Inspired by Morgan St. James' popular Writers Tricks of the Trade column, this book is like the appetizer table at a writing buffet. Packed with tips, techniques and tricks all written in lively, entertaining prose, it is a valuable addition to any aspiring or published writer's bookshelf.

Writers' Tricks of the Trade: 39 Things You Need to Know about the ABCs of Writing Fiction

Reference

St. James, Morgan

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Marina Publishing Group

The Mafia Funeral was inspired by a true incident. When Susan attends the funeral of a young friend whose father was in the Mob, what happens at the church is like a scene from a funny movie complete with an irate priest and five shocked Jewish pallbearers. Later a gangster from San Francisco mistakes her for the daughter of a Mafia mobster. You'll laugh at the funny stories, try to solve the mysteries and feel your heart warm to others. The collection includes several of Morgan St. James's award-winning short stories--some fiction--some true. This is the perfect book to read when time is limited.

The Mafia Funeral and Other Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Twin Sleuths, Old Magicians, Battling Chefs and MURDER! A funny Silver Sisters Mystery.Will the Silver family be able to flush out the real killer or will they all wind up in deadly hot water?Readers are taken on a zany romp through the glitzy world of TV chefs by identical twin sisters-- Goldie Silver an over-the-hill flower child from Alaska, and popular syndicated advice to the lovelorn columnist, Godiva Olivia DuBois, a wealthy Beverly Hills widow. Filled with twists and turns, clues and backfires, these ladies with a nose for trouble set out to track down the real killer when a murder occurs at the glitzy televised Gourmet Gladiator Tournament and Godiva's boyfriend is a prime suspect. To complicate matters, they get lots of unwanted help from their 80 year old mother and uncle, both former vaudeville magicians who love to dress in disguise and go undercover.

A Corpse in the Soup: A Silver Sisters Mystery (Silver Sisters Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bradner, Phyllice

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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.

Vanishing Act in Vegas: A Silver Sisters Mystery (Silver Sisters Mysteries)

Writers Tricks of the Trade was inspired by Morgan St. James' popular Writers Tricks of the Trade column. It contains a little about a lot, sort of like the appetizer table at a writing buffet. It is packed with tips, techniques and tricks--every chapter has something you can use immediately-- and it is all written in lively, entertaining prose. For technique, general information, reference and inspiration on those days when writers bloc strikes, it is a valuable addition to any aspiring or published writer's bookshelf.

Writers Tricks of the Trade

Words, Language & Grammar

This inspiring—and sometimes shocking—TRUE story is about love, trust, incest, murder and, yes, an actual miracle. The producer of the 2017 Discovery ID TV episode featuring Cheryl Cuccio says, " I laud Cheryl Pierson Cuccio and Rob Cuccio for blazoning their traumatic pasts and valiant love story so that others who suffer in silence might be emboldened to seek help. Like so many, I was first drawn to their story for its spectacle, but have come through it deeply humbled and indebted."In 1986 Cheryl Pierson was a sixteen year old abuse and incest victim. Day after day her father placed the fear in her no one would believe her if she revealed their dirty secret. But Cheryl had made a promise to her mother, as she lay in her coffin, to protect her eight year old sister from the monster Cheryl's father had become. To honor this promise and end the daily hell she endured, the distraught teenager hired a classmate to murder her father. The name Cheryl Pierson was in the national media for years, filled with assumptions and fabrications surrounding the murder, but her side of the story was never truly covered from her perspective. The one interview she did give to a reporter was while she was still in shock from what had transpired.Now, after thirty years, Cheryl has come out of the shadows to tell her true story--what really happened behind the doors at 293 Magnolia Drive, and what the life she and Rob have shared has been like. She is a strong survivor and hopes to inspire courage in those who walk in her shoes, and to promote abuse and incest awareness with this book. That strength was called into action in 2012 and the result was a miracle!

Incest, Murder and a Miracle: The True Story Behind the Cheryl Pierson Murder-For-Hire Headlines

Biographies & Memoirs

Cuccio, Cheryl

Cuccio, Robert

True Crime

A Corpse in the Soup

Identical twin sisters Goldie and Godiva take a wild and funny romp through the glitzy world of TV chefs - in search of a killer.  When Godiva Olivia DuBois, a.k.a. G.O.D. - an advice columnist from Beverly Hills - takes her niece Chili to a taping of the TV cooking show Flirting with Food she's selected from the audience as a food taster - and winds up in the hospital with food poisoning. Chili's mother, Goldie Silver, an 'aging hippie' living in Alaska, already sensed trouble through a psychic bond with her twin and immediately hopped on a plane to California. Together these two wisecracking amateur sleuths try to solve the 'who's sabotaging the cooking show' mystery - with the help of their 80 year old mother Flossie and their Uncle Sterling - both former Vaudeville magicians.  Godiva develops a personal interest in handsome Chef Caesar Romano, the star of the show, who just happens to need a new assistant. Chili - already an experienced sous chef - is offered the position but her chance at stardom may be short-lived, because someone wants to eliminate Caesar, the reigning Gourmet Gladiator champion, from the upcoming competition. When this year's glitzy tournament begins, rivalry quickly turns to murder.  Romano is arrested for the crime, and the sisters set out to prove he's innocent. Can they stir up the cooking pot to flush out the real killer without getting into too much hot water?

L & L Dreamspell

Twin sleuths Goldie and Godiva, the Silver Sisters, are at it again-tracking seven stolen teapots from Alaska to LA. When a shipment of Russian samovars fails to arrive in Alaska, antique shop owner Goldie Silver starts to track it down. The ladies from the Russian Orthodox church have ordered one of the fancy tea urns as a gift for the retiring priest, but before the wayward antiques are located, his young replacement is murdered. That's just the tip of the iceberg in quiet little Juneau! After Goldie's twin, the manipulative Beverly Hills advice columnist, Godiva Olivia DuBois arrives for a visit, the lost crate finally arrives. The samovars sell quickly, and Goldie has only one left when two menacing Russians bumble into her shop claiming that the fancy teapots belong to them and demanding their return. She throws them out, but by the next day it seems that the seven beautiful antiques are cursed. Everyone in town who received one of the samovars has been beaten or murdered, and two more customers are likely targets: a lady from Seattle and Godiva's boyfriend, chef Caesar Romano. What are the thugs really after? Will they get away with murder? Our curvy sleuths, Goldie and Godiva, are hot on their trail as they track the Russians from Alaska to Seattle and Los Angeles. To add to the fun, the twins' eighty-year-old mother and uncle, Flossie and Sterling Silver get into the act!

Seven Deadly Samovars

Vanishing Act in Vegas

Goldie Silver's daughter Chili Pepper receives a phone call from her high school boyfriend, Roscoe Bean, and 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 plus 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.

Murder on the Menu: A Silver Sisters Mystery (Silver Sisters Mysteries)

Humor & Satire

Independently published

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