Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
Collection of humor, stories, games, puzzles and other things to give you a break from the routine of the everyday
Egyptian Royalty that is. A pharoah!
Found this fun site where you can make your name into a Pharaoh’s cartouche – Virtual Egypt. Just click here to visit and create your cartouche!
Here are some other sites as well where you can do the same:
Make Your Own Cartouche
Press Any Key Cartouche
Hope you all have a great Friday and weekend!
Think you know someone who deserves a special award? Today’s Fun Friday is a site that let’s you create all kinds of awards for your special friends and loved ones! Click here to visit Awardwinner.com and create an award for that someone who has done something really special.
Here’s one I created for myself:
Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving and hope you all have a great weekend.
Good morning on this Fun Friday! I hope you are all ready for an awesome weekend. Today’s post will hopefully bring a smile as boys will be boys!
The first video is from a soccer match between Tonga and New Zealand.
This second video is the imagined Scottish reply to such a challenge courtesy of William Lawson’s Scotch Whiskey!
By the way, I’m told that in Braveheart, this ritual of exposing yourself to an opponent was changed to a “moon” because Americans would understand that insult, but not the other. Interesting.
Thanks to fellow author Jacquie Rogers for discovering these gems!
A Happy Halloween and All Saints Eve to you! You may be surprised by that saintly image you see and wondering who it is.
Well, that’s La Caridad del Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba. The story of La Caridad is that the young men in the boat were out in the bay when a furious storm broke out. The young boys feared for their lives until an apparition of Mary came to them and said that she was “La Virgen de la Caridad” (the Virgin of Charity). When the storm passed, the young men found a statue of La Caridad in the waters and took her to land. La Caridad del Cobre’s Feast day is September 8th.
She is also my patron saint as I was named after her. Christmas hint to my family — I’ve wanted a statue of her for years!
My family had another saint they honored — Mother Cabrini. Every year we would make a pilgrammage to see her shrine located near the Cloisters in Manhattan. Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants.
You may be wondering about the saints talk and why today, on Halloween — All Hallows Eve and the Eve of All Saints Day. Well, the reason for it is that my friend and fellow author Carolyn Martin sent me a link to this clip by her brother, Father James Martin. It’s a great fun video discussing the connections between Halloween and All Saints Day (formerly All Souls Day in my time as well as the Day of the Dead in Mexico). Since he mentioned patron saints and Mother Cabrini, I figured I share it with you. Hang tight, it’s about 6 minutes long. Also, make sure to stay around for the outtake at the end.
These all come courtesy of the LA Times, which has an entire section devoted to funny street signs. You can click here to find more of them!
The English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982. The contest is a writing competition that challenges writers to create the worst possible opening sentence for a novel. For complete information on the contest, you can click here or visit this link: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
I kind of like the Boise Weekly News description of the contest, namely “the only literary contest that matters!” LOL! Well, contests certainly are a crap shot for sure and some more worthwhile than others.
This one is definitely a lot of fun. For this year’s winners, you can click here. So you don’t have to keep on wondering what won the prize, here’s the 2008 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest!
Kind of laughed that it mentioned Piscataway, NJ. That’s the next town over from me!
To check out past winners of the contest, click here.
Hope you have a great weekend! For all my friends in the Houston area, I’m praying for your safety and that storm does little damage.
Today’s FUN FRIDAY is all about my new covers! I am so excited about them. The cover on the left is for my December romantic suspense release, SOLDIER’S SECRET CHILD (I think the model is hot, do you?). The cover on the right is for the e-book collection of the novels in the CAPTURING THE CROWN series which includes my August 2006 release, MORE THAN A MISSION.
Also for fun, I decided to collect all the different versions of my covers since when the books are re-released overseas, they sometimes change the cover or change the line under which the book is released. For example, in the United Kingdom the romantic suspense stories used to come out in a line called SENSATIONS, but they are now releasing these books as part of the United Kingdom INTRIGUE line. In Japan, the cover says the book is part of the LOVESTREAM line.
I’m trying to track down the Australian covers and hope to have them up soon.
If you check out the DARKNESS CALLS United Kingdom cover, it’s really cool. Of course, my all time favorite is the MANGA cover of MORE THAN A MISSION. It was so-o-o amazing to see the story turned into a cartoon! You can read more about this one by clicking here.
Click here or visit this link (http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006451&l=1fc77&id=1130005412) to see my collection of covers!