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Book Marketing Gold: Street Teams, Super Fans + Micro Influencers (Oh My!)

By Penny C. Sansevieri, Founder and CEO of Author Marketing Experts, Inc., is a bestselling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. Did you know that 95% of books are sold via...

Advice from IRDA Winning Author Brian D McLean: “Stay focused and committed to your project: See it through to completion. I think, that in itself, is probably the greatest reward.”

The motivating influence for Our Global Crisis was not derived from a typical source of inspiration, such as a single event or a feeling. In fact, it evolved slowly over the course of the last...

IRDA Winning Author C.V. Vobh Tells All About His Book

Somnus’ Palace is about a modern young man named Proto, who wakes up in the misty blue palace of the Lord of Dreams.  He doesn’t know how he got there, but he’s assigned a new...

Author Amanjot Kaur Tells All About her IRDA Winning Book

They say cats have nine lives, but time is running out for Seal! She never imagined anything beyond suburban life, her daily work in the Cat Orphanage, and putting up with Supervisor Mota's demands.

Author Karin Adams Tells All About her IRDA-Winning Book

When you want to write a novel, you don’t want to read another book about writing—you want to WRITE! My fun, inspiring fiction writing guide is based on my live and in-person creative writing workshops...

IRDA Winning Author Melody Hicks on her Motivation: “…simply seeing that others are enjoying the stories, that they found something with the characters that resonates with them…”

Dr. Shannon Murphy never planned to become a goddess. Heck, she didn't even know they existed. A steamy night with a bad boy unlocks her genetics and tumbles her into dangerous mythological worlds and powers...

IRDA Winning Author Manon Rinsma: “What truly motivates me isn’t fame or fortune—it’s the power of connection and healing through storytelling.”

Feeling like she no longer belonged, a young woman sets off on a backpacking journey across four continents to confront her buried grief, mend her wounded soul, and uncover the resilience needed to rewrite her...

IRDA Winning Author Barbara Black on her Motivation: “My life would be nothing without the arts.”

Poetic and quirky, surreal and unsettling, the carefully crafted fictions in Little Fortified Stories range from 50-word micros to flash narratives and a few hybrids in between.

IRDA Winning Author Carla Conti Tells All About Her Book

A journalist writing a prison abuse exposé is imperiled by association after two prison gangs issue “hit orders” against the subject of her book.