FROM WRITING FUNNY FICTION TO WRITING TRUE CRIME
by Morgan St. James I’m one of those people who definitely is a workaholic. When I’m asked what I do for fun, I often reply that I write — and I read. How lucky is that? Being an author, speaker and columnist with ten books and over 500 published columns to my credit is something I really enjoy and look at as fun. Until last year I mainly wrote funny crime fiction. In the mid-1990s my sister Phyllice Bradner and I came up with the idea for the Silver Sisters Mysteries featuring identical twins born in different decades, different years, different months and on different days. They look like silver-haired Mae Wests and have a talent for solving mysteries, but lest you get the wrong idea, they don’t go looking for trouble, it finds them. Although identical on the outside, they have two very different personalities and lifestyles. One is a wealthy Beverly Hills widow who writes the “Ask G.O.D.” syndicated advice column from her luxurious estate. The other is an over-the-hill fl...