CARIDAD PINEIRO-Guest Post and Giveaway with the Author
KISSED BY A VAMPIRE Blog Tour
As a writer you always wonder what you can do to make yourself a better writer? Or what mistakes you’ve made in your writing life?
My first mistake, I think, was not starting my writing career earlier. Well, correct that. I wrote my first book in the fifth grade, but I really didn’t devote myself to getting published until after my daughter was born many many many years later.
Why did I decide to do it then? Well, it was a case of deciding to finally follow a lifelong dream and show my daughter that you should never be afraid to chase your dreams.
I did follow my dream then and it took nearly seven years for me to get the call. It is a day I will never forget and the years since then have been a rollercoaster ride for me as an author, but that’s not unusual.
Ask most authors and they will tell you just how uncertain a career it is. You can have talent and yet not have your books sell. You can have a great idea that your editor just can’t get the powers-to-be to acquire.
Despite that, you keep on writing. Why? Because you can’t stop reaching for your dreams.
THE CALLING/REBORN vampire novels is a series of my heart that I had to battle to get published. When I was trying to sell the first book in the series, no one wanted vampire stories. All I heard was that no one was reading vampire stories. LOL! How times have changed
But I stuck to it and THE CALLING/REBORN vampire series now has many novels, including my latest release, KISSED BY A VAMPIRE. It’s been wonderful to be able to tell these paranormal romantic suspense stories.
I particularly love KISSED BY A VAMPIRE because the heroine is such an outrageous, tortured and complex character. Stacia is a 2000 year old vampire who is not only tired of eternal life, but believes that it’s impossible for her to find love. For too long she’s settled for second best. That is until sexy DEA Agent Alex Garcia comes into the picture.
Alex is honorable, handsome and too sexy. Stacia thinks he’s too good to be believed, but as they are tossed together time and again as Alex tries to find the missing daughter of a colleague, Stacia realizes that he really is as good as he seems.
That goodness and honor call to her and for the first time in hundreds of years, Stacia imagines that love might just be possible.
I hope you’ll take a moment to check out KISSED BY A VAMPIRE and share in my dream and a series of my heart.
Click HERE for our review of KISSED BY A VAMPIRE
Kissed by a Vampire
by Caridad Pineiro
October 16, 2012
Harlequin Nocturne
A vampire who has given up on love gets a second chance from a most unlikely mortal…
For two thousand years, vampire elder Stacia has roamed on her own, haunted by the betrayal that turned her into a creature of the night. Her nights looming empty and eternal, Stacia longs for love, but settles for quick bites and sinful pleasures in South Beach. Until she comes face-to-face with the unforgettable DEA agent she once brought back from the brink of death.
Alex Garcia knows that demons exist-the real kind, the kind that are kidnapping women and selling them into slavery. Finding those victims is his focus-not a beautiful seductress whose otherworldly abilities can’t possibly be real. But when Stacia summons all her powers to prove what she really is, Alex will summon all his to believe in the vampire’s kiss….
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Caridad is offering a copy of THE CLAIMED (release May 2012) and some SWAG to one lucky member at The Reading Cafe.
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4. Contest closes October 22, 2012
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KISSED BY A VAMPIRE BLOG TOUR
10/06/12 – All Thing Books
10/07/12 – Literal Addiction
10/08/12 – Books-n-Kisses
10/09/12 – United by Books
10/10/12 – Encounters With The Night Kind
10/11/12 – The Hispanic Reader
10/12/12 – Sizzling Hot Books
10/13/12 – Grave Tells
10/14/12 – The Jeep Diva
10/15/12 – The Reading Cafe
10/16/12 – Book Lovin’ Mama
10/17/12 – Riverina Romantics
10/18/12 – Romancing The Book
10/19/12 – All The Fun Start After Dark
10/20/12 – Ramblings From This Chick
10/21/12 – Book Monster
