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IRDA Winner Heather Joy on her motivation: “…readers finding a connection.” 

MMMM: and the music that made me can make a reader cry, laugh, and yell at the author for being an idiot - all in one chapter! The essays range from motherhood to men, media to...

IRDA Winner Colleen Mitchell: “Independent stories like this one don’t have big marketing teams—they thrive because of readers who crave something real, raw, and different.”

Passion and peril collide when Rowan narrowly escapes execution for a crime she didn’t commit, with the help of Casimir—a vampire knight seeking redemption.

Author Karl Sebastian Tells All About His IRDA Winning Book

Although most might want to boil down the book to a seemingly impossible story of overcoming extreme obesity. At it's base value, the book is a story of my life. Destroying it until it was...

First Place IRDA Winner Ana Hebra Flaster: “I think if you’re born to write, you can’t not write. I think I’ve always had this story in me, and I’ve been telling it all my life.”

Property of the Revolution is about losing your home, family, and identity in the span of 24 hours and recreating yourself again out of cold, foreign earth.

Author Ernestine Whitman Tells All About Her IRDA Winning Book

Countermelodies is the story of a young woman’s struggle to overcome the painful betrayal by her beloved mentor.

Here’s What You Must Know About Finding Your Target Reader

The bottom line is that gaining exposure isn’t that hard, but doesn’t guarantee it will sell books. A book can get discovered countless times, but getting people to buy it becomes much more difficult.

First Place IRDA Winner Cynthia Reeves: “When I was very young…I used to hunt and peck these tales on my mother’s old manual Remington typewriter, imagining that I was a writer.”

Set against the haunting beauty and brutal extremes of the Arctic, The Last Whaler is a gripping tale of survival, love, and loss. The novel follows Tor Handeland, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid,...

Author Craig Speakes Tells All About his IRDA Winning Book!

Oli thought it was just a game. So did everyone else. But when thousands of kids fall into comas while playing Razer – Rise of the Cyborg, it’s clear something terrifying is happening.

IRDA Winners Lisa Peachey and Carol Elizabeth Long Tell All About Their Book

When Lisa’s beloved dog Miley passed, the world became a cold and dark place overnight - not just for her, but for her husband Dene and their dog Sprout. That all changed when animal communicator...