KIMBERLY MARTIN thought her day couldn't get any worse. In the span of a heartbeat she went from riding high to the depths of despair. Returning from a conference where she was named WOMAN OF THE YEAR, she felt like a triumphant empress returning to her minions until she opened her office door to a scene of utter chaos. Within minutes she went from Vice President of Finance to unemployed.Really down in the dumps, she thought her boy-toy lover would be at home to comfort her, only t...

3rd Edition, Updated for 2018Writers' Tricks of the trade is like the appetizer table at a writing buffetTips, tricks and exercises in easy to read, sometimes humorous prose.Morgan St. James has written over 600 published articles about the craft and business of writing and writes columns in two editions of examiner.com. She has authored or co-authored 16 books with more in the works, and speaks from experience. St. James shares what she has learned through...

Writers' Tricks of the trade is like the appetizer table at a writing buffet. This FOURTH EDITION includes more Exercises and updated links for resources at the time of publication.Tips, tricks and exercises, all in easy-to-read, sometimes humorous prose, will jump start or improve your creative energy and skills. Morgan St. James has written over 600 published articles about the craft and business of writing and wrote columns in two editions of examiner.com. She has authored or co...

Morgan St James is the author of twenty books including the Silver Sisters Mystery series, the Revenge is Fun series, and over six hundred published articles. She has been fortunate to lead an interesting life, filled with various careers and travel to many cities and countries that all add inspiration and authenticity to her books. After co-authoring the successful true crime books Bella Capo's memoir, No More Crying Angels and Cheryl and Rob Cuccio's memoir, Incest, Murder a...

Writers' Tricks of the Trade is like the appetizer table at a writer's buffet! It is written in easy-to-read prose, seasoned with humor and anecdotes, and should be on every fiction author's bookshelf as a handy reference.The book was inspired by St. James advice column for writers in an online publication. She is the author of award-winning novels, short stories, and over 600 articles about the craft and business of writing.

Author Morgan St. James tells the story of how she became a "COUGAR" with a combination of humor, sexual exploits set in England and Holland as they were in the 1980s.Names have been changed, but almost everything else is true. She and her friend, both 42 at the time, took a trip to England completly paid for by Morgan's cheating millionaire boyfriend.St. James says: "In modern times the term "Cougar" no longer just applies to those sleek cats who identify and stalk their p...

A comical look at what it takes to be an official Jewish Mother and how to deal with one. A Jewish Mother doesn't have to be Jewish, a mother or even a woman!Just about everyone has heard oodles of jokes about Jewish Mothers. Comedians love them. One day when I had nothing better to do, I started to wonder, "What really qualifies someone to be a Jewish Mother?"You see, my mother was Jewish, but she would have been drummed out of the corps in a heartbeat for failing to confo...

In 1949, when Morgan St. James was nine years old, her family moved from Chicago to Miami. It was a disaster for the smart Yankee who wore glasses, couldn't play sports well and wore shoes to school. She viewed being smart as a curse. By the time Christmas came, she was miserable. Find out what happened next.The family moved back to Chicago the following year. Much happier and much poorer. That Christmas, Morgan and her sister learned what love means.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD 3 WEEKS IN ENGLAND AND LOTS OF GORGEOUS YOUNG ENGLISHMEN? Audrey's "wheeler-dealer" millionaire boyfriend has sent her and Audrey's best friend Susan to England, all expenses paid after Susan's husband dies. He had leased a cottage in Surrey, sight unseen and says, "What could be more perfect than having you and Susan check it out for me?" Of course, Audrey is excited beyond belief but doesn't know he has an ulterior motive.The taxi driver pulls up in f...

Laurel Murphy awoke in a strange bedroom to the terror of being drugged, bound and gagged . All this beautiful teenager ever aimed for was a career as a professional ballerina. Instead her dream was crushed when she was kidnapped, sold into a brothel raped and brutalized and finally left for dead.Contrary to what the kidnappers thought, she didn't die. As Laurel managed to rebuild her body and a new life, deep within her soul she dealt with the need for revenge. Then a chance meeting chang...

Join Kimberly, Cameron and Kate as they unravel the twists and turns in this clever crime caper. When Kim and Kate paid a visit to Los Angeles, she never dreamed the three of them would become involved in going undercover to help crack an ingenious drug money laundering scheme.Ever since Cameron Harsen was fired by voicemail after ten years with the Century City advertising firm of Reid/Cunningham years before, she vowed she would get even with them. Desperate for ...

Life in the upscale Los Angeles area community of the Venice Canals takes an ominous turn when the Vice President and Treasurer of the HOA appear to have been kidnapped, and the cops are looking in all the wrong places. Cameron Harson and her neighbors, former FBI agent turned author Danny Garrett and a retired Army Colonel, plus her friend Kate Steele and Danny's friend Margaret Stanton join forces to investigate. What appeared to be kidnapping turns out to be so much more including murde...