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 was re-reading Protection for Hire the other day because I’m planning to start work on book #3 in the series soon. Then I read the Fat Burger scene, and just could NOT stop laughing. I couldn’t believe I wrote that! Captain Caffeine looked at me rather strangely when I was sitting there giggling to myself but I couldn’t even stop laughing to explain to him what I was laughing at. And then when I finally could explain it to him, it just sounded dumb. Go figure. Anyway, here’s the scene, which was from chapter twelve (I think … correct me if I’m wrong since I don’t have a copy near my desk to check). Tessa, my heroine, is at her mom’s house with her client, Elizabeth St. Amant, and Elizabeth’s three year old son, Daniel (who owns a pink-polka-dotted stuffed dog named Slasher, which is a story in itself). Tessa has never had a great relationship with her older sister, Alicia, and hasn’t been much involved with Alicia’s 13-year-old daughter, Paisley, since Tessa was in prison fo

Today, I’m on Lyn Cote’s blog talking about Wings domestic abuse shelter in the Protection for Hire series. I’m also doing a giveaway of A Dangerous Stage ! Click here to read the blog post and enter the giveaway.

Source: endless.com via Camy on Pinterest In chapter one of Protection for Hire , Elizabeth St. Amant is wearing some droolworthy gold shoes. I imagined them looking a bit like this. Don't forget to pick up book 2 in the Protection for Hire series, A Dangerous Stage ! On sale now!

Source: jessica-alba-wallpapers-hot.blogspot.com via Camy on Pinterest When I wrote Tessa Lancaster in Protection for Hire, I envisioned her looking like Jessica Alba, especially for her fight scenes since I had watched the TV series Dark Angel. :) Don't forget to pick up book 2 in the Protection for Hire series, A Dangerous Stage ! On sale now!

Okay, so I’m not the most observant person, but I also don’t often go on Amazon to look at my books. I admit that I had a freakish addiction curiosity when I was first published, but then I got busy writing more books and now I only check Amazon occasionally rather than once an hour. So I didn’t notice until yesterday that the ebook versions of Protection for Hire and all my Sushi series books from Zondervan are now only $6.99! And not just on Kindle, but on Nook, iTunes, and Kobo, too! The last time I had looked, they were all still $9.99 or so. ( A Dangerous Stage is $8.99, which is still cheaper than the print copy price, $9.99. ) So if you didn’t have a copy of my Zondervan backlist and want one, $7 isn’t a bad price to pay for each of them, right? Protection for Hire Nookbook Kindle iTunes Christianbook.com BOOKSAMILLION.COM Kobobooks.com Sushi for One? Nookbook Kindle iTunes Christianbook.com Kobobooks.com Only Uni Nookbook Kindle iTunes Christianbo

I gave an interview at the Avon signing at the RWA conference at the end of July and they just aired a clip of it on NPR! http://www.npr.org/2012/08/15/158699571/a-rainbow-of-happy-endings-in-ethnic-romances Update: Here's the link to the transcript if you can't do the audio: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=158699571

I’m reading the book by Elizabeth Ford that was published in 1947, but it’s hard to enjoy because it smells like old lady perfume. Yuck. Talk about shades of Velma .

In Protection for Hire , I needed a really gnarly name for Charles’s date at the big cocktail party, so I sent out a tweet/Facebook status on Saturday night, November 6th, 2010, around 10 pm: Anybody around? Quick, give me first and last name ideas for a nasty old lady. I got a ton of ideas! People came up with the most horrific names! LOL I finally chose Velma Crackenburg. Velma because it sounded faintly vampish to me, and Crackenburg because it brought to mind one of those old ladies who are so outrageous and crazy that when you tell your friends about her later, you say, “This woman was on crack, I tell you!” Velma was from Mia Fisher, Cracken was from Rebecca Stanford, which I altered to Crackenburg. (Tryphena Sturgeon was a close second!) Mucho gracias to: On Facebook: Rebecca Stanford, Mary Vee, Mia Fisher, Carla Olson Gade, Martha Artyomenko, Molly Scharper, Kimberly Tapley, Diane Savocchi Shaw, Helen Bratko, Laura Brokaw, Kristi Robinson, Richard Mabry, Patty Smit

I absolutely adored the TV show Chuck . So in Protection for Hire , Charles’s alias at the party, Charles Carmichael, is in honor of Chuck Bartowsky’s favorite alias from the TV show. There also used to be a Captain Awesome reference, but unfortunately my editor took it out. So here’s the original excerpt from chapter 23: Josh led Velma out onto the dance floor and Charles drew Tessa into his arms. He felt as if a circle had been completed. She looked up at him, her brown eyes glowing with flecks of emerald. He thought she might have stopped breathing—he knew he did. He’d been wanting to hold her since the moment he saw her at the foot of his stairs, regal in that blue gown. She hadn’t been transformed so much as enhanced—before, her confidence had been in her walk and her athletic grace, but tonight, it shone from every pore, in the tilt of her chin, the sway of her hips, the toss of her head. His hand at her waist tightened. “The music’s started,” she murmured, and he rea

In Protection for Hire , there’s the character of Josh Cathcart who appears twice--once when Tessa is picking up her new friend Karissa, and again at a very dangerous and romantic ball. Those of you who read my Sushi series may also remember Josh from a particularly memorable scene in Single Sashimi that involved massive amounts of red peppers and a slice of pizza--which really happened to a youth group member at my church. :) In case you haven’t read it or need a refresher, here’s Josh’s first appearance in Single Sashimi . I think it completely explains his behavior in Protection for Hire . :) In this scene, Venus is helping with the church youth group and the scene opens with a youth group game that we really did at my church several years ago. Josh, a tall high school boy, clutched his stomach with one hand while the other still held the half-eaten slice of pizza. Except it was no ordinary pizza—this one had gobs of dried red pepper flakes piled on top of it. Sweat streame

Did anybody else notice something different about the Protection for Hire book trailer? My Zondervan marketing director told me they’d do this, so I was kind of expecting it. The words on the trailer applied for both books because the trailer was introducing the premise of the entire series. So rather than making a brand new trailer for book 2, A Dangerous Stage , which would have a lot of the same stuff in it, they instead changed the background coloring and design of the existing trailer to mesh the color and art schemes for book 1 and book 2. Originally it was all green and yellow, and now they’ve added more of the red and yellow from the cover of book two. Check it out: What do you think? Preorder A Dangerous Stage ! It’ll release November 2012!

I didn’t notice until yesterday that book 2 in my Protection for Hire series, A Dangerous Stage , is now available for preorder! Isn’t that cover awesome? Zondervan’s art team ROCKS! Back cover blurb: Tessa Lancaster worked for her uncle in the Japanese mafia until she was sent to prison for a murder she didn't commit. Now, after finding God behind bars, she takes odd jobs as a bodyguard to keep her distance from the family business. In A Dangerous Stage, the second book in Camy Tang's Protection for Hire series, Tessa gets caught up in the web of lies surrounding a shady singing competition. Hired by one of the contestants, she works with Charles Britton---the lawyer who sent her to prison---to discover the dark figures manipulating the contest from behind the scenes. Tessa's abilities will be tested like never before as she's forced to balance the safety of her client's family and her deepening relationship with Charles. In the midst of the chaos, she ho

I hope you check it out! http://destiknitions.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-authors-who-knit-camy-tang.html

Isn't he a cutie? This is actor Bradley Cooper. He's what I envision my hero Charles from Protection for Hire looking like.

Captain's Log, Stardate 03.23.2012 In case some of you haven’t seen my videos on Facebook and don’t know what I sound like (dorky), I had a radio interview on station CJSF with K.P. Wee, and the MP3 of the interview is up on the web. Here’s the link: http://www.cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2012_March_21_13_30.mp3 The interview starts 4 minutes 28 seconds in after the opening song. And did you know that the ebook of Protection for Hire is only $3.99? The sale ends on Sunday (I think) so get your copy now! And give copies as gifts to your friends and family! Read an excerpt here. Buy Ebook: Nookbook Kindle Christianbook.com BOOKSAMILLION.COM Kobobooks.com

Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.14.2012 Protection for Hire ebook is now only $3.99! For a limited time so grab your copy while you can! This is almost the same price as my mass market paperbacks with Love Inspired Suspense! Here's the back cover blurb: 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's lawyer, Charles Britton, who Tessa doesn't know is the one w