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Advice from IR Approved Author Keith Edward Vaughn: “After you decide how you want to distribute your book, begin designing and formatting immediately, because it takes forever.”

To save his business, druggy Los Angeles private investigator Ellis Dunaway searches for a missing smuggler who works for a vicious cartel.

Writer’s Block

Over the decades, I have been asked this question more times than I can count. “How do I get past my writer’s block?”

Advice from IR Approved Author Bryan Wilson: “The best thing I did was run a free book promotion stacked with ads on book discount sites the second week my novel was released.”

When alien spacecraft wreak havoc across Earth’s contemporary skies, ordinary college student, Colton Samson, must not only come to grips with the loss he faces but also the revelations made.

IR Approved Author Christine Fallert Kessides: “I hadn’t realized that publicity and marketing would become almost as much a preoccupation as the actual writing.” 

A teenager in 1916 Pittsburgh surmounts crises in her German immigrant family during WWI and the Spanish flu.

Advice from IR Approved Author Anita Finlay: “Don’t ever write because you’re trying to fulfill someone else’s idea of who or what you should be.”

YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND YOU STOLE MY BRA is the moving, riveting, and often hilarious memoir of a woman who found a most unlikely way to heal her relationship with her mercurial mother.

Advice from IR Approved Author Diane Meyer Lowman: “really think about what you want for and from your book before you even begin to investigate publishing options.” 

Join Diane Meyer Lowman, an empty-nester from suburban Connecticut, on her daring journey of self-discovery at the age of 57. In search of fulfillment and purpose, Diane embarks on a life-changing adventure: a senior year...

Best Reviewed Books — August

August

Advice from IR Approved Author Stephen Maitland-Lewis: “Revise and rewrite and have an experienced editor and a public relations/marketing guru in your corner.”

In the spring of 1959, a seemingly minor mistake in a wire transfer at a Swiss bank leads to the discovery of a plot by the CIA to launch a nuclear attack on he leaders...

Advice from IR Approved Author Daniel J. Davies: “Write. Remember to find delight in the actual thing, itself.”

This is the story of interrogator Emma Ripley, and her relationship with a suicide bomber who survives.