Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
It’s time for another giveaway to celebrate the release of South Beach Love! To enter the giveaway, you can either visit my Facebook Fan Page to post your answer or post it here!
Can you discover how many differences there are between the two photos? Hint, we have some friends visiting, but that’s not all. Post the number of differences (not where they are) for a chance to win a $15 gift card. Contest ends at midnight EST Sunday, June 13th.
We did an awesome mother/daughter girls weekend! We visited Longwood Gardens and then the next day we went to the Philly Flower Show.
The weather was hot, but we still had a wonderful time seeing all the flowers and gardens at the two locations. On Saturday we had a lovely lunch at the Chadds Ford Tavern and dinner at Il Granaio! Highly recommend both places if you’re in the area.
Sunday was all action day after we drove to FDR Park for the Philly Flower Show. This was the first time it’s been held outdoors since it’s normally at the Convention Center. Very different and I’m torn as to whether I prefer the indoor setting.
It was definitely great to be outdoors, but there were fewer of the big garden displays that they used to have indoors.
Regardless, we had a wonderful time and would definitely go again.
Here are some photos from our trip!
It’s a tough thing to miss your goals, but there’s one thing that’s even harder: Not even trying in the first place.
That’s especially true about writing books. People wonder how you sit down and write a book, but that’s the first thing to do: Sit down and write.
The next thing to do is to set a goal and keep on writing until you meet it. The goal can be to write a page, or a short story, or a novella, or an entire book.
But the key to succeeding is to first set a goal and to work at it until you reach that goal. After that, set another goal and keep at it!
That’s the key to creating and maintaining a career as a published author: Not giving up.
One of the best deals I got was this 12.99 orchid at Wegman’s. I love having live flowers in the house and I’ve now had this orchid for at least a month. I was also able to snag a lovely orchid planter at Costco for about 19.99. I’ve now had that for 3 months and it still has some flowers on it!
You may think, “Oooh, orchids are so hard to grow!”
Well, just a good soaking once a week and some indirect light and you’re good to go. Even if you do kill it, you’ll have had flowers for at least a week or more and for less than your typical grocery store bouquet!
How about you? What was the best deal you scored recently?
On another note, it was sooo exciting to see South Beach Love on the Hallmark Channels Home & Family Show! If you missed it, you can watch it here https://www.facebook.com/HomeandFamilyShow/posts/3951650401581764 or down below!
I’m so excited to say that South Beach Love is being featured on today’s (Monday, June 7th) Home & Family program on Hallmark Channel! Yeah. Tune in or set your DVR to record the episode which airs at 10 am EST.
If you’ve visited with me on Facebook Fan Page, you know that we had a bookmark giveaway and the lucky winners are:
Visit my fan page to stay tuned for news, photos, videos, and more giveaways!
I’ve been busy making bookmarks and I’m going to pick 10 people to win one of them! Please visit my Facebook Fan Page for a chance to enter the giveaway.
Don’t forget that to celebrate the release of SOUTH BEACH LOVE, I’ve created this book of recipes and free reads from my various books. You can download this e-book for free from Kindle Unlimited or get your copy at https://claims.prolificworks.com/free/JT72rhhr.
To see more recipes, please visit my Cook’s Treat section.
When I was a child, we regularly visited Miami to see family and friends. Normally we’d go down during the summer months and boy was it hot and humid. We’d spend a lot of time in South Beach and Lummus Park. Back then it wasn’t a ritzy place to stay. In fact, at one point we stopped staying there since the area had gotten so rundown.
Flash forward twenty years and for a time we’d take my daughter there for spring break vacations. It was our way of exposing her to the Cuban culture we didn’t have where we were living and we always enjoyed going. We’d hang out on the beach, but also make time to visit Lincoln Road, Little Havana, or go to the Miami Seaquarium which was one of my favorite places from when I was a child.
My memories of those areas helped shape many of the scenes in South Beach Love.
This is a photo from one of my last trips to South Beach which was actually for a work conference. I was lucky enough to stay in the fabulous Loew’s Hotel, but we still made it a point to go to Lincoln Road and Little Havana. The conference even had an event at Monkey Jungle which was also a childhood favorite.
