Early ReviewersMorgan St. James

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October 2023 Batch

Request By: October 25 at 06:00 pm EDT - 6 days left!

When Crystal Reed met Mark Hunter through a casual encounter she though she met the perfect man. Instead she finds herself entangled in a web of obsessive love and dark secrets, a world that has become tainted by deception and treachery. It is a dangerous game of twisted love and betrayal. Faced with the shadows of his past and a burning desire for her own freedom, Crystal tests whether she has the strength to unravel the danger and reclaim her life. What she discovers chills her to the bone. This gripping tale questions the boundaries of trust and the depths of the human spirit.

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November 2022 Batch

Giveaway Ended: November 28 at 06:00 pm EST

Murder on the MenuQuick Look
Digital audiobook

It's a new zany Silver Sisters Mystery narrated wonderfully by Kathleen Bond!

This is the fifth book in the Silver Sisters Mysteries, a comical crime caper series, so now all of the Silver Sisters Mysteries are available as audio books, paperback, Kindle and ePub.

Identical twins Goldie Silver, an over-the-hill flower child from Juneau, Alaska and her identical twin Godiva Olivia DuBois, a wealthy widow who writes a syndicated advice to lovelorn column from her Beverly Hills estate, don't go looking for trouble—it finds them. Their 80-year-old mother and uncle are former vaudeville magicians who love to dress in disguise and go undercover but always seem to end up in hot water.

In Murder on the Menu, Goldie's daughter Chili Pepper receives a phone call from her high school boyfriend, Roscoe Bean with a fantastic offer to move to Portland, Oregon and become Executive Chef at a new restaurant. Is it worth it for her to leave her career on the Flirting with Food TV show? You bet it is. The new restaurant is owned by Jordan Jambon, who has just been named as one of the top 20 chefs in the country. What she doesn't anticipate is a rash of murders, all in the Pettygrove mansion where she and Roscoe, Jambon, her Alaskan friend Ozzie and a seemingly innocent girl from Minnesota named Willow are roommates.

The plot deepens in every chapter, and, like every Silver Sister Mystery, the ending is a twist.

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Review of the print edition: Little D

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic

Another great read with the Silver Sisters and family. This story brings us to Portland for the opening of a new restaurant that Chili will be the executive chef. She is sharing a home with several roommates and people are not who they seem to be. After a couple murders take place the ladies are on the case. Sit back and enjoy the wacky and keep you on the edge of your seats mystery. So I have read every Silver Sisters mysteries, can you please write some more?

Review of the Kindle edition: Martha A. Cheves VINE VOICE

5.0 out of 5 stars murder, suspense & humor!!!

I've read all of the Silver Sister Mysteries and have loved every one. I know murder isn't supposed to be 'light hearted' but with the characters in this series, you can't help but feel a touch of humor in the writings of Morgan and Phyllice. Their character names are priceless. You've just met Chili Pepper but you'll also meet her mother and aunt - Goldie and Godiva, as well as her grandmother Flossie Silver and her uncle Sterling Silver. And then there's Chili's TV boss Caesar Romano. So, like I said, this is a light hearted mystery that will keep you lightly on the edge of your seat while you try to help the sisters solve the murders. I myself found the ending to be a surprise.

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Digital audiobook
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October 2022 Batch

Giveaway Ended: October 25 at 06:00 pm EDT

Watson Falls: A Small Town with a Deadly SecretQuick Look
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Mack Peters enjoys the good life now, but it always wasn’t that way. Twelve years before, tragedy struck on a lovely Sunday morning, as Mack and his father, Beverly Hills Police Chief Bill Watson, finished their breakfast on the patio of a Beverly Hills restaurant. At the time, Mack was a member of the LAPD. In his quest for peace of mind, he resigned from the LAPD and backpacked through Europe for an extended time.

After Mack returned to the States, the former LA cop struck it rich when he came up with an ingenuous idea that gave him a lot of free time and produced millions of dollars. If asked what he does for a living, he says with a smile, “I go to my mailbox and collect checks.”

With a thriving business that practically runs itself, he has the luxury of being able to take off on trips when the spirit moves him. His friends Marcie and Kurt Conklin suggested that he visit a quaint town in Washington State called Leavenworth, and it wasn’t hard to persuade him. But they had an ulterior motive—a motive that resulted him agreeing to help one of their friends track down her missing sister. That led him to the remote small town of Watson Falls and a situation and people more deadly than he could have ever imagined.

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September 2019 Batch

Giveaway Ended: September 30 at 06:00 pm EDT

Series: Revenge Is Fun (5)
Choice of .MOBI, ePUB, or PDF BOOK 5 IN THE REVENGE IS FUN SERIES releases Sept 2. PREORDER KINDLE bit.ly/Scammed-K EPUB bit.ly/Scammed-ePub PAPERBACK soon. Things are going amok. Kidnapping and a need for revenge in the upscale Venice Canals area of LA, but that's not all. Advertising exec/amateur sleuth Cameron Harsen and former FBI agent Danny Garrett get acquainted at their HOA board meeting and join forces to solve the puzzle. Add Kate Steele, CEO of FraudBusters, high-powered Beverly Hills real estate broker Margret Stanton, Retired Army Colonel Michael Thompson and his aged Afghan Hound Clarence, and you have the recipe for massive scams, revenge and murder. #humor #mystery #murder#crimefictionseries
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Fiction and Literature
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June 2015 Batch: 2 Books Offered

Giveaway Ended: June 29 at 06:00 pm EDT

The Silver Sisters are back and this time they're in Las VegasWhat secret is the beautiful magician Mara the Magnificent hiding?A fun-filled Silver Sisters escapade in "Sin City"... After Godiva's son Torch buys a condo in Las Vegas, his grandmother Flossie and great uncle Sterling decide to pay him a visit. When the old vaudeville magicians drag him to the Pageant of Peacocks starring sexy Mara the Magnificent it's love at first sight. The romance blossoms but when Torch returns from a meeting in L.A., Mara seems cold and distant. Torch turns to his mother, the advice columnist, for a helping hand. Godiva agrees to check things out during her upcoming trip to Vegas, when she joins her twin sister Goldie at a big antique expo. Flossie and Sterling tag along for a second trip to sin city. The family gets a shock while attending Mara's show, where a stagehand dies during the performance. Police call it accidental, but Mara is convinced its murder. Torch told her about his family's uncanny ability to solve mysteries, so she begs them to investigate the death of her friend. They start to poke around in their clever but kooky fashion and uncover an even bigger mystery. This time Flossie and Sterling take the lead and when they uncover a diabolical plot they come close to doing a disappearing act of their own! Twists, turns, murder and mayhem. Just when you think you've solved it, something else happens.
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Series: Revenge Is Fun (4)
"Bumping Off Fat Vinny" is a lighthearted look at the attempts the authors Margaret Stanton, Danny Garrett and Maria Mancuso make to do away with a scoundrel who seemingly has more lives than a cat, and confirms the old adage that the best laid plans of mice and men sometimes do, in fact, go astray. The authors were contracted to write the true story of Maria Mancuso, widow of murdered Mob boss Tony “The Nose”. They knew they had produced the ultimate true crime story—one that would receive an avalanche of literary awards and mountains of praise from their publisher, Fat Vinny Vitali. In fact, their agent had already pitched the story to a movie studio and a contract was pending. How could it get any better? Then the bad news. Fat Vinny refused to accept the manuscript as written, instead, demanding the authors actually solve the murder of Tony “The Nose.” He threatened to hold the project in limbo until they gave in to his demands. After several tense meetings with Fat Vinny and consultation with an attorney, the authors gave into the fact that the only way out of their publishing contract was if Fat Vinny died. The more obnoxious he became in his demands, the more convinced they were they might have to help Vinny's "untimely" demise. The fun begins when the three writers become murder conspirators, in what they believe will be a foolproof effort to save their book and the movie deal.
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Legacy Member Giveaway Batch

Giveaway Ended: April 9, 2015 at 09:31 pm EDT

The Silver Sisters are back and this time they're in Las Vegas What secret is the beautiful magician Mara the Magnificent hiding? A fun-filled Silver Sisters escapade in "Sin City"... After Godiva's son Torch buys a condo in Las Vegas, his grandmother Flossie and great uncle Sterling decide to pay him a visit. When the old vaudeville magicians drag him to the Pageant of Peacocks starring sexy Mara the Magnificent it's love at first sight. The romance blossoms but when Torch returns from a meeting in L.A., Mara seems cold and distant. Torch turns to his mother, the advice columnist, for a helping hand. Godiva agrees to check things out during her upcoming trip to Vegas, when she joins her twin sister Goldie at a big antique expo. Flossie and Sterling tag along for a second trip to sin city. The family gets a shock while attending Mara's show, where a stagehand dies during the performance. Police call it accidental, but Mara is convinced its murder. Torch told her about his family's uncanny ability to solve mysteries, so she begs them to investigate the death of her friend. They start to poke around in their clever but kooky fashion and uncover an even bigger mystery. This time Flossie and Sterling take the lead and when they uncover a diabolical plot they come close to doing a disappearing act of their own! Twists, turns, murder and mayhem. Just when you think you've solved it, something else happens.
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September 2011 Batch

Giveaway Ended: September 26 at 06:00 pm EDT

Choice of Format: ePub - works on most readers or Kindle This book is like the appetizer table at a writers' buffet. Each chapter is packed with tips, techniques and tricks for published and aspiring fiction writers alike that can be used immediately. Morgan writes the Writers’ Tricks of the Trade column in two editions of the online newspaper www.examiner.com with overviews and advice about writing fiction. Many of the topics she presents in workshops and talks at writers’ conferences and writers’ group meetings found their way into her columns. St. James says, "I’d wanted to write a how-to book for quite some time, and in many ways this book brings me full circle. I started my writing career with how-to articles, and now I’m covering a craft I am passionate about." Writers Tricks of the Trade is a compendium of information that deals with the many of aspects of writing fiction presented in a light, conversational manner seasoned with humor.
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