After the craziness of the Kickstarter, I hope to put Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 7: Spinster  up on Amazon probably in the first week of March. I am currently working on a Christian contemporary romantic suspense, Year of the Dog , because it’s due for the multi-author anthology I’m in that releases in May, Danger in the Shadows.  I’ll probably post the chapters (including the annotated chapters) on my Patreon, but I won’t be able to give a free .epub copy to my paid subscribers since it’ll release in the anthology in May 2025. The chapters will be taken down in May, so be sure to read it while it’s still up on my Patreon. I’ve been posting my Christian contemporary romantic suspense, Protection for Hire , but there’s a chance I might pause it in order to post Year of the Dog , because I am realizing I’m not very good at juggling two contemporary projects at the same time. If I do pause it, I’ll start up again after Bento and Betrayal  is done, probably sometime in the...

Today is release day for my Christian Historical Romance anthology, Once Upon a Courtship ! Get it today for only 99 cents! Price goes up next week! https://bit.ly/lissa-spy

I joined two Christian suspense multi-author anthologies that will release next year in May and October! The May anthology is Danger in the Shadows , and the October anthology is Don’t Blink . I have taken down Year of the Dog from my blog and will instead finish editing/rewriting it for the May anthology, Danger in the Shadows . I decided to do this because I was only working on Year of the Dog sporadically, and I wanted to set a deadline for myself to finish it sooner. To complicate matters, I’ve been unhappy with my decision to leave Sushi and Suspicions as a stand-alone rather than putting it in a series. And I’ve also been unhappy with putting The Lone Rice Ball as a 5th book in the Sushi series when it’s more romantic suspense than the other books in the series. Now that I’ll be writing Year of the Dog for the anthology, and because I haven’t yet released Sushi and Suspicions and The Lone Rice Ball as individual ebooks, I decided to switch things around. I’m rem...

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私のキャミー・タング(クリスチャン・コンテンポラリー・ロマンティック・サスペンス)のニュースレターは先週配信されましたが、見逃した方のために、以下のリンクをクリックしてお読みください。 今回は、ニュースレターの日本語訳にも挑戦してみました。しかし、私はほとんどDeepl.comを使用していました。 今月の私のニュースレターでは、私のブログで無料公開している「ひとり寿司」の日本語版について触れています。また、「結婚式の着物」の表紙に、もともと欲しかったストックフォトについても触れています。 また、新作のユーモラス・クリスチャン・ロマンティック・サスペンス連作小説「戌年」の第3章を掲載しました。 今月のキャミタン通信はこちら。

Thank you all for praying for me! My IBS is getting better, although I’ve had to eliminate more things from my diet. :( It’s so bland now, I was complaining to my mom that I should just eat rice and eggs. The good news is that I’m able to each mochi, and I’m thinking of making some for New Year’s. I actually found an old Regency recipe I had posted before, “Mr. Darcy Would Be Appalled White Soup,” can be easily modified for my IBS diet, so I made that a couple weeks ago. It was very yummy and perfect for our cold weather lately. If any of you know some good gluten-free recipes, please do send them my way! (I’m not actually sensitive to gluten, but I can’t eat wheat because it contains too much fructans, so essentially I have to go gluten-free.) As I’ve been feeling better, I’ve been able to get more and more writing done each day! I’m slowly progressing on Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 4: Betrayer . Even though my health has taken a turn for the worse thi...

The following is a mashup from my November Camy Tang newsletter and Camille Elliot newsletter which both went out this past Wednesday, but I thought it might be nice to post it on my blog, too. *** My health this past month has been like a particularly gruesome car wreck. I’ve had IBS flareups and also sinus headaches, sometimes both at once. I had really thought I had finally started to get control over my IBS and the foods that I need to avoid, but I made a few mistakes (didn’t read ingredients lists closely enough). The sinus headaches have been a little more frequent because of the change in weather here in California and the increased rain showers. I’m finally feeling better and continuing work on volume 4 of my Christian Regency Romantic Suspense epic serial novel, Lady Wynwood’s Spies . I started trying to train myself to write via dictation because once I get used to it, it’s supposed to be significantly faster, and it will help ease the workload on my hands and wrists...

I wanted to let people know that the best way to contact me is posting a comment on either my blog or posting in my Facebook reader group . If you post on my blog, make sure your email address is in your profile so I can reply. On Facebook, I'll tag you so you'll know when I respond. Lately, I had a bad bout with distraction and procrastination, so I decided to change up my internet time. Maybe it's a result of getting older, but I have a hard time switching from a social media/reader interaction mindset to a writing mindset. I guess I just can't switch gears in my brain as easily as I did when I was younger. So until further notice, I'll only be checking email and Facebook on Saturdays. If you comment on my blog or on my Facebook page, just know that I likely won't respond right away. I hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience for people. I figure, if it's urgent, people will usually call or text me. But limiting my internet time seems to ...

This year, I'll be releasing my first Christian Contemporary Romance in 5 years! The Wedding Kimono is the prequel novella for my new series, the Warubozu Spa Chronicles , and will be released in Save the Date , a Christian Romance Wedding anthology, on September 15th. Preorder Save the Date ebook for only 99 cents!

I’ve been reading a bunch of marketing books and articles, and many of them gave great advice on how to blog. So I’ve been trying to be more “formal” in my blogging lately. I don't know if it was noticeable? Anyway, I found it kind of boring and really very restricting since I kept thinking about "value added" for each blog post and all that jazz. But I was still blogging at my Daily Writing Blog because I'm trying to improve my writing productivity, and I was still enjoying blogging over there. I was throwing my messy thoughts up on the web (which most blogging/marketing articles tell you NOT to do) and in the process, I've been able to pinpoint some of my really bad habits. I've managed to fix some of them, and I'm still working on coming up with ways to deal with others. I've also been doing experiments to improve my efficiency and productivity, and I use my writing blog like a lab notebook--I blog about what I intend to do for the experiment...

Some of you wonderful people bought Mistletoe Kisses , the Christian romance anthology I self-published with 7 other Christian authors, which has my short novel, The Spinster’s Christmas included. However, I wanted to revise The Spinster’s Christmas because it had some problems. I wasn’t in a good place self-confidence-wise with my writing when I wrote the book, and so there are some threads that just weren’t resolved well enough for my taste. So I hired Meredith Efken at The Fiction Fix-It Shop to do a macro/developmental edit on the book (a macro edit is a high-level critique that looks at things like plot structure, character arc, pacing, etc.). I just finished doing revisions on the book and ended up rewriting about 25% of it! It’s now with Moonshell Books for copy/line editing, because Shelley has an amazing eye for detail and can let me know if anything is too “modern” or “American.” I’ll be releasing this revised version hopefully the end of this month or early in May...

If you signed up for my email newsletter, you should have gotten it this morning! In case you didn't, here's the archived link so you can get a free ebook copy of Protection for Hire ! Be sure to visit my website and subscribe to my newsletter list so you'll be sure to get my book updates! Protection for Hire Tessa Lancaster's skills first earned her a position as an enforcer in her Uncle Teruo's Japanese Mafia gang. Then they landed her in prison for a crime she didn't commit. Now, three months after her release, Tessa's abilities have gained her a job as bodyguard for wealthy socialite Elizabeth St. Amant and her three-year-old son. But there's a problem or two ... or three .... There's Elizabeth's abusive husband whose relentless pursuit goes deeper than mere vengeance. There's Uncle Teruo, who doesn't understand why Tessa's new faith as a Christian prevents her from returning to the yakuza. And then there's Elizabeth...

I heard this rumor several weeks (maybe even a few months) ago on CNET.com’s Apple Byte video podcast, and at the time, I really didn’t think Apple would do something like this. It’s not as trendsetting as Apple usually is with their products--a smaller iPad would seem more like Apple is keeping up with the trend, instead. But then I read this article about rumors that the iPad mini is coming maybe in the fall. Granted, I really can’t believe everything I see on the internet, but now I’m starting to wonder. I don’t know if I’d buy a mini iPad since I have my regular sized one, and I like the larger screen for watching movies. But if choosing between an iPad mini and a Nook color or a Kindle Fire, I’d definitely go for the iPad mini because the screen and software would be so great, plus the connection to iTunes. What do you think?

Captain's Log, Supplemental My agent called me today with the great news! Zondervan has contracted me for another three books! Right now, they’re all stand alone books—not a series. The first book is slated to release May 2010 and is tentatively titled The Year of the Dog (they’ll probably change it). It’s a women’s contemporary novel. Here’s the back cover blurb from my proposal: Tessa Ota, a professional dog trainer, is having a bad year. While moving ahead with renovation plans for her new dog kenneling and training facility, Tessa needs to move in with her disapproving mother and her antagonist sister. She convinces her ex-boyfriend to take her dog for a few months … but discovers that his brother is the irate engineer whose car she rammed a few weeks earlier. Charles Bretton has enough problems. His mama has just shown up on his doorstep all the way from Louisiana, and his brother has to move in with him after being kicked out of his apartment—with a dog in tow. And guess who...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.22.2008 I won first place in the Debut Author category of the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year awards! Here are all the winners! Debut Author Sushi for One? (Camy Tang) Zondervan, editor Sue Brower Bayou Justice (Robin Miller writing as Robin Caroll) In Between (Jenny B. Jones) Contemporary Novella Finally Home in Missouri Memories anthology (Deborah Raney) Barbour Publishing, editor Susan Downs Moonlight & Mistletoe in A Big Apple Christmas anthology (Carrie Turansky) Remaking of Moe McKenna in Race to the Altar anthology (Gloria Clover) Historical Novella Love Notes in Love Letters Anthology (Mary Davis) Barbour Publishing, editor Rebecca Germany Beyond the Memories in Missouri Memories anthology (DiAnn Mills) The Spinster & The Tycoon in The Spinster Brides of Cactus Corner anthology (Vickie McDonough) Lits Splitting Harriet (Tamara Leigh) Multnomah Books, editor Julee Schwarzb...

Captain's Log, Stardate 09.05.2008 My Single Sashimi blog tour starts today! Here’s a list of the wonderful bloggers hosting me! 9/5 I’m talking about healing at Back In Skinny Jeans 9/8 Tabitha asks me how I get my ideas for my stories and blog 9/12 Gina Welborn makes me admit who's my favorite "child" 9/15 I’m at Ruth (ChristianFictionQueen)’s blog with my top 3 comfort movies, and Ruth reviews Single Sashimi 9/15 I’m at Jennifer’s blog talking about my top five comfort books 9/16 Angie Breidenbach asks me about how the theme of Single Sashimi affects people in real life 9/16 I’m on LaShaunda Hoffman’s blog talking about how to write a query letter 9/17 I’m on Marilynn Griffith’s blog with a fun meme--join in! 9/18 My good friend Danica Favorite and I have a fun interview about how I wrote Single Sashimi 9/19 Gina Burgess asks me about how I come up with my characters and make them memorable 9/22 Alison Strobel Morrow and I chat up about life 9/23 My fav...

Captain's Log, Supplemental Remember that romantic suspense proposal I blogged about earlier? Well, it just sold to Steeple Hill’s Love Inspired Suspense line! I am so jazzed! I am beyond jazzed! The story’s working title is Sinister Spa The story's title is Deadly Intent and here’s a blurb (but it’s probably not what will appear on the back of the book): Massage therapist Naomi Grant could use a massage herself. With her father at home recovering from a stroke, Naomi is put in charge of the family’s elite day spa in Sonoma county. The new responsibilities sit awkwardly on her shoulders, and things only get worse when handsome Dr. Devon Knightley breezes into the spa, demanding to see one of the female clients. And the woman is found dead in Naomi’s massage room. Suddenly, Naomi is a suspect and her family’s spa is shut down. How could God let this awful thing happen? Devon only needed to see his ex-wife about a family necklace she still hadn’t returned, but when she dies and...

Captain's Log, Supplemental Sushi for One? finaled in the ACFW Book of the Year contest ! Twice! Chick Lit category and Debut Author! ACFW's 2008 Book of the Year Finalists: Debut Author Bayou Justice (Robin Miller writing as Robin Caroll) In Between (Jenny B. Jones) Sushi for One? (Camy Tang) My Soul Cries Out (Sherri Lewis) Petticoat Ranch (Mary Connealy) Contemporary Novella ( *six finalists due to a tie) A Cloud Mountain Christmas (Robin Lee Hatcher) Finally Home (Deb Raney in Missouri Memories anthology) Mississippi Mud (DiAnn Mills in Sugar And Grits Anthology) Moonlight & Mistletoe (Carrie Turansky in Big Apple Christmas anthology) Remaking of Moe McKenna (Gloria Clover in the Race to the Altar anthology) Sweet Dreams Drive (Robin Lee Hatcher) Historical Novella Beyond the Memories (DiAnn Mills in Mississippi Memories anthology) Finishing Touches (Kelly Hake in Missouri Memories ...