Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Caridad Pineiro shares news, articles, teasers and more from the paranormal romances.
It’s Friday! Doing the happy dance that the weekend is here and hoping to get a lot done this weekend. How about you? Any fun plans?
On this #FridayRead day, I’ve got another excerpt from TO LOVE AND SERVE and I’m counting down the minutes until our very special event on November 25. I hope you’re going to be ready for some bubbly and cake on that day!
Have a great weekend and I hope you enjoy this little tidbit from TO LOVE AND SERVE.
If you can’t see the excerpt below, you can click here!
For those of you who have been waiting since book 1, DARKNESS CALLS, for Maggie and David’s story: HERE IT IS! Finally, yes, I know, but like Diana and Ryder’s story, I really felt that Maggie and David needed an intensely deep and powerful story line for their romance.
BORN TO LOVE is Maggie and David’s story, but it also continues the emotional story arc between Diana and Ryder. No spoilers on that one, but there will be a big event right here on November 25th and you’re all invited.
So here is the teaser for BORN TO LOVE:
Fated to survive…
Meant to love…
Destined to die…
OMG, I’m so excited about this one. You’re also going to meet some new shifter characters in this book whose stories you will see in future novels. Yes, I do plan quite a few more books in the series.
And for now . . . .Drum roll . . .
Still doing the happy dance over the return of THE CALLING vampire series as THE REBORN vampire series. Today we’re having a free read from FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE, the first book in the relaunched series, but the 12th in THE CALLING.
A lot of you have been wondering, “Why a Goddess and what role will she play in future books?”
Well, you know I like to change things up. That’s why the series has been a mix of paranormal and human suspense stories. It’s also why I did things like bring in a chupacabra and a chiang shi vampire.
After discussions with my editors, they thought something REALLY different might be interesting and after much thought, I turned to something I really love: mythology. That’s where the idea of having a Goddess was born.
Will you see Helene and Miguel in future books? You’ll hear about them in the next book, TO LOVE AND SERVE, which begins a three-story arc about Diana and Ryder. You will see Miguel and Helene in a future book as the god/goddess world brings trouble to the human realm. Possibly in book 5 of the REBORN series. I’m working on the idea for that book right now, but first you’ll be treated to a novella next year and then book 5!
For today I’m giving you a sexy excerpt from FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE. Warning, this is for Mature audiences only.
If you can’t see the excerpt below, you can click here to read it!
FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Finally, visit with me at these various spotlight blogs and follow the instructions to be entered into a giveaway to celebrate the September Ignite releases.
Monday Oct 14th Manga Maniac Cafe
Tuesday Oct 15th My Book Addiction and More
Thursday Oct 17th Reading Between the Wines
Friday Oct 18th For Whom The Books Toll
I wanted to honor our military and their families and the sacrifices they make. In part, that was what inspired Bobby Carrera from THE LOST. I wanted to try and show some of the struggles that our wounded vets go through when they come home. So today’s free read is from THE LOST and features Bobby as she deals with her wounds and what Adam is making her feel in so many ways.
Even after I wrote THE LOST, I felt like I could do more and because of that, I donated part of my royalties from THE CLAIMED to HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS, a non-profit group that helps wounded veterans and their families. I just got an e-mail from them about their participation in the Newman’s Own Foundation challenge. Here’s what HOPE FOR THE WARRIORS said:
So I’m helping them to meet their goal! Please take a moment to possibly offer up a donation to help by clicking here or using the widget below. Join the team or share this post to help this wonderful organization meet its goal.
If you can’t see the excert below, you can click here.
I want to thank you all for your support of THE CALLING/REBORN series and also, for TO CATCH A PRINCESS. As a special thanks, we’ve got THE PRINCE’S GAMBLE with a free copy of GHOST OF A CHANCE now available for .99 at various bookstores!
It’s Wicked Wednesday which means a free read! Today’s excerpt is from FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE and I hope you enjoy it.
If you can’t see the excerpt below, you can click here to read it.
FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE Vampire Romantic Suspense – THE CALLING/REBORN series by Caridad Pineiro
FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE from THE CALLING/REBORN Vampire Series comes on out September 23. It’s hard to believe that nearly 10 years have elapsed since the first book in the series, DARKNESS CALLS, came out in 2004 and that the series now has 11 books in it, 12 if you count FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE (which also happens to be my 40th release!).
Wow! As you know I’ve been re-releasing the contemporary novels that I first did before starting THE CALLING/REBORN Vampire Series. A lot of people asked me back in 2004 how I made such a leap from sweet, sexy and humorous contemporary romances to something as dark and gritty as THE CALLING/REBORN series.
So here goes with that explanation. . .
One of the main characters in the books, FBI Agent Diana Reyes, actually popped into my head while I was writing one of the contemporary romances. She was screaming so hard to be heard that even though I was on deadline to write the contemporary, I set it aside to write a chapter or two with her in it. She finally quieted down when I did that, but not for long.
Especially when in 2001 I fell into an emotional abyss caused by so many things.
For starters, without warning our publisher put the line for which I was writing into “hiatus.” A euphemism for dead in the water. The last two books for that line were never released, but I will be bringing them out as indie releases soon!
Suddenly I was without a publisher and wondering what to do. I had an agent back then who wanted me to be a Latina Terry McMillan. That was so not me, but I tried and tried and just got more and more frustrated.
Diana Reyes started screaming in my head again, but then 9-11 happened.
September has always been a pivotal month for me. My mom’s b’day is on September 10, but she has now been gone from life more than she was in it. But she is still with me every day, especially on that day.
On top of that, I loved school and loved college even more. I lived for September and the return to Villanova. Those bright and beautiful fall days filled with such promise for the future. So much so that when we had such a lovely September day, my hubby and I would say we were having a Villanova Day.
That all changed on a Villanova Day in September. A bright and beautiful day that would forever change me. I’ll admit that. I am not the person I was before. There is an abyss of anger and pain inside of me that will NEVER go away because on that day my Nation, my America, was attacked and so was the city of my heart, New York.
For weeks after 9-11, I could not write much less think about anything. I had to keep a brave face on for my daughter and tell her everything would be fine while inside I was thinking, Will it?
My writing was nowhere. My city was in ruins. The faces of the dead stared at me every day from the street corners. I cried more than I laughed while trying to make believe everything could be normal again.
Diana Reyes started screaming in my head again.
In some ways, I am more like Diana than any of my other characters. I understand her abyss because I’ve been there. Because it lives inside of me.
I also understand her need for justice and her belief that someone needs to stand up for the dead.
She has my bad traits also, but I’ll keep those to myself for now. You may be able to guess what they are from the books. LOL!
From the darkness of post 9-11 New York City and the emotional upheavals of that day, I finally could not ignore Diana any more and I sat down to write during a Christmas holiday break. Once I started writing, I couldn’t stop. In fact, I finished that first draft of DARKNESS CALLS in just a couple of weeks, the pull of the story and of Diana and Ryder was that strong.
I had to finish it for me and to revive the hope that things would be okay. That there were still people who stood for good and that good will always win out over evil.
In each of the stories of THE CALLING/REBORN series, there is that satisfaction for me. The good guys may bleed and suffer, but they always will find a way to win the day. They always will find that the strength of love can overcome the worst face of evil, whether human or otherworldly.
So that’s what inspired THE CALLING/REBORN Vampire Series and that’s why I keep on writing it.
Hopefully that’s why you keep on enjoying it! Thank you all for indulging me today with this.
I’ll be doing a cover reveal on September 23 for the first new book in THE CALLING becomes THE REBORN Vampire Novel series. FOR LOVE OR VENGEANCE will be out on September 23. If you wish to participate, please go to this link: http://bit.ly/17k8ZQs
You will receive the cover, links to excerpt, and some buy links which you can post on your website, blog, Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr or anywhere else on the Net.
From all the participants in the cover reveal, I will pick one person to win a $50 gift card. Thank you.
