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IR Approved Author Courtney Lochner: “Being an indie author means you’re doing your own marketing, but the reality is, you’d be doing the same with a big publisher.”

Designed to offer a simulated experience of studying abroad, the French House at the University of Wisconsin instead repeatedly falls victim to tragedy.

9 Creative and Cost-Effective Marketing Ideas for Indie Authors

Indie authors often have limited budgets for promoting their books. However, there are many cost-effective and creative ways for authors to market their books and reach new readers. 

Advice from IR Approved Author Will Bowron: “Get out of your own way.”

In a city where masked vigilantes enacting their own form of justice is common and accepted, a reporter pursues the man who started the vigilante movement.

IR Approved Author Brent Monahan: “The best part [of being indie] is that I can write about topics that interest me instead of being tied to a certain readership.”

Although set in the capital of the Third Reich in the closing days of W. W. II, Escaping Berlin is not a war story.

IR Approved Author Katherine Villyard Tells All About Her Book

Love Stories is a collection of seven previously published and five previously unpublished short stories centered on a theme of love.

Advice from IR Approved Author Caroline E Rayfield: “Promote the book before it’s even published. Hit the ground running.”

The Adventures of Milo Chow is a collection of 9 short stories following the life of Milo Chow and his family.

Advice from IR Approved Author Peter B. Dunfield: “Create a writing schedule for yourself, make that time and space sacred, and then dive in and create your stories.”

The book is about a girl named Avie, who time-travels by reading herself into the storyline of books.

IR Approved Author Benjamin Harnett Tells All About his Book

THE HAPPY VALLEY is about a young girl who discovers a defunct secret society in her hometown connected to her family, and then sets about reviving it.

IR Approved Author Joseph Howse: “The freedom to take risks is both the best and the hardest part of being independent.”

The book introduces a multilayered story of family, society, and nature, centring on a Soviet girl, Nadia, who, one day on a remote beach, looks up from her book to see that her friend is...