RT Convention – Come meet me!

excited.gifHere’s the scoop for where I will be for sure during the RT convention:

  • Thursday, April 26th, 3:00: Meet Caridad at Club RT
  • Thursday, April 26th, 5:00: Meet Caridad at her multi-cultural workshop with Tracy Montoya
  • Friday, April 27th, 3:30: Meet Caridad at Club RT
  • Saturday, April 29th, 11:00 am to 2 pm: Meet Caridad at the RT Bookfair which is open to the public.
  • Please come by! I’m so excited about the prospect of meeting all of you who are attending. Also, if you’d like to get together for coffee, lunch, etc., please let me know so we can try to plan something in advance.

    Also, take a moment to drop by some of the blogs where I’ll be visiting to celebrate the release of BLOOD CALLS in a few days (actually, it’s hit the shelves already at a number of bookstores!)

    Here’s where you can blog with me:

    Marta Acosta’s Myspace: www.myspace\martaacosta
    The Biting Edge (also courtesy of Marta):
    http://biting-edge.blogspot.com/2007/04/biting-edge-welcomes-caridad-pineiro.html

    April 26th: Join me at the Midnight Moon Cafe (where we’ll have some special prizes for you!)
    http://midnightmooncafe.blogspot.com/index.html

    Wicked Wednesday – Wounded Heroes and BLOOD CALLS

    There’s something wickedly interesting about wounded heroes. You know they’ve either been bad or have had something bad happen to them which makes them all that much more intriguing. Will they stay good or become bad again? Can they be trusted? So many more questions and things that you can do with them.

    BLOOD CALLS is definitely all about wounded heroes. Diego Rivera was a Spanish Lord before his wife betrayed him to the Spanish Inquisition because he had been selfish and unfaithful. Ramono Escobar has had a hard life, including a stint in juvenile detention when she got mixed up with the wrong crowd after the death of her father and her mother’s illness.
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    Fix-up Friday!

    No, you are not going crazy. There were posts the last two days only the server migration that I thought was over wasn’t and they’ve disappeared into the ether of cyberspace.

    These things happen, so I’m going to try and recreate the posts today and tomorrow.

    Wicked Wednesday was all about DESIRE CALLS, the free novella that’s up at eharlequin.com right now (you can click here to start the read!)
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    The Girls Got Bite (and humor to go with it!)

    Today’s Tuesday Tip comes from Marta Acosta. I’ve been exchanging e-mails with Marta who is the author of Happy Hour at Casa Dracula. Happy Hour at Casa Dracula was a Book Sense Pick and Catalina Magazine’s Best Humor Book of 2006.

    In April, Marta is releasing Midnight Brunch which continues the wildly comic adventures of Milagro de los Santos, Fancy University graduate who lives with a family of urbane vampires.

    Marta was kind enough to offer some tips on writing humor, so here goes!
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