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About Silver James

I like walks on the wild side and coffee. Lots of coffee. Warning: My Muse runs with scissors. Author of several award-winning series--Moonstruck, Nightriders MC, The Penumbra Papers, and Red Dirt Royalty (Harlequin Desire) & other books! Purveyor of magic, mystery, mayhem and romance. Lots and lots of romance.

Magic Moments

I’m trying something new where the Penumbra Papers are concerned. (Not that I enjoy procrastinating or anything! Shhhhhhh….) I thought I’d make “postcards” out of some of the memorable lines from the books. People can pin them on Pinterest. Share … Continue reading

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Labor Day + Amazon = Books

Don’t forget to pass the word along to anyone who might enjoy a quick mystery read or a longer paranormal thriller read. CAFE MIDNIGHT and BLOOD MOON are free today only on Amazon (midnight to midnight PST, September 2). Here … Continue reading

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Long Weekends & Sales

It’s Friday. Monday is a holiday here in the States. Labor Day. That means a long weekend and lots of big sales. I’ve never quite figured out why Labor Day = Sales. Or President’s Day for that matter. Or any … Continue reading

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Magic’s In The Air

THAT OL’ BLACK MAGIC is working its spell on me, and evidently on the Universe, too. In the past week, I’ve had two messages pertaining to magic show up in the ol’ inbox. MAGIC is off to the editor and … Continue reading

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Perfect Timing

Perfect timing. Serendipity. Kismet. Good luck. Being in the right place at the right time. Call it what you will, sometimes we have it. Sometimes we don’t. This seems especially true when it comes to publishing. When a manuscript arrives … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tally and Stuffs

I left the two polls I posted last week up as promised. Eighteen people voted. Thank you! Here’s the tally. On the subject of newsletters: 10 people (56%) might sign up, 6 (33%) love them, and 2 (11%) hate them. … Continue reading

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Monday’s List of Things to Do

Well…dang. My to-do list of last week didn’t quite get finished. 😦 I would have marked off everything but for a couple of wrestling sessions with HTML code on the OKRWA site–and by a “couple”, I mean two days’ worth! … Continue reading

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Curiosity and Cats

Here’s the curious part… I’m exploring various avenues of marketing focused mainly on interacting with readers. Would you vote in these brief polls?     See? Easy peasy. And now your reward–a LOLcat. 😉 Polls will remain open for a … Continue reading

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A New Week

This is the week I get caught up. Stop laughing. I’m serious. I don’t have that much to do, relatively speaking. I will finish BLACK MAGIC–first draft and some edits. I will finish contest reads and reviews. I will critique … Continue reading

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Bucket List – 91-100

This is it. The last ten items on my list. Maybe I should take off the ones I’ve done and make a new list. Naw. I wouldn’t do that to y’all. You’ve been very patient with my…whatever prompted me to … Continue reading

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