Carolina warns not to be fooled by the photo. "Even if you walk most of the race, you want to be sure to break into a run for the camera." Although most of her running days have morphed into walking days, she's completed over a hundred distance races - six of them marathons. Her short story about a murder on the streets she's actually competed on, in the Los Angeles Marathon, appears in a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology.
After a varied career as a registered nurse while winning awards and making sales writing freelance, she decided to retire to finish her first novel. Now she writes about searing passions and the sweetly explosive ecstasies of love.
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INHABITING THE NIGHT by Carolina Valdez
LAPD Detective Trent Edwards rents a house in a mountain community near the only reported sighting of his brother, who's disappeared without a trace. Martin Longhouse, who owns the local fitness center, takes Trent under his wing and introduces him to townspeople who might have seen his missing sibling. Soon, the lust that flares between the two men settles into something deeper.
But Trent doesn't know Martin has a secret, nor does he know exactly who lives in Little Grizzly Lake. Or who, and what, inhabits the woods at night.
When the secrets unravel, Trent discovers his rational cop's mind has a choice - let go of his love for Martin, or open himself up to other realities, other possibilities for his life... 
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Morning Carolina and super congrats on the new release!!! It sounds really good and I LOVE the cover.
ReplyDeleteTell us all about the new book and will it be part of a series?
Also - thanks for the fantastic prize you have up for grabs over on the contest page of www.AuthorIsland.com to celebrate this new release - it's beautiful!!!
Hope to see INHABITING THE NIGHT climbing the list to be another number #1 for you!!!
Have fun with the party!
Congratulations on the new release! It sounds great, I love books with detectives and shifters.
ReplyDeleteI hope Trent's brother didn't become dinner.
acm05atjuno.com
Good morning, DeNita and Anne! So far, this novella isn't part of a series, although my editor and at least one fan have asked me to continue the story of those who live in Little Grizzly Lake. I'm thinking about that.
ReplyDeleteI'd written a novella with shifter elements, but now I decided my hero should be a shifter. In TWILIGHT that time of day heralds the shift. In INHABITING THE NIGHT the shift begins at night, so it seemed natural to put the two together in a trade paperback. WHITE SHADOWS IN DARKNESS is scheduled for release from Amber Quill Press's Allure line toward the end of November.
Carolina
wow i love m/m romance this sounds right up my alley thanks for the peak ;)
ReplyDeletelove.mycats@hotmail.com
Hello, April. You love reading m/m romance, and I enjoy writing it. I also love cats! We don't have one any more because we're away from home a lot and boarding was never satisfactory...from the cat's or our point of view.
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Oh I put my vote in for a Little Grizzle Lake Series - just think you can put a little bit of everything in that town - shifters, vamps, demons, fae - anywhere your muse takes you!
ReplyDeleteSo now I have three votes for a series! Guess I'll have to think harder, won't I?
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened with me when NIGHT TRAIN TO NAPLES was released. My editor and men--yes, men--asked for a sequel. I just handed in NIGHT TRAIN TO NEW ORLEANS. It's on the schedule for release 1/16.
Thanks for the encouragement,
Carolina
Congrats on the new release. I really like the cover.
ReplyDeleteRead the excerpt,it sounds like a great book.
elaing8(at)netscape(dot)net
Congrats on the new release. Sounds like a great read. The cover is fantastic!! I hate to say this but the first thing I noticed was the CAT. He is majestic looking.
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Congratulations on your new release! The excerpt left me (and Trent) wanting more: can't wait. Did you just write SEQUEL to Night Train's on its way? Great! I've been hoping there'd be more to their story.
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Carolina,
ReplyDeleteI came over to your blog when I read you had only one entrant. I know how hard that is on your psyche, so I came to say hi.
Thanks for all the comments! If you've read TWILIGHT or seen its cover, you'll know I love both domestic and big cats. In that story, Cade shifts into the body of a snow leopard. They're such uniquely beautiful animals. And the white tiger? I'm not surprised Judy was first drawn to it on this current cover.
ReplyDeleteResearch revealed that white tigers are not albinos. Their genes determine their color.
And thanks, Dyanne, for coming over when only Anne had popped in. I enjoy visiting with readers and other authors, so that's what's disappointing with lower turnouts.
Carolina
I love the tiger on the cover! Big cats are always the first place I visit when I go to the zoo. There's just something so majestic about them. Congrats on your new release!
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Hello!
ReplyDeleteWhat is your opinion on book trailers? Do you think they help in book sales?
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Tracey D
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I was reading about the book and couldn't help myself from hoping that Trent will open himself up to new possibilities. Love m/m stories and paranormal romances, so I'm all for Inhabiting The Night.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on it's release.
lenikaye@yahoo.com
For booklover0226 re effectiveness of book trailers for sales.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good question! I suspect an amateurish one might squelch sales, so when they first became popular I checked out professional fees and they ran $250-400. That's beyond my pocketbook.
So I haven't used one. I enjoy watching them, but I'm not sure anyone can tell you if they're worth the time or expense. I have a friend who does her own and says they're very time consuming. She does them because she likes doing them. However, she didn't write for about two years and designed them during this quiet period. Her publisher, Amber Quill Press, tracked her sales. Once there was no increase, another time there was.
I heard an Avon editor who was asked this question, say, "Write your next book." In other words, don't take writing time off to do a trailer. The book is more important. However, Avon does use trailers.
Sorry I can't be defnitive on the subject. Hope that helps a little.
Carolina
I appreciate the participation from each of you. And, Leni, if you win a copy of the book you'll know the answer, won't you?
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Carolina: The new book sounds great and the cover is gorgeous. I have 2 cats, boys and one is an albino and he is huge for a house cat.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you participate in all those marathons...so cool...and even if you are walking them you are one up on alot of us who couldn't even manage that. *grin*
Thanks for the info and the chance at great prize(s).
jo
johannasnodgrass(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love the m/m genre and am excited by the paranormal aspect of this book. It's got great sounding suspense and these two men seem smokin' hot together. I'd love to see more of them. Congratulations on its release!
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I have always wanted to participate in one of those walkathons... I will remember the picture advice! LOL
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the book sounds great. (It's the secret formula for me, you know: gay shifters + romance = book Ashley must read.
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ReplyDeleteAs I was winding up NIGHT TRAIN TO NAPLES, I was keenly aware the love story of vampire Alexandros Nicolaides and the Italian human Dante Rocco was unfinished. And then there was Giacomo, out there somewhere in the wind.
I started the sequel even before telling my editor, E.J. Gilmer, or hearing the comments from the men. It was clear there had to be a second story. Now I'm wondering if there should be a third. Perhaps featuring Alex's New Orleans co-worker? I'm thinking it over.
Right now I'm working on an unrequited love story between two former high school lovers now grown up, and one is a rock star, the other his tour manager. I wanted to set it in the fells of the Lake District where Beatrix Potter worked to save Herdwick sheep. Then Christiane France, a Canadian Amber Quill Press author raised in Great Britain, told me what boring country that was! So, now my characters are in Oregon. In sheep growing territory. And there are Herdwick sheep there.
It's nice to have friends. And the Internet.
Beautiful cats, Joey and Joder.
Carolina
Congratulations on your new release. Your book sounds so good and I really enjoyed the excerpt I thought it was so good and hated for it to end.
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Thanks for all your comments. I'll be checking in off and on tonight. At least as long as I can stay awake. I'm on Pacific time.
ReplyDeleteDeNita will notify me of the winner of INHABITING THE NIGHT.
For those of you who like a book in your hands, remember it will be released with TWILIGHT in the trade paperback, WHITE SHADOWS IN DARKNESS, in late November. Amber Quill Press Allure
Carolina
This book sounds so interesting! Thank you for the chance to win!
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Jase
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Congrats on the release. I have added this one to the buy list. Can't wait.
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Good, Beth. Trust you'll enjoy it.
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