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May

Announcing the 2024 Discovery Awards Winners!

Today the winners of the 13th annual “IndieReader Discovery Awards” (IRDAs) were announced virtually to consumers and international media.

IR Approved Author Michelle Tocher: “I’m interested in the psychological, spiritual states we inhabit, and the way we make sense of our life experience.”

When Molly was a little girl, she adored her glamorous aunt who told her enchanting fairy tales. But one day she told Molly a disturbing story about a tiny maiden who was destined to live...

Advice from IR Approved Author Michael J. Gowers: “Oversee everything, and give yourself plenty of time to decide what you like and what is right for your book.”

The Gates of Dawn is a descriptive and fast paced thriller, telling of man’s primeval fascination with art, and how some, whose obsession is to garner all such beauty for themselves, will stop at nothing...

Advice from IR Approved Author Bonnie Jacoby: “Write what you love. You’ll be spending a lot of time with this story so it better be something that interests you.”

When dragons return to a world that blames them for the plague, a teen girl with new empathic powers and a teen dragon trying to prove himself must work together to save dragons from extinction.

Advice from IR Approved Author Marius Trevelean: “Research everything. Whether that’s writing or the peripheral activity that surrounds it.”

SiP is a comedic sci-fi adventure for middle school kids about a giant drinking straw that appears from orbit and begins to drink the Atlantic Ocean.

IR Approved Author Jennifer Hayes Tells All About Her Book

The Extraordinary Imagination of Jenny Figment is about a little girl with a big imagination. She navigates a world filled with pocket-sized dragons, rainbow colored “pixie toads,” and perhaps most notably her best ghost friends.

Advice from IR Approved Author Jim Frazee: “If you love to write, you will continue to do it despite the challenges.”

A teen runaway, wrongly accused of his brother’s murder in an arson, tracks down the killer, only to discover more than he could have bargained for about his family, his girlfriend, and the real target...

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My point, of course, is that if you want to be a writer, be a writer. Stop treating it as a hobby.