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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.

Halloween Monday

🎃👻Guess what today is!👻🎃 Did you know that tomorrow is All Hallows Day, or to certain segments of religion, All Saints Day. I grew up in a small Episcopal parish named All Saints. Needless to say, Halloween was a time … Continue reading

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Friday Sinema: Tulsa Town

I’ll admit, I’m a bit intrigued by this upcoming Paramount+ series. Stallone often entertains me and the fact that it is set in Tulsa, just up the turnpike from where I live, and was filmed there and down here. In … Continue reading

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Questions

Today’s thoughts circle around something that most likely plagues most writers. We spend a lot of our time scared. Scared to start a project. Scared to finish a project. Scared to revise and edit it. And once we get past … Continue reading

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Wednesday Words: The Real Universe

Wednesday has rolled around on the calendar again and we are inching every closer to Halloween. I won the #ThursdayThreads flash fiction challenge week before last with a snippet from my Cajun Wolves WIP. Still a bit in that headspace, … Continue reading

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Tuesday Treats & Titles: Faux Onion Magic

My dad was a cordon bleu chef. He didn’t own a restaurant. In fact, the whole idea of working in the food service industry was pretty much his worst nightmare. As a college student in Colorado Springs, he was fired … Continue reading

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Monday Next to Last

Wow. We’re a week away from Halloween. How is that even possible?!?! Had to tell from the weather. Old Mother Nature is all weird again. We went from an early freeze to 90s for highs. Tosay? Back to fallish weather … Continue reading

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Friday Sinema: The Mount Ain’t Worried

I think stuff like is is beyond cool. The media teacher at Mount St. Mary High School has her students put together this massive project every year. They are responsible for every step of it, with the rest of the … Continue reading

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Thursday Thoughts: Universal Sense

Here we go. Thursday. Which means thoughts. I should have some. And I do. Some. Thoughts, that is. And sometines the thread of a story. Or a hint of a character. And maybe a whole scene that fits…somewhere. Quite often, … Continue reading

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Wednesday Words: Show and Tell

This week’s prompts from #1lineWed and #ThursdayThreads sent me to the back burner where I pulled out my files on the Cajun Wolves. Beau and Luc are deputies in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, which encompases part of New Orleans and towns … Continue reading

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If It’s Tuesday…

I did not want to brain yesterday. Nor was I particularly fond of having to adult. Therefore, I dealt with a headache, no creativity, and next to no iniative. I did manage to polish a few pages before giving up. … Continue reading

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