Josy Stoque is a publicist by profession and author by vocation. She has been writing since discovering poetry as a child. Her debut novel, Marked by Fire, the first book in the Four Elements saga, was nominated for the 2013 Codex de Ouro Annual Literary Prize when published in Brazil in the original Portuguese. The second title in the series has also been published in Portuguese, and the author will release the remaining two books through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform in 2014. Marked by Fire is her English-language debut.