( see full image ) At the vet. Hiding under the exam table bc she's not very happy. :(

I’ve mentioned before that I have a thumb as black as night , but I’ve decided to alter that and call it my “accidental thumb” because everything that grows is completely by accident, whereas everything I want to grow, er, doesn’t. I got some stevia plants and used our compost from this past year. I’ve put all our kitchen veggie scraps in the compost, including the squash seeds from when I scrape them out of the squash halves, old tomatoes, etc. Captain Caffeine got me a soaker hose to water the plants since I’m so awful about watering properly, so I used that with the stevia plants. Then within a week or so, I noticed some other plants growing up next to the stevia, and I wasn’t entirely sure they were weeds. In fact, they kind of smelled like tomatoes--you know, that green fresh smell from the stem? I was too lazy too busy to weed, so I just left them and within a few weeks I absolutely knew they weren’t weeds. Yes, that is a tomato plant, practically overpowering my t...

Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of the Writer's City by Katharine Reeve My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love this book, not just as a cute book for self-guided walking tours, but also because the history and historical plates have been so useful to me in writing my current novel, a Regency set in Bath. I visited Bath during my trip to England last year, and fell in love with the town although I didn't have time to explore it as fully as I wanted to. This book brings back my exciting day in the town and adds to it with tidbits about Jane Austen and the history of Bath. The simply drawn maps are easy to follow as I read each of the chapters for the walking tours. I'm not sure how they'd be if I were following them in Bath, but from what I remember of the streets and the walking tour I took last year, I don't think the maps would be hard to follow. I did not expect that the authentic historical illustrations of places in Bath in this book wo...

Today I have romantic suspense author Lisa Harris guest blogging! About Lisa: Lisa Harris is an award-winning author with more than 400,000 copies of her works in print. She was a 2011 Christy Award finalist for Blood Ransom and lives in Mozambique together with her husband, Scott, and their three children. Visit her website at www.lisaharriswrites.com. Photo Credit: © Mariah Harris And now, here’s Lisa! A couple of years ago, I wrote a book set in Africa (Blood Ransom) and the background of the story surrounded the issue of human trafficking and the slave trade. At the time, I didn’t realize that human trafficking was an issue in the US, but the more I read, the more I realized that this doesn’t just effect people living halfway around the world. It’s a problem facing people right where we live and work. But for an issue that seems to far from our day-to-day life, what can we really do about it? First of all pray. Pray for the men, women, and children involved in this ho...

view full image Made garlic noodles according to this recipe: http://youtu.be/j09pazAcRLE Supposed to be similar to Crustaceans Restaurant in San Francisco. OMG it's awesome! Very close to the restaurant version. 

Not the candy, just my dog. I'm using this to test if I can post to my blog from my phone.  ( see full image )

The winner of The Soldier's Sister by Debby Giusti is Sandy F. Congratulations! (I've emailed you. Please email me at camy {at] camytang[dot}com if you didn’t get the email message.) I know the rest of you are crying into your chocolate and Oreo cookie ice cream that you didn’t win. Cheer up! Order the book! WHO WILL PROTECT HER?  Someone wants Stephanie Upton dead. A warning to leave town is just the beginning. Fearing for her life, Stephanie turns to Special Agent Brody Goodman for help and protection. But can she trust him when he's convinced her own brother is a prime suspect? Torn between her devotion to two men—an estranged brother whose trust she yearns to regain and an agent she may be falling for—Stephanie doesn't know whom or what to believe. As feelings between her and Brody escalate, she'll have to choose sides to stay alive.  Military Investigations: Serving their country and solving crimes Excerpt of chapter one: The gathering dark clouds...