Thanking Vince for his awesome review of Courting Miss Adelaide

I found Vince's awesome review of Courting Miss Adelaide at eHarlequin. Thanks, Vince, for reading my debut and giving the book such high praise! Thanks to all my readers who've sent e-mails and letters. Your encouraging words have been a huge blessing. And a humbling responsibility to write, with God's help, the best books I can.

Blessings, Janet

SEVEN TOOLS FOR ADDING EMOTION TO YOUR WRITING

If you're a writer and want to add more emotion to your stories, stop over at Seekerville today. I'm talking about seven tools you can use to give your readers the emotional experience they want. Leave a comment and I'll enter your name in a drawing for my critique partner, Shirley Jump's Miracle on Christmas Eve.

Blessings, Janet

Election Day at last

I've returned from voting. It took about a half hour, but by the time I left the polling place, the lines were far longer. I'm happy to see a good turnout. The weather is gorgeous here in the Midwest. A perfect day to vote. I've prayed long and hard that God's people will vote according to His teachings. I'm leaving the outcome in His hands, knowing God's in control, praying He'll continue to bless our country. America isn't perfect, but its still the best country in the world.

I'll spend the rest of my morning getting my desk cleared and myself organized. :-)

Hope you're having a good day.

Blessings, Janet

This and That

Two people have won a copy of Courting Miss Adelaide, but I don't know how to get in touch with them. If you're Look To Heaven or Sheri of sheriboeyink, please send your snail mail address to janet@janetdean.net and I'll get a book to you. Thanks!

Though Courting Miss Adelaide is off Walmart and many bookstore shelves, readers can still find it at:

Anchor Room in Fort Wayne, IN.

Book Rack North in Fort Wayne, IN.

Borders in Hamilton Town Center in Noblesville, IN.

And of course, at http://www.amazon.com/ and http://www.eharlequin.com/

I want to thank everyone who enjoyed Courting Miss Adelaide and took the time to let me know either with e-mails, notes or voice mails. Your kind words truly blessed me!

I especially want to thank Pamela and Tammy for coming to the ACFW conference to meet authors, I being one. Here we are, mugging for the camera. :-)

Blessings, Janet

Camy Tang is my guest today!

I'm thrilled to have a fellow Seeker, wonderful writer and great friend, Camy Tang, at Cup of Faith today!!!! I just finished her last book in the Sushi series, Single Sashimi, and I loved it!!! It's definitely my favorite of the three.

Welcome to Cup of Faith, Camy!

Thanks for having me here, Janet!

Your books focus on the ups and downs of a big Asian family. Can you tell us about your family life growing up? Perhaps share some memories from your childhood?

My family isn’t actually very big (the large Sakai family is based off of stories told to me by friends about their large Asian families). But like the Sakai family, our gatherings are always focused on the food.

(I personally think that Asian people are all obsessed with food, because where they gather, there’s always food around.)

My mom and grandmothers are terrific cooks. My favorite holidays are:

Christmas, because we’d get Mom’s Chinese chicken salad, Grandma’s lilikoi (passion fruit) chiffon pie, and prime rib.

New Year’s, because we’d get Grandma’s mochi soup (mochi rice balls in seafood flavored broth with Japanese greens.

When did you know you wanted to be a writer?

When I was five. Okay, no, maybe I was eight. I had just read Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey and knew I wanted to write novels, too.

What was your favorite scene to write in Single Sashimi?

The first kiss! I won’t give it away because it’s a bit of a surprise, but it was SO fun to write partly because it came out of nowhere! I was as shocked as Venus.

Tell us what your typical writing day is like.

Messy.

Seriously. LOL

I typically start off answering emails since I want to get my more urgent writing business out of the way so I can have some “creative space.”

If I have critiquing jobs to do through my Story Sensei critique service, I do them in order of priority (basically, whoever hired me first).

Lastly, I spend time in my writing. When I’m in the brainstorming stage, I try to have as much time slotted as I can, because sometimes it takes a while for the creative juices to get flowing.

When I’m in the writing phase, I can pretty much write anywhere, anytime, for any length of time. This is when my Alphasmart comes in very handy.

What are your favorite leisure activities?

Knitting! Oh my gosh it’s not even funny how much I love it.

In fact, I would even venture to say that I NEED it. The action of knitting relieves my stress.

I don’t know how it does it, but the repetitive movements just help me calm down.

I think everyone should knit. Plus, unlike crochet, you don’t necessarily have to look down when you knit, you can often knit without looking. Like I do in front of the TV. :)

I find knitting relaxing too, but only if its scarves or an afghan, something that doesn’t require getting the shape right. My first knitting project was a baby sweater for our first daughter. I must’ve thought she was part octopus. Even rolling them up, the sleeves were so long, she never wore it. LOL

Thanks for sharing a peak at your life with us today, Camy!

Thanks for having me here, Janet!
Camy

Camy Tang writes romance with a kick of wasabi. She used to be a biologist, but now she is a staff worker for her church youth group and leads a worship team for Sunday service. She also runs the Story Sensei fiction critique service. On her blog, she gives away Christian novels every Monday and Thursday, and she ponders frivolous things like dumb dogs (namely, hers), coffee-geek husbands (no resemblance to her own...), the writing journey, Asiana, and anything else that comes to mind. Visit her website at http://www.camytang.com/ for a huge website contest going on right now, giving away ten boxes of books and 30 copies of her latest release, SINGLE SASHIMI.

I'm at Seekerville today

My topic is promotion and titled "What I learned with my First Book on the Shelf." Come on over to www.seekerville.blogspot.com and read about the wild, wonderful, wearing month when Courting Miss Adelaide hit bookstore shelves.

Blessings, Janet

Last chances to win a copy of Courting Miss Adelaide

Monday, September 29: I'm a guest at Cheryl Wyatt's blog, www.scrollsquirrel.blogspot.com

Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2: I'm a guest of Running with Quills with Elizabeth Guest, Jayne Ann Krentz, Elizabeth Lowell, Stella Cameron, Lori Foster, Susan Anderson. www.runningwithquills.com

Friday, October 3: I'm a guest at Carolina Christian Writers www.carolinachristianwriters.com

Leave a comment for a chance to win Courting Miss Adelaide!

Blessings, Janet