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Author Jeff Wiemiller Tells All About his 2022 IRDA Winning Book

Driven by a deathbed request from his beloved grandmother, a gay Midwesterner attempts to reconcile with his mom, at the risk of losing her forever to the empty splendors of a ritzy retirement community.

The primary inspiration for [the 2022 IRDA-Winning] “Pushing Pawns” was my son’s experiences as a brown kid growing up New York City. 

Why chess? Why now?

Announcing the 2022 Discovery Awards Winners!

Meet the winners of the 2023 IRDAs!

IR Approved Author E. R. Harris on his motivation: “The desire to see fans of my genre ENJOYING my work.”

A space opera of the highest magnitude, Surf the Milky Way follows a rag tag group of five surfers who travel around on their spaceship the Planet Hopper seeking out the best waves in the...

Advice from IR Approved Author Ernest L Canning: “Keep writing. Even if you don’t think it will go anywhere, keep writing.”

"The Bean Sidhe" is a book about a little man that felt cheated and abused by life, he felt powerless to change his own fate, but felt compelled to put his finger on the scale...

Advice from IR Approved Author Fata Ariu Levi: “Make a commitment and turn it into a habit.”

The first documented history of the culture of the Polynesian Navigators, the Samoan and Manu'an, of the Archipelago in Polynesia took place around 1830 after the arrival of Christianity by the European Missionaries.

IR Approved Author N.K. von S.: “Fiction exists for its own reasons. I don’t think it has to make a point.”

It's about a feminist anti-hero who fails upward, boarding the Washington DC revolving door as a prominent medtech lobbyist, spit out as a high-level technocrat in the Bureau of Biomedicaltechnology.

IR Approved Author Sandy Gerber Tells All About Her Book

In this life-changing book, communications expert Sandy Gerber reveals how, by understanding the Four Emotional Magnets that motivate people to listen and act, she transformed her relationships—and how you can do the same.

12 Ways to Turn Your Website Into a 24/7 Sales Machine

Is your website working for you? Is it helping you sell more books? So many authors really don’t know the answer to this question. And with so many options out there for websites, how do...