Here in Houston and busy running around. I’ve met a lot of fans, some of my editors and some old friends from all around the country. Plane ride out was bumpy on account of the tornadoes and a storm front, but today was beautiful.

I promised you some pictures and here they are!
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I’m having fun for the month of May by visiting with friends all over the Net in addition to the trip to Houston for the RT Convention!

Check out the interview I just did at Night Owl Romance.

Don’t forget to check out Marta Acosta’s blogs and also, Midnight Moon Cafe oln April 26th (they’ll have some fun prizes for you!)

Tomorrow morning I’ll be off to RT! I promise I will try to send photos of the cover models and hopefully pictures of our wonderful dinner at the Spindletop.

Here’s the scoop for where I will be for sure during the RT convention:

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

I decided to try my hand at an action-packed romantic suspense and started thinking about what the hero would be like. He’s going to be thirtyish, an Army CID officer and really sexy. For some reason, cowboy types came to mind. Maybe it’s that I’m headed to Houston for the RT Convention.

Immediately after that, the inspiration for the hero and this Monday’s Guilty Pleasure burst into my mind! Here’s a clue to the right.

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My friend Marta Acosta has an awesome blog called THE BITING EDGE together with Mario Acevedo and Jeanne Stein. All three are fiction writers who’ve written vampire novels — just the kind of thing I love!

Marta was kind enough to interview me for THE BITING EDGE, so please drop by, check out the interview and the great blog!

Fashion is the last thing I think about when I sit down to write. If you’ve seen SECRET WINDOW with Johnny Depp, you know what I am like when I write at home. I roll out of bed, grab my favorite sweater and slip it on. I go make a huge put of coffee, prepare a large cup of it, turn on the television and pick a movie/show and then plop on the couch to write.
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Counting down the minutes until it’s time to hit the road for not only the RT Convention, but a legal convention right afterward. So, my mind is filled with thoughts about becoming a Reluctant Road Warrior and I decided to offer some helpful and humorous advice. Read the rest of this entry �

With the release of BLOOD CALLS nearly here, I’ll be visiting a number of blogs to talk about the new novel in THE CALLING series as well as writing in general.

The first interview is up at The Dark Phantom . Please drop by!

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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First of all, my prayers and sympathy for everyone who has suffered pain or loss at Virginia Tech.

As parents, we send our children to school with the belief that they will be safe there, but time and time again incidents such as these remind us that those expectations may not be accurate.
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The only beef today is what the lucky winners of the Dinner at RT contest will be eating on April 25th in Houston!

I want to thank all of you who entered the contest, and if you didn’t win, please send me an e-mail with your postal address so that I can send a little something to you after the conference!

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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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I’ve been asked this question a lot lately and thought I’d share this tip with you. It’s actually really easy to create a rotating banner or a rotating series of book covers/images.

Best of all, it’s free! Why do you need to do this as a writer? Publicity and Promotion. It’s not enough to write a good book anymore. You need to know how to promote. For those of you who may be attending the NJRW Conference in October, Lisa Renee Jones and I will be doing a workshop titled Promo or Perish during which we will discuss the many avenues of promotion that writers should consider.
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First of all, I hope you all enjoyed your virtual vacation with me! If you dropped me a comment and I didn’t answer, please forgive me but I was surfing on borrowed bandwidth and it was sometimes hard to keep track of all the e-mails and comments.

It’s back to work after vacation Monday, which means I need a double dose of Guilty Pleasure.

This Monday, I’m going for someone totally exotic — Daniel Dae Kim! You may recognize him from LOST. Read the rest of this entry �

First of all, a very Happy Easter to everyone. I hope you will have a wonderful day and maybe enjoy some of that Pizza Rustica I had mentioned earlier. It’s freezing cold in New Jersey, so we’ll have to bundle up to have that Easter Egg hunt.

Yes, we’re back at home, but later on in this post there’s a last little bit on our wonderful trip to Rome.

Being here has so filled my head with a flavor for ancient Rome! I’ve been able to finish the first draft of FATE CALLS, the Christmas vampire book thanks to the trip, but here’s a question for you -

What do you think is a sexier name: Hadrian or Adriano?

Let me know and you may find yourself in the dedication to this next novella.
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I don’t think you need to know Italian to know what that word means. Way tired, but enjoying all the different sights.

Today we did some shopping. Nothing fancy, mostly walking around and checking out all the stores near the Spanish Steps. Got a few hairy eyeballs from the salespeople at DIOR and those ultra-expensive shops. By contrast, the people at D&G were quite friendly and we bought a little something.

Weirdest thing we did today — visit the Crypt of the Capuchin Monks where they decorated the altars, etc. with human bones. Macabre to the max! For more on this, you can click here to check out their official site (Make sure to use the link to THE CRYPT).

Here’s some more pictures for you!
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The word today was STEPS as in up and down lots of them and “Watch out for that step!” We started off by going to the Catacombs of San Callisto and checking out where over 500,000 Romans were buried.
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The word for today was LINES! Long long lines. We spent nearly 4 hours in lines! The first line was to get into St. Peter’s itself. Just over an hour, but we got to see so many things. Here’s some of them:
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Buon Giorno from Roma on a beautiful Palm Sunday! We’re here enjoying the sights and doing a little research for SECRET AGENT REUNION and my December holiday vamp story.

Rome is amazing! We’ve been walking all day and getting the lay of the land. Our hotel is within about 2 miles of most of Rome’s wonders.

We started today by going to Palm Sunday Mass after we checked in. We were able to see the Pope. From there we hit a local flea market, an assortment of churches (there’s one on every corner and even the local churches are wonderful), piazzas, the Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, the Forum and Colliseum. We didn’t go into the bigger monuments as we plan on doing those on different days, as well as the Vatican grounds.

Here’s some pictures from our first day!