Ruby Caine leads a double life.
Ruby Caine leads a double life.
She is a teacher and a writer of romance novels with religious characters who find their “happily ever afters.”
Caine is her pen name, a move she maintains to keep her writing and personal life separate, but her fervor for the River Parishes runs through both as a native and lifelong resident of St. Charles Parish who has spent her entire life in Luling.
“I have always longed to be a writer,” she said. “My family has always been involved in writing, but I have dyslexia and growing up I didn’t know what it was. Letters mixed up for me. When I get nervous, even names are impossible for me, but now I teach kids who have reading problems and, through my experience helping them, my reading and writing has really improved.”
By working with others with reading problems and figuring out how to reach them, she figured out how to reach herself.
She also welcomes the opportunity to be a role model for her children, particularly when two of her four children are dyslexic.
Caine said she is proof that anyone can go as far as they want.“I’ve always had a wild imagination,” Caine said.
She studied book trends and found “Fifty Shades of Gray” was the hot seller and wrote “10 Shades of Pink.”
Blushing Publications Co. published it and she has since written a follow-up book that brings her to eight books circulating.Her works include “The Spirits of the River Oaks” series, as well as the “Katrina’s Aftermath” series.
Caine has a book coming out this week, called “Taming His Creole Beauty,” where the two main characters are very different.
An older woman meets a younger man who is deaf from a Cajun family. She comes from a Creole family, but the hardest part for them is she’s Baptist and he’s Catholic.
She also has a book coming out on Sept. 11, has another book about to be submitted to her publisher and is writing another novel now.
Caine’s forte’ is the romance novel, but not the kind typical to the genre.As a Catholic, her characters have strong religious beliefs.
“They kind of break the rules, but they always end up with their happily ever after – married,” she said. “I’ve even had a character sent to confession in the middle of the book.”
Caine loves being published and hopes to write children’s books eventually, but for now she wants to get “Ruby Caine” established.
The name “Caine” came from one of her favorite characters in the author Julie Garwood’s novel, “Guardian Angel.”
The first name came from her son, who told her that “Ruby” would give her pen name a splash of color. Her son, an artist, also made a drawing that gives Ruby Caine a face.
Although she’s had some success with her novels, she’s not giving up her teaching job.
“I’m just thrilled that somebody’s enjoying my stories,” she said. “I love reading, which is strange for a dyslexic because I used to hate it, but I at least read one to two novels a week now. If I can make people laugh, I say, ‘Ohhhh, yesssss.’ I’ve entertained somebody.”
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