Author Archives: IngridRicks

About IngridRicks

Ingrid Ricks is the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, a New York Times memoir bestseller that was recently acquired by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House. The book is scheduled for nationwide paperback release January 2014. She is also the author of Focus, a memoir about her journey with the blinding eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. She is currently working on a memoir about her yearlong quest to heal her eyesight, and is blogging about her journey at www.determinedtosee.com

• Five Marketing Musts for Authors

  Posted on July 6, 2010 by IngridRicks in Uncategorized

  If there’s one clear message to come out of my two months of research into the state of today’s publishing world and the best way to take my own newly finished memoir to market, it’s this: If you, as an author, actually want your book to succeed, you better embrace your inner-marketer self – because […]

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• Quotes on Creating and Living

  Posted on June 6, 2010 by IngridRicks in Quotes on Creating and Living

  “Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, and spoke with a voice that was all rage and envy. Do not dismiss a book until you have written one, and […]

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• Check out Chapter 1!

  Posted on April 26, 2010 by IngridRicks in Uncategorized

  Interested in a great coming-of-age memoir about a girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather by joining her free-wheeling dad on the road as a tool hustler? If so, check out the Hippie Boy page.  And if you want to get a small taste for the book, we’ve also posted the first chapter. Hope you […]

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• Hippie Boy coming soon!

  Posted on April 23, 2010 by IngridRicks in Uncategorized

  After years of on and off writing, I’ve just completed Hippie Boy, a coming-of-age memoir about a teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather by hustling tools on the road with her charismatic, free-wheeling dad. I plan to start shopping it around this summer. For more info, click on the Hippie Boy link above […]

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