Jianne Carlo knows multi-cultural romance. Born to an Indian father and a Hispanic mother (intent on becoming a nun), she met and married her Dutch-bred immigrant husband in her last year at college. Their children check off the majority of the boxes under the category, Ethnic Origin.

Add to this the fact Jianne grew up on a sixty by forty Caribbean island where the population mixture represents the world's religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity (and some mixtures no one's dreamed up) and you have a multi-cultural woman who believes the word, 'Mutt' represents the best of human nature.

For the factually inclined, Jianne has a Bachelor's Degree in English and Sociology, and a Master's in Management Science with three areas of concentration, Computers, Finance, and Statistics.

She's lived and worked in Canada (Ontario, Vancouver), the United States (San Francisco, various small cities in southern California, Miami, and Parkland) and the Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Tortola) and South America (Guyana).

Her passions in life center around her proudest achievements, a happy marriage (measure of happiness varies with level of irritation), and three grown sons of the finest caliber who she's proud to call friends, although they're never allowed to forget the mom factor.

Other areas of interest include, travelling, meeting new people, reading, working with all animals, Equestrian dressage, cooking, eating said food, and sipping good wine, while hanging out, ('liming' in Trini-speak) with friends. Jianne's proud to announce the only carbonated beverage she drinks is champagne. Who needs Coke?

And you never want to be in the same room if she picks up a dart and aims for the target.

Run for your life.

Hi,

If you love fast paced novels filled with unexpected twists and turns, and hot romance, read my books. The titles alone clue you in to what I love to write, Manacled in Monaco, T is for Temptation, D is for Desire.

Here's what the reviewers are saying:

Manacled in Monaco

For ten years, Rolan Anthony Paxton, has been at the top of his game as wide receiver for the Patriot's. Three Super Bowl wins, women at his beck and call, and a young buck gunning for his position, there is still a honey-eyed innocent from his past that stars in his fantasies. He thought he was dreaming when Ms. Honey-eyed herself, Sarita Khan, walks into his stateroom on the luxury yacht he has chartered. The dream continues when Rolan meets their ten-year old son, Anthony Rolan Khan. Their attraction hasn't faded over the past ten years and now it is even headier. Has fate given him another chance to make Sarita and Tony permanent fixtures in his life' Only time will tell as one of the largest trials of Rolan's life is thrown at him.
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What fun this was to read! Rolan was a woman's walking wet dream. He was commanding, fun, and sensitive. I loved Sarita from the beginning. She was fierce. Independent and a fighter; she immediately became one of my favorite heroines. Rolan and Sarita's relationship seemed to pick up where it left off without the interference of parents. I loved how Ms. Carlo didn't make every aspect of their relationship perfect. The conflicts and problems they encountered were realistic and that is what made this book so hard to put down. And I must say, the sex was hot enough to melt a block of ice if it were in the vicinity of anyone readying this book. I highly recommend this book for anyone just wanting to read something good, hot, and sexy.

That review was from Fallen Angels and it made my day, maybe my entire year! When I read a book, I want to be lost in its world, consumed with every page, and unable to put it down. So, when I decided to write, that's the type of book I wanted to produce.

I tend to write secondary characters I fall in love with, so Manacled has become the first in my Mambo Mediterranean series. T and D are the first two in my paranormal Witchy Women series.

Since I grew up in the Caribbean and have travelled far and wide (the first thing you want to do when you've lived on a 60 by 40 Caribbean island is LEAVE), I decided to situate my books in places I love.

That means the Witchy Women series is set in different Caribbean islands, T in Trinidad, D in Barbados, and because I know and love each island, I mention the places the locals visit and support. So many people take cruises to the Caribbean and end up in the tourist traps, take a look at the restaurants and locales in these two books and get to see the island from a native's viewpoint.

Hopefully, you'll enjoy the excerpt I've posted from Manacled in Monaco. Please visit my website: www.jiannecarlo.com and enter the Caribbean Cruise for Two contest! I love to hear from my readers, my email is jianne@jiannecarlo.com.

JC

Short Bio:

Delilah Marvelle spent her youth studying various languages, reading voraciously, and playing the pianoforte. She confesses that here ends the extent of her gentle breeding. She was a naughty child who was forever torturing her parents with countless adventures that they did not deem respectable. Confined to her room on many occasions due to these misadventures, she discovered the quill and its amazing power. Soon, much to the dismay of her parents, she rather enjoyed being confined to her room.  And so, her writing continues. An RWA member since 1998 and a two time Golden Heart Finalist, Delilah's debut book, Mistress of Pleasure comes out September 2, 2008 and is book 1 in the five book School of Gallantry series.
 
Letter to the Readers:
 
Dearest Readers,

As this is my debut novel, many of you will not know what to expect from me.  As such, I decided to give thee a wee bit of what everyone can expect.  The best way to describe what I write is this:  "Wicked and humorous historical romance unfit for polite society."  And there you have it.  My stories aren't really erotica, but they're pretty gosh darn close, and nothing is off limits in my world when it comes to subject matter.  Prudes need not apply.  I basically try to push the boundries of society for my favorite time period, 1830.  Realistically speaking, 1830 had more than their share of naughty men and women, they simply had work around all those pesky rules set up by "polite" society.  And those are exactly the people I love to write about.  The naughty rebels of society that would astonish even the modern reader in a humorous, yet realistic light.

Cheers to all of you,
Delilah Marvelle
 
 
Behind the scenes:
 
I adore all the characters I am including in all 5 books and am geniunely excited to spend time with each and every one of them.  Though I have to say that it's quite a bit of work because of the way I am writing them.  All 5 books actually take place at the same time.  So in some cases you'll be seeing the same scene throughout certain books, but from a flipped POV.  What's great about doing it is that I get to understand each and every character more in depth and challenge who they are throughout every book.  As a reader, you don't have to read the books in any particular order because of everything that happens within the same timeline.  Of course, the first and the last book definately set the tone, but otherwise, anything goes.  The hard part of writing the books this way is making all the characters and the plot stick to what I've already written.  So I'm techinically writing all 5 books at the same time.  Which is mad but fun.  I keep a calender of 1830 (an actual calendar from that year so the days are really accurate to that time period) that tells me who was where and why there were there and key events.  So I don't screw anything up.  Bottom line, I love dirty humor and I Iove setting myself and my characters up for a good challenge.  So what people will always get out of me (or at least I hope...) is funny, hot, and the not so typical situation.
 
Book 1, Mistress of Pleasure (out September 2, 2008), introduces us to the School of Gallantry, a school that educates men on the topic of love and sedcuction.  We meet its very sensual and very practical headmistress, Madame de Maitenon and her indepedent granddaughter, Maybelle de Maitenon (our heroine).  And of course the arrogant but oh-so-dashing duke of Rutherford, who enrolls into the school solely because of Maybelle.  What really sets the tone for this book is how Maybelle with VERY little experience when it comes to men is forced to take over the lesson plans for her grandmother who suffers from a form of apoplexy.  My favorite scene?  It happens in the classroom when the students (all our future heroes) are being taught how to properly make use of a dildo to better pleasure a woman.  Hero included.  I personally never laughed so much while writing a scene.
 
Book 2, Lord of Pleasure (out August 4, 2009), introduces us to Lady Chartwell, who is a financially ruined widow forced to take up a position at the School of Gallantry to keep her sanity and finances in order.  Lord Hawksford (whom you meet in book 1) is a charming rebel rouser once known to all of London and its besotted women as the Lord of Pleasure (yes, hence the title).  What would a man with so much experience want out of a school like the School of Gallantry?  Truth be told, nothing, for realistically speaking what man thinks he needs lessons in the department of love and seduction?  No, he sadly, unrolls quite unwillingly.... 
My favorite scene in book 2?  It involves the heroine interviewing the hero during the application process.  I've never had so much fun making the hero squirm in his seat.  My favorite character?  (Aside from Lady Chartwell and Lord Hawskford, of course).  Mary.  Or as all her sisters like to call her, Morbid Mary.  She is the twelve year old sister of Lord Hawksford (he has five of them, mind you, poor man).  And why do I adore her so much?  Because she is obssessed with death in a most unconventional manner and makes for a very quirky and funny character for the book.  Think of a goth girl set in 1830 about to hit puberty.  Oh yes.
 
Then there is book 3, tentatively called Moment of Pleasure.  I am still working on this, but know that it involves Lord Caldwell (Hawksford's best friend who enrolled in the school most willingly) and a scandolous champagne party that changes his life forever.  For those of you that don't know what a champagne party is, it is a wild party hosted by wild characters who force their male attendees to not only carry a glass of champagne in each hand (to keep the men's hands occupied and foxed, mind you) the men also are forced to walk around with blindfolds until midnight.  The women are given the freedom to see their men make do with no use of their hands or their eyes.  And Lord Caldwell will be taken advantage of by our heroine, I assure you.
 
Book 4, which sadly has no name, features Lord Banfield who is having "marital" problems.  Need I say more? 
 
Book 5, which sadly also has no name, features the dark and mysterious Lord Brayton who is my version of the 40 year-old virgin (although he's more 35).  Too many books are written about heroes with SO much bloody experience, I thought it time to change that.  Of course, there is a reason behind him being a virgin and therein is the beauty of his story...