Jul 2, 2012

INDIEpendence Day

I'm a proud member of the INDELIBLES, a group of 25 Indie and small press authors who strive to create the best quality stories for our target market of readers. This week we'd like to celebrate all INDIE authors, by paying it forward. This isn't about us, but about YOU the Indie author and YOU the reader. What a great way to celebrate Indie authors!!



As my part of the celebration, I'm featuring Isabelle Santiago, who's writing goes above and beyond the rest. She's written and published several books and is such a sweet person, I just can't wait for you to get to know her better. Here's a little about her. 


Isabelle Santiago is a multi-published author who dabbles in 1950s romance, speculative science fiction, and more recently fantasy and YA. A twenty something dreamer who loves chocolate, romance novels, and heart wrenching movies, Isabelle is most comfortable on stage behind a microphone belting out her favorite karaoke tunes, or curled up in bed with a book and a cup of cocoa on a rainy night.
Isabelle co-runs the Free Read Fiction Journal, Tales From the Hollow Tree, with fellow YA fantasy enthusiast, Lisa Asanuma. Their first short story anthology, Tales From the Hollow Tree Volume 1: Stories of Enchantment and Desolation is available now.
Media Links:

And check out this book. Oh, man, what a hottie on that cover. :-)

The Guardian's Mark, Book 1 in the Guardian Circle Series

In Zerah, Guardians of Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Life and Death are chosen by The Beings to serve their people. Able to feel emotions The Beings cannot, the six keep their world, and each other, balanced.

Guardians live and die together, but when Kieran is born with marks that prove he is the Guardian of Death, his mother risks her life to conceal him instead of giving him up to the Temple. When an attempt to heal him of the burdens of the Guardianship goes horribly wrong, Kieran is suddenly brought to the attention of the High Priests and forced into servitude to a people who have shunned his very existence. 

He resents his position and all that it entails. It has cost him everything: his freedom, his family. Expected to live and study with the other Guardians, learn the right ways to use his power, Kieran is an outsider among his own kind until he finds the one person who can see the man beneath Death's mask.

Amaya, the embodiment of Water, breaks through his bitter shell and helps him to see that all of life is not bleak. But they've sworn a vow and love for one another isn't part of it. 

BUY LINKS:



B&N Nook

So, go check out her website HERE and be sure to pick up a copy of The Guardian's Mark today.


Here are the other participants. Please visit their blogs to find more wonderful Indie authors and learn more about them and their books.  Or go HERE to visit THE INDELIBLES blog for more information.  Thanks for hanging out with me today.

Sign up to participate in the blog hop that celebrates Indie authors!

1. Paranormal Book Beat  27. Hallee Bridgeman  53. Cherie Reich  
2. Jessie Harrell  28. Diane Strong  54. JM Madden  
3. Karen Amanda Hooper  29. Hayden Braeburn  55. Christine Fonseca, Author  
4. Susan Kaye Quinn  30. Remy @ Reading with A Broken Heart  56. Laura Diamond  
5. Laura Pauling  31. Katherine Lowry Logan  57. Nicole Singer  
6. Connie Keller  32. Jesse V Coffey  58. Indie Children's Authors Connection  
7. Sandra Ulbrich Almazan  33. Teresa Reasor  59. Heather Simone  
8. Cindy Hogan  34. Cate Dean  60. Cory Putman Oakes  
9. Lisa Nowak  35. Ashna @ Wanted Readers  61. Jenny Krueger  
10. Stacey Wallace Benefiel  36. Anna Kyss  62. Carolyn Brown  
11. Magan Vernon  37. R.M. Prioleau  63. C.K. Bryant  
12. Angela Brown  38. Deanna Roy  64. Gin @ Addicted to Words  
13. Heather McCorkle  39. Courtney Vail  65. Beth Dolgner  
14. Megg Jensen  40. Michael Whetzel  66. Medeia Sharif  
15. Christy @ Captivated Reading  41. Alli (mrscaptkirk51)  67. Bisi Leyton  
16. Patricia Lynne  42. Mackenzie Morgan  68. Michael Abayomi  
17. Kimber Shook  43. Paige Aspen  69. Erynn Newman  
18. Kai Strand  44. Suzan Tisdale  70. LM Preston  
19. ali cross  45. Dani @ Refracted Light  71. Rick Daley  
20. Stephanie Queen  46. Doug Solter  72. Jennifer S. Pitts  
21. Laura A. H. Elliott  47. Jamie Manning, Author  73. Elle Strauss  
22. DeAnna Knippling  48. Dalya Moon  74. H.S. St.Ours  
23. Meredith Bond  49. Ramblings of an Amateur Writer  75. Froze8's Blog  
24. Karen Victoria Smith  50. Pamela DuMond  76. Dariel Raye  
25. Amy Durham  51. Brooke  77. Kathleen Harsch  
26. Donna McDonald  52. Nickie Anderson  78. Shah Wharton's WordsinSync  

(Cannot add links: Registration/trial expired)

8 comments:

  1. Kela McClellandJuly 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Thanks, Christine. I've never heard of her before, but I'm checking her out now. :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Isabelle SantiagoJuly 2, 2012 at 3:08 PM

    Thank you so much for the feature, Christine! It's so exciting to see all the great things happening in publishing, with so many talented authors going Indie! I'm thrilled to be along for the ride. :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Susan Kaye QuinnJuly 2, 2012 at 5:07 PM

    Looks awesome! Adding to my TBR...

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownJuly 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM

    Thanks for the blog, it's great to hear about these wonderful people.

    Is this book part of series or a standalone?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Isabelle SantiagoJuly 8, 2012 at 5:56 PM

      Bisi, the book is the first in a three book series. Book 2 releases in October, book 3 in 2013! :)

      Delete
  5. kahJuly 4, 2012 at 10:40 AM

    Isabelle sounds like my long lost twin! Cocoa, heart-wrenching movies, YA fantasy, I like her already. :)

    Happy 4th!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Isabelle SantiagoJuly 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM

      Hey twin! ;) Always nice to meet a kindred spirit! Haha!

      Delete
  6. AnonymousJuly 4, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    Nice!!

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)