The Lone Rice Ball is almost done!

I finished the rough draft and self-edit today and sent The Lone Rice Ball off to my editor! She’s wonderful and is doing a rush job on it, so I’ll get her edits back tomorrow and do the final revision on my book before sending it to the formatter of the Once Upon a Starry Night multi-author box set.

Here’s the back cover description for Once Upon a Starry Night: A Very Merry Christmas Romance Collection:

Enjoy these 12 brand-new sweet and inspirational Christian love stories of second chances, friends to more, unrequited love, new beginnings, and much more from 12 beloved romance novelists. Merry Christmas, everyone!

A Country Christmas in the Show Me State
by USA Today Bestselling Author Jessie Gussman

Will the hope of Christmas bring these two a second chance?

Holly’s Hope
by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Hickey

Can Holly step out of her shell at Christmas or will she retreat and miss out on the joy of romance?

One Sweet Christmas
by USA Today bestselling author Laura Ashwood

Will a snowy Christmas at the hospital rekindle Sam's holiday spirit and lead him to love?

The Cowboy’s Forever Crush
by USA Today bestselling author Valerie Comer

How can a teenage crush on his best friend’s sister, now a single mom, turn into a mature forever love?

A Fake Cowboy Husband for Christmas
by critically acclaimed author Tina Dee

How will they turn a fake relationship into a real marriage?

Christmas Moonlight Melodies
by critically acclaimed author Christine L. Henderson

Can two musicians rekindle their love or become a love song gone wrong?

Finding You Under the Mistletoe
by USA Today bestselling author Juliette Duncan

Will the small town’s beloved doctor confess his love for the charming diner owner this Christmas?

All the Way Home
by USA Today bestselling author Lesley Ann McDaniel

Trapped in a remote cabin in a snowstorm days before Christmas, Ainsley is determined to make more friends than enemies.

Christmas at Castle Carrick
by USA Today bestselling author Lisa M. Prysock

Confronting the past and a leap of faith could rekindle their marriage.

The Lone Rice Ball
by USA Today bestselling author Camy Tang

Mimi’s apology to an old crush embroils her in a drug investigation and might lead to a second chance at love in Hawaii.

Let Me Hold You
by USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson

She wants to get out of his friend zone and into his heart.

Greetings from Next Door
by USA Today bestselling author Chautona Havig

Some people communicate better on paper... at least, that's what Glynn tells herself.

Pre-order this clean and wholesome collection of novellas today!

The box set releases on October 1st, but you can preorder at a special price of $2.99. The price will go up when it’s released, so be sure to order soon.

Get Once Upon a Starry Night for only $2.99

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I’m done

Captain’s Log, Stardate 05.17.2006 Blog book giveaway: My Thursday book giveaway is THE PREACHER’S DAUGHER by Lyn Cote My Monday book giveaway is BLIND DATES CAN BE MURDER by Mindy Starns Clark . You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned. I’m done. At the beginning of the year, I made a goal of three books this year. That’s four months per book. I started this manuscript January 15th. I finished in the wee hours of May 17th, so it took me about four months, a day and a few hours. Yay me. I’m going to bed now. Yes, this is the espresso maker on the right, and a professional coffee grinder on the left. By the espresso maker, I mean the one I promised to my long-suffering husband if I got a book contract, as a reward for letting me quit my biotech job and write full-time.

Romantic guys

Captain’s Log, Stardate 10.13.2006 Heroes: I’m a TV junkie, I admit it. I’m hooked on the new series called Heroes. (It’s like X-Men, but before they realized their powers and came together to become the X-Men. And without the funky costumes.) Okay, regardless of the X-Men type storyline, one of the heroines—a high school girl—is talking to a boy she likes, the quarterback of the football team. He’s sweet-talking her and being very flattering. She says he doesn’t really know her very well. He goes into this romantic spiel about how he notices she draws unicorns in the margins of her notes in class, etc. Now here I pause the TiVo and turn to Captain Caffeine. Skeptical Asian wife: “That’s so un-guy-like! How realistic is it for a typical guy to say something eloquent and romantic like that?” Captain Caffeine: “It sounds romantic because he’s the quarterback of the football team.” Confused Asian wife: “What do you mean?” Captain Caffeine: “If he were a computer geek, he would sound like...

ICRS Tuesday

Captain's Log, Stardate 07.11.2007 I started the day with a great meeting with Al Hsu , an editor at InterVarsity Press. We discussed Asian Americans—fiction, non-fiction, the church, family. He’s been in publishing for many years and is very wise. We had a great discussion. I also met his wife Ellen, who’s totally nice and is also into card-making! I wandered the floor and happened to meet Robin Jones Gunn. She asked if I’d eaten yet, and since I hadn’t, said to join her for lunch. On the way to lunch, we met Mark Mynheir, and he gave me a copy of his book, got The Void . Isn’t that cool? Robin has so much wisdom. I loved having lunch with her. She gave me such good advice, both professionally and spiritually. I hope I’ll get a chance to have lunch or dinner with her at the ACFW conference in September. I met up with agent Steve Laube, and walked with him to his next meeting, but on the way we were hailed by Cec Murphy and agent Jeff Dunn. Jeff had been the first editor to request...

I GOT A CONTRACT!

Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.29.2006 I had a wonderfully funny blog post planned for today, but I got sidetracked by some news yesterday! Zondervan has offered me a three-book contract on my Asian chick-lit series ! I’m still stunned by everything that’s happened. The series is actually a 4-book projected Asian chick-lit series about four cousins who fall under the infamous family title "Oldest Single Female Cousin," and their ruthless, wealthy grandma applies pressure on each of them to improve their lack of love interests. I think the first book is tentatively scheduled to be released in August 2007. The blurb on the series is on my website here . Brandilyn Collins posted to the ACFW loop about my writing journey, and Tamara Cooper asked that I share it. And since you all know how much I like to talk , here it is. My writing journey: Like most writers, I have wanted to write since I was very young. (In high school, I wrote a fantasy novel that will never see the light of day ...

Ironman

Captain's Log, Stardate 11.12.2008 I realize I’m late in posting this, but I just saw Ironman a couple weeks ago and it was FABULOUS! It was the most entertaining movie I’ve seen in a long time. I even liked it better than Mr. and Mrs. Smith (although that flick is a close second). I think because the acting was great. Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow were fantastic. I especially liked how the Pepper character is an older woman with more maturity than, say, MaryJane in Spiderman . Pepper was strong, intelligent, and relatively cool under fire. And did you guys catch the Easter Egg at the end of the credits??? Awesome!!!

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