Carolina Valdez was seven when she fell in love with words and writing. Despite marrying her college sweetheart and raising three children, her need to write couldn't be squelched. She wrote while her family slept, and saw her fiction and non-fiction pieces published and winning awards.
The southern California author is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America. Her erotic male/male romances are consistently Top Ten Best Sellers in Amber Quill Press's Allure (GLBT) line. "Tie 'Em Up, Hold 'Em Down" finaled in the 2009 Passionate Plume Best Published Novella Contest, and her male/female stories have placed twice in The Lories Best Published Novella contests. Valdez is a member of Sisters in Crime, and her short mysteries appear under pseudonyms with various publishers. In addition to writing, she enjoys her family, reading, music of all kinds, movies, figure skating, golf, and bicycling with her husband.
Carolina's eighteen-mile bicycle training route