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Advice from IR Approved Author Scott T. Barnes: “By serving others in this way, it will give meaning to your work even when you aren’t selling what you’d hoped.”

In CHAOS WOODS, the first book of the Chronicles of the Ever-Guise, Scott T. Barnes delivers a richly imagined, character-driven coming-of-age fantasy that balances cozy adventure with thoughtful themes of morality, addiction, and the consequences...

7 Marketing Strategies for Building Your Audience and Selling More Books

One of the biggest challenges for writers nowadays is that they have to compete with all of the content available to audiences online.

Advice from IR Approved Author David Gittlin: “When I turned 50, I decided to write fiction. I started with screenplays and graduated to novels.”

David Glitten’s riveting science fiction novel THE ANDROBIOTICA ADVENTURES follows an investigator chasing a case across dimensions as artificial intelligence and androids reshape the world.

Advice from IR Approved Author Michael Pronko: “I wander around the city and pick up possible bits and pieces of life in Tokyo, which might be the wellspring of writing.”

Michael Pronko's TOKYO JUKU brings a city to life, populates it with fully rounded characters, and drives a compelling narrative with meticulous plotting.

Advice from IR Approved Author Daniel C. Davis: “Keep creating and refining your craft. Seek constructive criticism, not just praise. Growth comes from stretching yourself and learning from honest feedback.”

Daniel C. Davis’s THE QUEST HOME is a fluid contemporary memoir that offers practical takeaways for relationship maintenance.

Advice from IR Approved Author Leon E. Pettiway: “The best advice is to stay patient and keep honing your craft.”

Set in the Jim Crow era, Leon E. Pettiway’s NEW HARMONY: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss exposes the painful web of actions that precede racial violence.

Advice from IR Approved Author Matthew A. Tower: “Take a break from everything and go somewhere you enjoy to ponder and write for at least one week.”

Matthew A. Tower’s LOVE WARS: Clash of the Parents details the aftermath of an exceptionally acrimonious divorce, the pain of generational trauma, and the possibility of redemption.

6 Tips for Pitching to Local Media + How to Do It Effectively

Marketing your book to the media is a great way to get exposure for your book. And while you may be tempted to go after the big national outlets right out of the gate, don’t...

Advice from IR Approved Author A.K. Kubica: “Life is full of the opportunity for risk-taking. If you always play it safe, you will never learn or grow.”

In the opening pages of A.K. Kubica’s CREED OF LEGENDS, it seems as though a dire future is laid out in prophecy for Brudais: death at the hands of the king he will eventually serve....