writer. If you want to be a writer, get going!”

When socialite Connie de Palma turns up dead in a gorge near the Chautauqua summer arts community in 2019, many friends and family look guilty. The cops don’t suspect foul play. So, luckily, local reporter...

PR Pro Offers Indie Authors Excellent Book Promotion Tips + Ways to Better Navigate the High Publicity Seas

PR Pro Sandra Poirier Smith explains what she [Smith Publicity] does, what mistakes new authors make and why every author should be on GoodReads.

Advice from IR Approved Author Jeff Shaw: “Never give up. That goes for both writing your story and learning the craft.”

I’ve learned that most people really don’t understand what a police officer does every day and how it affects them personally. I want to show those people the true horrors, the brutal things one man...

Advice from IR Approved Author Laurie Dennis: “Promotion is the only way to get the word out on the story you’ve spent so much time telling.”

A sweeping coming-of-age epic, "The Lacquered Talisman" launches the story of one of the most influential figures in Chinese history.  He is the son of a bean curd seller, a survivor of the pox and...

IR Approved Author Suzanne Tierney: “I write to connect with readers”

During WWI, a woman runs away from home, changes her name, fakes her nursing credentials, joins an ambulance hospital on the frontlines of France, and falls in love with an enigmatic doctor who may be...

IR Approved Author WG Hladky: “Approach the editing process as an opportunity to revisit old friends and haunts.”

THE FLASHFALL SWORD is a prequel to THE BOOK OF RUIN. Senior Chief Weir’s great-grandfather, Ranger Lovecraft Weir, wields his Flashfall sword in the service of NATO at a time when a Dark Age torments...

5 Great Tips: A Beginner’s Guide to Author Branding

Congratulations! Now that you are a published author, you have something in common with Coca Cola, Nike, and even J.K. Rowling: you are a public entity.

IR Approved Author Bruce J. Berger: “I don’t think there’s much difference between being published by a large publisher and an indie. One spends a lot of time on marketing. Period.”

Greek siblings separated by the Holocaust rediscover each other after almost five decades and give each other new reasons to live.