Sisters Become Best Friends while Writing their First Novel Together

Hollywood, CA, August 22, 2006 --(PR.com)-- Morgan and Phyllice, both published writers, teamed up to create a new mystery series featuring twin amateur sleuths, the Silver Sisters, and their wacky show business family. While writing the first book, A Corpse in the Soup, to be released by Wings ePress in September, the sisters realized that in the process they had also become best friends.

How did an advice columnist from Beverly Hills and an aging hippie from Alaska get into such hot water?

"Recipe: Take a bunch of quirky characters, a villain to die for, an engaging plot and put them into the hands of Morgan St. James and Phyllice Bradner. Stir the characters well. Cook for several hours of reading enjoyment. What do you get? A tantalizing smorgasbord, A Corpse in the Soup, that takes the cake!"  Jeannine Van Eperen, Reviewer, GottaWriteNetwork

This cozy mystery marks sisters Morgan St. James’ and Phyllice Bradner’s first fiction novel. Morgan and Phyllice have become best friends while collaborating in the creation of mystery escapades featuring the Silver Sisters, identical twin silver-haired Mae West look-alikes as different as truffles and tofu, and characters reminiscent of their fun-loving wacky family.

Morgan has written many published magazine articles about interior design, human-interest, dementia, travel and barter, and her story, "Shopping for Dancing Shoes", will appear in the soon-to-be-released "Chicken Soup for the Shopper’s Soul." 

Phyllice has won four Alaska Press Club Awards and two national awards for newsletter publications. She is the co-author of a guidebook, "Touring Juneau", and the "Juneau Centennial Cookbook". She was a political print consultant on four gubernatorial races and five candidates for U.S. Senate. Her whimsical cat and dog etchings are displayed in galleries in McMinneville, Oregon and Juneau, Alaska.

A Corpse in the Soup takes the reader on a zany romp through the world of professional chefs who will do anything to win the coveted Gourmet Gladiators Tournament. When one of the chefs is found face down in a bowl of bouillabaisse with a knife in his back during the tournament, the Silver Sisters embark on an adventure that uncovers much more than poisonous mushrooms and cooking pranks.

Morgan and Phyllice were born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. Morgan splits her time between residences in Marina Del Rey, California and Las Vegas. Phyllice, who spent 39 years in Alaska, currently lives in a 100 year old farmhouse in Dayton, Oregon. The sisters started writing together in 1995, with a funny diet book that never got published. When they moved to fiction, drawing upon many of their own traits to create the Silver Sisters, they became so close that when they are together people now ask if they are twins.

Because they live in different states, telephone editing and writing sessions can last as long as four hours. When they first started writing together faxes flew back and forth between Los Angeles and Juneau. With the advent of easy e-mail, their collaboration moved into the electronic age.

A Corpse in the Soup will be available September 1, 2006 from Wings ePress.  Learn more at www.silversistersmysteries.com.

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