Announcing the collaborators for the 1.5K Fiction Books Sweepstake

What can possibly be better than free books? The gift of highly-praised and independent Fiction.

Why am I gifting you books?

About a year ago, I started a journey into serious authorship. I decided of publishing my debut novel as an independent author, and with that decision, I realized I would have to manage every aspect of the publishing journey by myself.

Since then, I set out to learn all I could about the publishing process. It has been a dizzying experience, but I was lucky to find a supportive community of authors and readers on Instagram. I started this indie publishing journey with less than 400 followers. A year later and just as I’m about to publish my debut novel, my IG has grown to have a little over 1.5K followers.

This called for a celebration.

To celebrate authorship milestones, most authors gift their own books. Since I don’t have a book of my own yet, I collaborated with other independent authors. I reached out to four amazing indie authors whose careers and works I admire. These women have served as an inspiration for me and I can only hope that my career as an author would be half as successful as theirs.

How will it work?

In collaboration with these four marvelous authors, I’ll be running a raffle for book sets and signed copies during the month of August. The contest will run from August 7th to August 30th. Four lucky winners will receive a set of books, selected at random, by one of these authors. ⁠Winners will be announced at the end of the month and the prizes will be mailed to them at the beginning of September.

Since this is a “Thank you for your support giveaway” participants need not do anything but sign up for the contest to take part in this giveaway.

Every Friday I’ll be featuring one of my collaborators and tell you a little more about their work. In the meantime, here’s a little preview of the collaborators that have made this possible.

Collaborators

R.H. Webster

RH Webster grew up in rural Alabama, reading everything she could get her hands on. She now lives in sunny El Paso, Texas, with her other half and two adorable terrier mix rescue puppies, named Charlie and Rosie.

Her first novel, Lucky, was self-published in 2018 and has enjoyed high and enthusiastic feedback since then. The sequel, Striking It Rich, was released in February 2020. Both are available wherever your favorite books are sold.

Krystal N. Craiker

Krystal N. Craiker is the Writing Pirate, an indie author and freelance writer who sails the seven internet seas, breaking tropes and bending genres. She has a background in anthropology and education, which bring fresh perspectives to new adult genre fiction. When she’s not daydreaming about her next book or article, you can find her cooking gourmet gluten-free cuisine, laughing at memes, and playing board games. Krystal lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband Michael and two dogs, Darwin and Franklin.

Her Scholars of Elandria series has received high praise as the perfect balance between romance and fantasy with characters that feel alive on the page.

Alex Temblador

Alex Temblador received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2014 and went on to become the award-winning published author of Secrets of the Casa Rosada in 2018. Her second book was acquired by Blackstone Publishing in 2020. Called Half Outlaw, it falls under the adult fiction and magical realism genres.

With the success of her debut novel, Alex has participated in conferences like Texas Library Association, Teen Book Con, and Texas Teen Book Festival and presented at multiple high schools and universities in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Julia DeBarrioz

Long ago, a fortune teller read Julia DeBarrioz’s palm and told her, "You better write this all down." Julia has been writing, writing, writing ever since. She is the author of the Urban Fantasy Dakota del Toro series.

She lives on a farm in Missouri with her darling husband and an ever-growing assortment of feathered and furred babies. Somewhere along the line she earned a degree in fine art and traveled the world extensively. For all her rambles, Santa Fe, NM still retains the crown as her favorite dot on the map.