Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
I’m sorry to say the laptop is back at it. Seems to be a video problem, but because of that and some writing deadlines, I’m going to take a short break until July 5th! I’ll be back on Monday with your Guilty Pleasure as well as some summer fun – a few contests for you to enjoy!
Have a great 4th of July weekend!
Last night I pulled out the laptop to work as I am in the middle of multiple deadlines.
Imagine my surprise when my three year old Dell refused to start up. Lights blinked, etc. but no image. I plugged in a monitor to see if it was the screen – no image. After hours of trying, nothing.
Did I freak? Well yes, because I really can’t afford to buy a new laptop right now.
Did I worry about the data or my more important programs? No.
If there is one thing that I am, it’s a stickler for doing backups and you should be as well in order not to lose valuable data when things go wrong.
How can you do backups? Here are some suggestions for you:
Those are all nice solutions for safeguarding your data, but what about your programs?
I hope you found this Tuesday Tip helpful. As for me, the Dell decided to boot this morning, so I am busy making a full backup of data and an image backup just to be on the safe side!
An apology to all those on Team Edward, but as much as all of you know that I love vampires, I’ve got to get on the side of Team Jacob this morning! How can I not with the likes of Taylor Lautner playing the werewolf in the Bella-Edward-Jacob triangle?
You can grab this brooding Jacob wallpaper from over at the official NEW MOON Movie site (but be prepared to wait for the never-ending flash gadgets!)
And if that’s not enough eye-candy for you this Guilty Pleasures Monday, well then you can click here for more shots displaying Taylor’s rather sculpted physique!
If you’re in the mood to talk about vampires this morning, don’t forget to drop by and visit my Dark Side Demon Monday over at Danger Women Writing.
On this Fun Friday, it seems to be another day for the Jersey Shore. This time it’s a hilarious spoof on the extremely popular Twilight with its glittery brooding teen vamps. Sit back and enjoy Fr***g’g Twilight from the Jimmy Kimmel Special the other night. You gotta love those glittering abs and the “He’s Italian?” comment and response!
If you can’t see the video below, you can also click on this link for the Fr***g’g Twilight spoof or cut and paste this link into your browser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIPE9fSWzw
Hope you all have a great weekend! I’ll be down the shore, filming some videos for you for my upcoming release STRONGER THAN SIN!
As a romance writer, even a paranormal romance writer, there is one thing that I cannot fail to do — deliver a Happily Ever After!
In books it’s easy to do if you set up the conflict correctly, know what issues need to be resolved and last, end the book while the couple are in the throes of that blissful true love moment.
In life, and in books, the Happily Ever After once that blissful moment is over is sometimes not so easy to maintain. It’s why I loved being able to revisit Diana and Ryder from DARKNESS CALLS in their second book – DEATH CALLS. It’s probably why I’ll write yet another story featuring them since readers understand that achieving that Happily Ever After can be difficult, but oh so joyous when it finally happens.
With the benefit of age and hopefully some wisdom, I look back at my marriage and realize that it hasn’t been easy staying married. There have been ups and down, most times caused by external pressures such as jobs, illnesses and deaths, but somehow through it all, we’ve not only persevered, we’ve stayed happy together.
Some might wonder how that’s possible. How do you slog through the rough times in life and still manage to keep alive the Happily Ever After?
I realized the other day that the answer was: Humor. Respect. Understanding.
Oh wait, that’s three answers, isn’t it! LOL!
But there it was, one way to Happily Ever After and not just in the books that I write, but in real life.
Find someone who can make you laugh and pick you up during the hard times. Someone who respects your opinions and your contributions to the relationship. Someone who understands your needs, both physical and mental. In reality, combine all those attributes and you will usually find Love and with Love comes the Happily Ever After.
How about you? For those of you who have been in long term relationships, what do you find keeps you going through good times and bad?
If you’re a published author and you want to learn about how to promote your book, I highly recommend that you sign up for the Author and Marketing Experts newsletter. The newsletter is chock full of tips and tricks for how to publicize your book. You can also check out their free online courses and podcasts at Publishing Insiders.
One of the tips in a recent newsletter was about social bookmarking and you can also click here to read an article on maximizing book reviews by using social bookmarking.
Of course by now some of you may be wondering, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”
Social bookmarking lets you share your favorite websites, pages, etc. with others. Sites such as Delicious, Digg and Stumbleupon are just some of the sites which store your bookmarks and share them with others.
If you’ve got the Google Toolbar, you can also post your content to Blogger, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Yahoo and a number of other services with just the click of a button.
What can you share? Articles or blogs that you’ve written, reviews for your books, videos, contests and basically anything that you have online and that you want to share.
These bookmarks are great tools for having people discover you and your work and will help drive people to your website.
You can also make it easy for others to share information you’ve created by using buttons such as these in your posts and on your website! You can get this simple social bookmark widget at Addthis.com.
I hope you enjoyed today’s Tuesday Tip.
Also, many thanks for all your help last Tuesday when I asked for suggestions for some upcoming contest. The lucky winner of the Valere! Please e-mail me your postal address so I can send your prize.
There are some cuties that are worth a second look, so today is David Wright Redux on this Guilty Pleasure Monday.
My daughter showed me this hilarious video with David and Mike the Situation from JERSEY SHORE (I so hate the portrayal of the Shore on that show!)
But, it is a funny take on how David steps up his off-season training with Mike the Situation!
I have only one question for the Vitamin Water people – Why can’t we see David with his shirt off?
If you can’t see the video below, you can click here to see the David Wright Vitamin Water spoof or cut and paste this link into your browser: