January 9th, 2009
Amy S.
Congratulations!
Check out LM Gonzalez. She is next on the blog tour.
http://www.freewebs.com/lesmora/
The tour wraps up with Tracy Montoya
http://tracymontoya.blogspot.com/
January 9th, 2009
UPDATE: We have two winners of yesterday’s blog tour at Barbara Caridad Ferrer’s place. She had such great responses that Barb chose two people to win. And the winners are…
mskat and tortoiseshell
Congrats to the winners!
Bienvenidos! If you’ve never stopped by my website, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to look around. If you click on Bookshelf there at the top, you’ll find a trailer for my novel Dark Waters. 
The winner of today’s contest will receive an autographed copy of Dark Waters and bath salts scented with Japanese fragrances. If you’ve made other stops on the tour, you know the drill. I will post an excerpt below after which I will ask a question. Post the answer in the comments along with a name of some sort so that I can get in touch with you and I’ll choose a winner at random from among the correct entries. That’s all it takes.
Before I get to the post, let me give a little background. Dark Waters is a romantic suspense novel set on the island of Vieques, off of Puerto Rico. I had a blast writing Frankie and Rico’s story. I hope you’ll be intrigued by what you read below:
God save him from stubborn females.
He pulled a lock pick out of his pocket and went back to the kitchen door. In a matter of minutes he was inside. His eyes swept the kitchen, noting the clean counters and dishes lying in the draining board. The scent of onions and garlic lingered in the air. Well, she’d obviously eaten.
He retraced his steps from the afternoon until he was at the bottom of the staircase. He could see where Frankie covered over the hole he’d made with a patch of plywood. As much as he wanted to run up the stairs, he didn’t dare. Carefully, he tested each tread before taking a step.
While moonlight filtered into the rooms downstairs, up here, with all the doors to the hallway closed, he could barely see his hand in front of his face. Quietly, Rico made his way down the hall until he came to Frankie’s door.
He rapped lightly. Still no answer.
Moving to the side of the door, he reached over, turned the handle and gave it a small push inward. He glanced in and then slowly stepped over the threshold, grateful for the moonlight that enabled him to see.
Fresh sheets covered the bed. The room looked neat and tidy.
No Frankie.
What the hell had happened to her? God help him if she’d been snatched…
He didn’t pause to wonder why his fear she’d had an accident had morphed into something worse. He didn’t have to.
This house had him on edge, while his mother’s request had him balled up so tight he could bounce.
A sound caught his ears. Exiting the room, he moved silently down the corridor. The noise grew louder, like a herd of sick cows. When he reached the room where the sound came the loudest, he threw open the door and went in low and fast, ready to deal with the threat.
Frankie rose before him, moonlight casting its soft glow on the water droplets sliding down her torso and into the claw foot tub she stood in. Her mouth opened and closed and, in that second, Rico catalogued every gorgeous inch of her, from her perfect, dusky-tipped breasts to her shapely thighs.
“What do you want?” Her voice came out reed thin, her eyes wide.
He’d terrified her. Rico held his hands out, palms open. “I brought your truck back, Frankie. When you didn’t answer the door, I got worried and let myself in. I’m not here to hurt you.” He spoke low and soft, willing her to listen to his words. He almost missed the change in her eyes from fear to majorly ticked off, but he wasn’t left in doubt long.
Frankie exploded into action. She grabbed a bar of soap and hurled it at him, hitting him smack in the chest.
Instinctively, he caught the soap before it fell to the tiled floor. “Want me to get your back?” Relief coursed through him. Not only was she okay, she was in kick-butt NY mode. He could live with that.
“Get out!” she screamed. “Out! Out! Out!”
The gentleman in him grabbed up a towel and held it out to her. The other side of him wanted to wipe every drop of water off her sexy body, but he highly doubted she would let him.
Frankie seized the towel and wrapped it around her. “Get out!”
“I’m going. But, why are you taking a bath in the dark?”
“Because the damn fuse blew and I wasn’t about to go traipsing around the house wet and naked. Satisfied?”
Hell, no! But, feeling a definite tightening in his groin at the image, he decided not to answer. Safer that way. At least with this woman.
“Now are you leaving or do I have to get mean?”
“You got a weapon on you? All I saw—”
“Shut up, Lopez. I swear you’re dead meat.” Her hands tightened into fists at her sides.
“Need a hand getting out of the tub?” he asked hopefully.
“That’s it. You have five seconds to get out of this room or you and that toilet brush are going to become personally acquainted.”
“Okay, you win,” he said, holding his hands up in the air in mock surrender. “Anything but the toilet brush.” He winked at her and left the room, shutting the door with an audible snap. Leaning against it, he closed his eyes. He could hear her stepping out of the tub. Could imagine her rubbing that lithe body down and wished he were the towel. The image of Frankie rising up from the water like some goddess out of a Greek myth would stay burned onto the back of his eyelids for a long time. And if he told her, she’d probably try to have them surgically removed.
He grinned so hard the sides of his mouth hurt.
The bathroom echoed with her creative curses in both Spanish and English. The woman sure had a mouth on her.
Feeling incredibly lighter, Rico spoke through the closed door. “Frankie?”
“What?”
“Would it make you feel better if I got naked too?”
Here’s your question: What does Frankie throw at Rico?
Don’t forget to answer in the comments and I hope you’ll stop by again!
January 2nd, 2009
Feliz Ano Nuevo! Happy New Year!
It may be cold outside but these ladies are turning up the heat Latina style. Come join us for the 2009 NuncaSola New Year’s Blog Tour.
Hop on the tour bus and head to the first blog. Each day a new author will be posting, answer the question by commenting on the blog, then follow her link to the next author’s blog the following day for a fresh story, the name of the previous day’s winner, and a new chance to win!
Thurs. Jan. 01: Misa Ramirez
http://chasingheroes.com
Fri. Jan. 02: Jamie Martinez Wood
http://jamiemartinezwood.blogspot.com/
Sat. Jan. 03: Julia Amante
http://juliaamante.blogspot.com
Sun. Jan. 04: Berta Platas
http://www.bertaplatas.blogspot.com/
Mon. Jan. 05: Mary Castillo
http://marycastillo.blogspot.com/
Tues. Jan. 06: Alisa Valdes Rodriguez
http://alisavaldesrodriguez.blogspot.com/
Wed. Jan. 07: Margo Candela
http://margocandela.blogspot.com/
Thurs. Jan. 08: Caridad Ferrer
http://fashionista-35.livejournal.com/
Fri. Jan. 09: Gabriella Hewitt
http://www.gabriellahewitt.com/blog/index.php
Sat. Jan. 10: Tracy Montoya
http://tracymontoya.blogspot.com/
December 11th, 2008
Simone Elkeles, author of Perfect Chemistry has put together this absolutely fantastic rap trailer for her YA book. She’s got two versions, the uncut and the G-rated. I watched the uncut. It’s clever, it’s hip and it’s a must-see. I won’t say any more. Get yourself over to her website and check this trailer out. Tell me what you think. and tell me you don’t want to go out and buy this book.
Major kudos to Simone!
Coming in December 2008!
A modern tale of star-crossed lovers with a fresh urban twist. At Fairfield High School, on the outskirts of Chicago , everyone knows that south-siders mixing with north-siders can be explosive. So when Brittany Ellis and Alejandro “Alex” Fuentes are forced to be lab partners in chemistry class, this human experiment leads to unexpected revelations – that Brittany ’s flawless reputation is a cover for her troubled home life, that Alex’s bad-boy persona hides his desire to break free from gang ties, and that when they’re together, life somehow makes more sense. Breaking through the stereotypes and expectations that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart, Perfect Chemistry takes readers to both sides of the tracks in a passionate love story about looking beneath the surface.
November 19th, 2008
Thursday November 20, 2008
Jamie Martinez Wood will be joining us to chat with the 6th Grade class at Riverhead Charter School on Long Island, NY.
Biography:
Jamie Martinez Wood is a former assistant to reknown literary agent Julie Castiglia, Jamie Martinez Wood. She is the author of Rogelia’s House of Magic and has written for young adult and nonfiction categories, including The Enchanted Diary, Como Te Llamas, Baby? and A to Z of Latino Americans: Latino Writers and Journalists, for which she recently won the 2008 International Latino Book Awards for Best Reference Book.
She lives in California with her husband and children. This is her first novel. You can visit her at www.jamiewood.com.
Rogelia’s House of Magic
IN ROGELIA’S HOUSE OF MAGIC, three different 15-year-old girls find friendship and special powers as they are trained in the ways of the curandera by a wise old woman.
When Rogelia becomes a maid at Marina Peralta’s home, it’s obvious to Marina and her friend Fern that they have a real mystic on their hands. Soon Rogelia agrees to teach the girls the magic of their ancestors, much as she taught her granddaughters, Xochitl and Gracielia. Even though Marina and Fern are thrilled to have this chance to understand and use their powers, Xochitl isn’t happy about sharing such a sacred thing with anyone but her sister, who perished in a car accident. Besides, magic has let Xochitl down before. Why wouldn’t it now? But, as the girls will eventually discover, at Rogelia’s House of Magic anything is possible.
October 28th, 2008
I’m in the spotlight. Come check out my interview over at Raine Delight’s blog.
http://authorrainedelight.com/2008/10/in-the-spotlight-gabriella-hewitt/
October 9th, 2008
Signed a copy of Dark Waters for Legislator Ricardo Montano from Suffolk County, NY Legislature!
October 1st, 2008
CATHY M. !!!
Congratulations to Cathy M. You have won a download of my Shifters Book Heart of the Nile.
I want to thank everyone who stopped by and left a comment on my blog post. I hope you will continue to visit and check out what’s in store for you in the way of Excitment. Passion. Suspense.
Cathy please drop me a line by sending me an email through the Contact button above.
September 28th, 2008
September 30th I will draw a winner for a copy of HEART OF THE NILE ebook.
There is still time to enter the contest.
September 26th, 2008
I had such a blast at the booksigning. Sold most of the books to toal strangers, which I have to admit is was totally nerve racking to do.
I have to be honest. I forgot my own camera to take pictures.
Thankfully, my family came and took pictures.
Sasha Tomaszycki (1/2 of Gabriella Hewitt) at Borders in Famingdale, NY.
Chatting up book with a customer.
Moer on the way!
