Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
General News and Information from Caridad
I’m so excited to say that Lost in Little Havana is now an audiobook! I know many of you love “reading” books this way as you travel, walk, or exercise. I hope you’ll take a moment to check out the audiobook and let me know if you like the story and the narrator! You can learn more at https://amzn.to/3HqfhoG.
I was lucky enough to help launch Harlequin’s Nocturne Paranormal line with Death Calls, the fourth book in The Calling is Reborn Vampire Novel series. Nocturne also did a spinoff to a novella series called Cravings which featured very sexy paranormal stories. I wrote several novellas for Cravings including Nocturnal Whispers, a story about a man cursed to live forever until he rights the wrong he committed by stealing a child’s mummy from its grave. Along the way the man, Lord Alec Wright, runs into a beautiful museum curator who stands in the way of his ending the curse. Did I mention that the curse involves almost unbearable desire? If you like darker, sexier reads, please check out Nocturnal Whispers. It’s available for free on Kindle Unlimited at https://amzn.to/3ju0X6p.
It’s Sunday. I love Sundays because I get to do brunch with my writing buddy and talk about books and how the writing is going! Then I get to just relax, something that I rarely get to do during the week. I hope your Sunday is exactly what you want it to be! Whether relaxing, exciting, plain, or fancy, have a great Sunday!
I have a tendency to collect things and every now and then I know it’s time to go through my stuff and wean out things that should either be thrown out or which can be donated to others who need them more than me. Even though it’s not Spring, something made me get going on it! So I went through my T-shirt drawers (yes more than one), sweater drawer, shoe rack, table linens, etc. to do that Spring cleaning. I was very happy with the results since my drawers are nice and organized and I was able to donate quite a number of useful items to Goodwill. I also know that whatever they don’t keep to resell will be recycled rather than just ending up in a dump somewhere. In The Family She Never Met, there’s mention of a very special table that the heroine’s grandmother bought at a St. Vincent de Paul location. That story comes from my family’s real history and that table now resides in my daughter’s house. I hope in time she’ll pass it to her children along with the story of how it was acquired. For more information on The Family She Never Met, please visit https://amzn.to/3tPQ7Xx.
My niece has been doing some family research and ran across this photo of me from our high school yearbook, I believe. I was President of the Leaders Club my senior and this is a photo of the officers. Leaders Club members were female athletes who would assist the Physical Education staff with various tasks around the gym. I’m dating myself, but this was only a few years after the passage of Title IX, and female athletes had to scrabble for recognition and acceptance. For a long time we weren’t part of the annual award event for athletes and to this day I remember how one of the male Phys Ed staff members asked me if I thought I deserved it when I was awarded the Pantherette Award for the best female athlete. I had no doubt I deserved it, and not just because Title IX said they had to do something like this since there was a Panther award. I’m so happy to see how things have changed for female athletes and hope we continue to make progress.
Waking up to a list of things I’ve got to get done and I’m working up the motivation to tackle them all as I sip on my morning coffee. For starters, I have to get to work on #3 in the South Beach Security K-9 Division spinoff. I actually have some news on that! My editor advises the tentative publication date for the series is Summer 2024 and you’ll be able to read all four books back-to-back. On another note, I’m the Conference Chair for the Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference and I’m working with the board and a fabulous group of members to finalize everything for the conference. It’s going to be a good one and if you’re an aspiring author, we have great workshops to help you with craft, business, and promotion. If you’re a reader, pop by the book fair on Saturday, April 1, 2023, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Admission is free and you’ll be able to meet quite a number of fabulous authors, including me! LOL! For more information, please visit www.lsfwriters.com. For more information on the South Beach Security series, please visit https://amzn.to/3GYWSAo.
I just delivered Escape the Everglades last week and am now working on the proposal for #3 in the South Beach Security K-9 Division spinoff, tentatively titled Killer in the Kennel. I had an initial idea for the book when I sold the series, but after some brainstorming with a good friend, I’m tweaking the plot a little. Because of that, I’m busy doing some research and later today I’ll start doing a very loose chapter outline for at least the first ten chapters of the book. I have to confess that I only do that many because a lot of times the story is writing itself by then. Interesting fact: I do that loose chapter outlining by hand in pencil in a journal. Don’t know why but there is something about the pencil on paper that helps me focus. I am hoping the SBS K-9 Division spinoff will be available in late 2023. For now, you can check out the first three books in the series at https://amzn.to/36KrDcR.
