Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
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I’m honored to be at the USA Today Happily-Ever-After blog today discussing The Calling\Reborn Vampire Novel series and my latest release in it, VAMPIRE REBORN, as well as having some friends and fellow authors share why they love romance series.
Come and share your thoughts at the USA Today Happily-Ever-After blog as well! Thanks!
The hero in my upcoming contribution to the Dangerous Dozen Romantic Boxed Set is sexy undercover detective Carlos Ramirez. Carlos first appeared in TORI GOT LUCKY, the third book in the South Beach Sizzles Series.
I knew when I wrote that book that there would be more to the story between Carlos and reporter Sylvia Amenabar. I’m glad that they’re getting their story in TO CATCH HER MAN, which will be re-released shortly and also be part of the Dangerous Dozen Romantic Boxed Set.
I’ve been searching and searching around for someone who could play Carlos on the big screen. It was a tough job, but I finally found someone for you and for today’s #ManCandyMonday!
Check out telenovela star Julian Gil! Julian is an Argentine-born Puerto Rican model and actor. Julian has starred in a number of telenovelas as well as several movies, modeling gigs and films.
I think he’d play a great undercover detective? What do you think?
Many thanks to @TVyNovelasPR for this tweet of Julian!
El actor Julián Gil pronto publicará un libro sobre trucos básicos de cómo las mujeres pueden dominar a los hombres. pic.twitter.com/RevT8RTEKh
— Revista TV y Novelas (@TVyNovelasPR) November 22, 2013
It’s Friday! Whoop whoop! Doing the happy dance and looking forward to some spring weather this weekend. I’ll be taking a stroll with a friend along the boardwalk, but also getting to work on some new things, namely, an erotic novella for an anthology with some friends and FIGHT FOR LOVE, the next book in The Calling\Reborn series.
But first . . . I just released VAMPIRE REBORN, a novella in the series.
**WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD for DIE FOR LOVE**
In this story, Diana and Ryder are acclimating to the many changes in their lives. Ryder in particular is having a tough time dealing with the beat down that he suffered at the hands of psycho vampire Connall Burke, Michaela’s father.
But he’s also dealing with something else. Something almost unbelievable, namely that he might be turning human again. WHAT?! Yes, you read that right.
VAMPIRE REBORN explores the issues that Diana and Ryder are dealing with, but also expands on the slayer mythology and the origins of slayer, vampire and human life forces. It also sets up FIGHT FOR LOVE where Diana and Ryder, along with Ben and his new love interest, will have to face some very startling truths about themselves and about the foundations of all that they believe. FIGHT FOR LOVE will be out in early summer, but VAMPIRE REBORN is available now and is specially priced at .99 for a limited time.
If you can’t see the excerpt below, you can click here to read the Vampire Reborn Novella excerpt. Please click here to purchase the Vampire Reborn Novella!
It’s another Throwback Thursday and today I’m taking you back to some fun memories in Miami! We went there for a number of years with our daughter and stayed in South Beach. Those trips inspired a number of books set there, including my contribution to the Dangerous Dozen Romantic Suspense Boxed Set, TO CATCH HER MAN.
I loved walking around and snapping pictures of all the different places that I would one day incorporate into my books. One of the places we visited and which is mentioned in TO CATCH HER MAN, is the Miami Seaquarium. I remember visiting as a child and going home with a giant stuffed Flipper plush doll.
During one of our trips my daughter and I hammed it up as a diver and his mermaid catch!
Speaking of my daughter, her debut novel, FOLLOWING JANE, is getting really nice reviews and is now specially priced for .99 cents. I hope you’ll take a moment to check it out.
Last year was a crazy and brutal year publishing-wise. Although I had rights back to a number of books, including some of my favorites, I was unable to really focus on releasing them and going indie.
Not so this year. My goal this year was to embrace indie publishing and to do that I had to get organized. Big sigh. Anyone who has visited my home office knows organized is not a word to be used to describe my writing life. A big part of the reason is the lack of time that I have for it.
But lack of time doesn’t mean that you can’t get it done. It just means that you have to learn how to do it more efficiently. Going indie also meant that I had to establish my own schedules for what I wanted to do and when.
Thanks to my awesome buddy and awesome fellow writer Nisha Sharma, I’ve gotten organized. Or at least my knapsack and planner have.
Here’s what they look like now, including an awesome DREAM BIG bracelet thingie I got at the fabulous OG Surf and Skate shop in Neptune, NJ.
This has been really working for me because (1) I’m very visual and need to see things and (2) I’m still a needy kid inside who has to have little gold stars to tell her she’s doing okay.
LOL! So as you can see, there have been a number of stars on there as I complete the tasks I’ve scheduled. I keep the tasks on color-coded flags so I can move them around if need be.
Of course, there is just one thing I forgot to put on there and which totally belongs: Our Lucky 7 Bad Boys NY Times and USA Today achievement.
I will have to go and add that now and plan for even more good news like that. It’s going to be a lot of work this year, but like my mother always told me, “Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.”
In TORI GOT LUCKY, you got to meet a number of twentysomething friends who were all searching for different things in their lives.
As you might gather from the title, Tori was lucky enough to find exactly what she needed her the man in her life, her family and her friends, Adriana, Juliana and Sylvia.
Tori’s friends, however, still had to follow their destinies and achieve the kind of happily-ever-after that Tori was lucky enough to get.
TO CATCH HER MAN is Sylvia’s story and I was so excited to be able to write it. TO CATCH HER MAN is darker and more dangerous than TORI GOT LUCKY. I guess that’s why we’re including it in the Dangerous Dozen Romantic Suspense Boxed set.
In this story, Sylvia is trying to deal with her attraction to undercover detective Carlos Ramirez. Worse yet, someone is accusing Carlos of being dirty and Sylvia is assigned the story and must uncover the truth about the accusation. Her investigation will risk her growing relationship with Carlos, but also the reputation of a hero cop who was killed while on an assignment. I hope you’ll like this emotionally charged and suspenseful story, but also a sexy and at times lighthearted story.
TO CATCH HER MAN will be available as a standalone release in late March. For now, you can get it as part of the Dangerous Dozen Romantic Suspense Boxed set.
Chapter 1
Sylvia Amenabar’s life was anything but ordinary thanks to her crazy three best friends, a mother who was a witch, and an undercover detective with whom she had yet to get under the covers.
But Sylvia loved her less than fairy tale life and wouldn’t change anything about it except possibly the part about not being beneath the covers with Carlos, the Bad Boy detective who had turned out to be a Prince. Come to think of it, on top of the covers or on the floor or even on the kitchen counter would do.
In reality, anywhere would do since all Sylvia could think about was having wild monkey sex with Carlos once he got out of the hospital. Of course, Carlos might interpret the having sex part as meaning more than just having sex, which complicated things.
Sylvia wasn’t sure that she was ready for anything more involved. Her friends, who were all now happily in the throes of committed relationships, would say she had intimacy issues and they would be totally right.
She didn’t trust men. As far as she was concerned, men were dogs. She would allow, however, for a few rare exceptions. The problem was that she didn’t know enough about Carlos to be able to decide if he was one of those exceptions. That was the reason why she wasn’t ready for anything hinting at a Happily-Ever-After kind of ending with him. But she was ready for sex with him. More than ready for it.
As her mother had warned her months earlier, Sylvia had met a man who had started an itch. Maybe sex with Carlos would satisfy that itch, although her mama, witch that she was for putting such a curse on her, would argue that with some men not even sex was enough.
Not that her mama was any kind of expert on that, Sylvia thought as she walked to Carlos’s hospital room in Miami’s Jackson Memorial.
Thirty years earlier, her mama had picked the absolutely wrong man. One who had impregnated her and then skipped out on most of his fatherly duties. She should be grateful that her father had at least provided for her financially, but that hadn’t made up for the missing dad on birthdays, holidays, and on those days when life wore you down and you needed someone to hold onto.
Her mama had always been that someone and of course, her friends. They had been there for her nearly a month earlier when Carlos had been shot protecting her.
Which added guilt with a capital G to the list of reasons why she wasn’t necessarily ready for anything more serious with Carlos. Her first investigative report on drug dealing in the South Beach hotspots had nearly gotten Carlos killed when he had used his body as a shield when the drug dealers had opened fire. They had been angry that her article in the glossy monthly magazine had created increased scrutiny on them and a drop in business.
Carlos, she thought, pausing at his door and taking a deep breath. Prince or a Bad Boy Frog? she asked herself yet again, but told herself she didn’t have to make that decision right at that moment.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and I hope you all have a happy one. My Celtic ancestors are screaming for me to honor the day by sharing someone who has Irish roots! (Although I’m a Gallego, not from Ireland).
Who better than sexy Chris Evans! Before Chris was Captain America, he caught my eye in Cellular with Kim Basinger. An awesome film if you haven’t seen it yet. Chris has also appeared in a number of other movies, including the Fantastic Four as the Torch and a number of indie films.
Thanks to the Captain America Fan Page for this shot of Chris from the first Captain America movie.