Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Caridad Pineiro shares her thoughts on the writing life as well as tips for writers.
I’ve just finished packing up lots of free books and goodies for newsletter members. I love hearing from them and I hope they love hearing from me about what’s happening and my new releases. If you haven’t signed up for my newsletter, it’s not too late to get in on member news and specials! You can sign up at https://www.caridad.com/newsletter/.
I know I’m like many of you who have a number of books on my TBR pile but I hope you’ll add my new romantic suspense Lost in Little Havana to your pile! You can check out Lost in Little Havana at https://amzn.to/3FT144d! Also, don’t forget my giveaway for a chance to win a $15 gift card and set of custom book cover pins. You can enter on my Facebook Fan Page at http://bit.ly/3WKxx2O or leave a comment on any of this week’s posts!
The Mexican holiday of Dias de los Muertos is a mix of Mesoamerican, European, and Spanish cultures and religions. According to History.com, the tradition is that “the gates of heaven are opened at midnight on October 31 and the spirits of children can rejoin their families for 24 hours. The spirits of adults can do the same on November 2.” On the Day of the Dead, families will visit the graves of their deceased family members to leave gifts or set up altars in their homes where they can make offerings to help their deceased relatives reach their final resting places.
Our fears and interest in death are understandable. It’s the one thing we can’t control and really don’t know all that much about. Is it any surprise that in multiple cultures we see the existence of the undead or immortal beings who have somehow cheated death? It was one of the fun things for me to investigate when I wrote The Calling is Reborn vampire novel series. There were just so many types of vampires in other cultures. In the Americas, we have the chupacabra and I had a blast incorporating my version of a chupacabra in Devotion Calls. In that story, a police detective has to help protect a women’s shelter from a mysterious attacker. What he doesn’t know is that she’s a vampire and the attacker is a sewer-dwelling creature that I modelled after a chupacabra. You can find out more about Devotion Calls at http://bit.ly/DevotionCalls.
Join me and dozens of your favorite authors at the 2022 Halloween Mash at Writerspace on Thursday, October 27th from 11a-8p ET on the Writerspace Facebook page for your chance to win one of 2 Kindle Fires, signed books, gift cards, and more. We will be dropping in to chat on Facebook all day (on the posts we put up and on Facebook live at 3p and 6p ET) at the Writerspace Facebook page. Please take a moment to check out all the prizes that are available and to register for the event at https://www.writerspace.com/big-event/big-event-registration/! You must be registered to win. I’ll be giving away a $25 Gift Card and copy of Decoy Training to one lucky winner!
Congrats to all my fellow K-9s on Patrol authors! I was so excited to be able to join Elizabeth Heiter, Maggie Wells, Cindi Myers, Leslie Marshman, and Lena Diaz in this ensemble series from Harlequin Intrigue. Each of the stories is standalone but you’ll get to see all of the characters in each of the K-9 tales. My book Decoy Training was the first book in the ensemble and the last book — Police Dog Procedural by Lena Diaz — will be out on October 25. You can pre-order your copy of Lena’s book now! I hope you will take a moment to check out this amazing collection of standalone books each has an uplifting ending. I loved giving even my dogs Chipper and Decoy a happily ever after. You can find out more about the K-9s on Patrol at https://amzn.to/3gj1kyO.
I’ve just turned in the first book in the South Beach Security K-9 series, tentatively titled Rescue at Redland Ranch. Now I’m finishing up some research so I can start writing the second book in the series, tentatively titled Escape the Everglades. I love doing the research, especially since the Everglades is such a fascinating location. Many years ago we did an airboat tour and I’m excited to include some of that experience in the opening scenes of the book. I think that if you liked Decoy Training, you’ll love seeing the dogs in this new romantic suspense series. The SBS K-9 division series will be available in 2023, but I hope you’ll check out the first book in the SBS series. Lost in Little Havana will be available in November 2022! You can pre-order your copy today at https://www.caridad.com/books/suspense/caridad-little-havana/.
I can’t wait for you to meet the Gonzalez family from the South Beach Security series. Actually, you met some of them already if you read Cold Case Reopened when tech gurus Sophie and Robbie Whitaker (cousins to the Gonzalez family) helped Jackson Whitaker and Rhea Reilly discover the truth about her sister’s disappearance. In the South Beach Security series you’ll get to see Sophie and Robbie help their Gonzalez family solve crimes revolving around murder, human trafficking, domestic abuse, fraud, and hacking! I decided to make this little family tree to show you the relationships between the family members and their books. Oldest son Trey (since he’s the third Ramon) is the hero of the first book Lost in Little Havana. Middle brother Ricardo (Ricky) finds love in the second book Brickell Avenue Ambush. Baby sister Mia is the star of the last book Biscayne Bay Breach. You’ll also get to see more of the Gonzalez siblings and Whitaker cousins when SBS decides to establish a K-9 division. I’m also hoping to give Sophie and Robbie their own stories when they visit Jackson and Rhea in Colorado and find themselves caught up in more suspense! I hope you’ll check out the South Beach Security series which is now available for pre-order at https://amzn.to/3e5qr7I. The first book will be out on November 29, 2022!
