Wonder how I got my ideas for South Beach Love? Want the skinny on what happens on a film set? Then join me tonight at 8 pm EST at the Las Comadres National Book Club teleconference! You can register here to get the call-in information: https://latinolit.com/join-teleconference/.
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Can’t Wait for the release of Trapping a Terrorist
There’s been a lot of excitement lately about the upcoming South Beach Love movie and well, WOO HOO! It’s such a cool thing! But I also can’t wait until the September 28th release of Trapping a Terrorist from Harlequin Intrigue. This story revolves around an FBI BAU team in Seattle that is trying to catch a serial bomber before anyone gets killed. My hero is FBI Agent Miguel Peters who is the SSA for the team. Miguel lost his mother to a terrorist attack and is determined to stop that from happening to anyone else, especially his main witness, Maisy Oliver. But Maisy is not what she seems. As they are pulled together in a life and death struggle against the bomber, Miguel and Maisy must both fight their own demons in order to find happiness.
Since I was lucky enough to be able to visit Seattle and include some of what I knew from that visit into the book, I’m sharing some photos with you as today’s Throwback Thursday!
My Exciting Meeting with William Levy
We were able to visit the set for the South Beach Love filming for a very short time on Monday, but not on Tuesday. Despite that, we were able to watch them filming from the street and I’ll be sharing those photos soon! As we were walking back to our car, guess who we ran into? OMG, William Levy who is playing Tony in the movie! He is so handsome and so nice. He took the time to pose with me for this photo! So exciting.
Staying Positive on Rainy Days and in Difficult Times
There are lots of upbeat quotes about how to handle when bad times hit you but this one caught my attention for some reason: When life gives you rain, play in the puddles. Or maybe it was the picture of that adorable corgi! Regardless, no matter how bleak things look now, we will hopefully be able to get through these rough times. For now, I will pray for the people of Afghanistan and the Americans trapped there. I hope God will keep them safe and help resolve this horrible crisis.
My Saint of a Grandfather and the Cuban Diaspora
My grandfather was a saint. Patient, loving, kind, and hard-working. He was always supportive of my grandmother and mother, two very determined women. Plus, he would do anything he had to do help his family. In my February 2022 release The Family She Never Met there’s a scene where the heroine is speaking to her father about how to feed her family and keep a roof over their heads. During that scene you find out that her father had lied about his age in order to get a job to help the family.
That’s just one of my family’s true stories woven into the fictional tale in The Family She Never Met. My grandfather shaved a decade off his age so he could get a job and help out our family. My granddad was already retirement age when we came here, but he instead worked at one of the maintenance services at LaGuardia Airport. One of my childhood memories is of driving with my mom or dad to pick him up at work.
This picture is from an ID card for a medical clinic in Cuba.
South Beach Love Spy and News!
I’m over the moon about South Beach Love becoming a Hallmark Channel movie. It’s one of those things you dream about as a writer. What’s even more exciting is that I’ll be heading down to watch the filming and I hope I’ll have some fun things to share with you from that visit. In the meantime, the William Levy Paraguay Fan Club has set up the South Beach Love Spy Instagram page where they’re getting all kinds of behind-the-scenes photos, etc. You can visit with them at https://www.instagram.com/southbeachlovepy/.