Contributors for November newsletter cover a variety of topics

November will be another great month for the newsletter. Our contributors for the upcoming month have lots to share and of course the conference listings and brags will be updated. This will be the first edition with an international guest writer so be sure to upload your issue on November 15. Just visit this site or my personal website, www.morganstjames-author.com for the link.

Many readers have commented that they like the new magazine-style format and I'm happy to say that it will be the format from now on.

Do you have suggestions for future articles or topics you would like to see? Have a brag you want to share or website you want to recommend? This is your newsletter so feel free to submit suggestions.

I also invite you to link to this blog and to add comments.

That's all for today.

MORGAN

By the way, if you received an email last week saying I was stranded in Barcelona and needed money, it was just a hacker doing what they do...breaking into emails and Facebook accounts and harrassing everyone.

I lost my last Facebook account, all of the photos I'd posted and all of the friends I'd added over about two years, so I'm starting from scratch.

Good end to a bad day!

Literary Las Vegas: Morgan St. James
Whoo hoo. I just discovered that the Las Vegas Review Journal, the main paper in town, did an article on me.The RJ did an article about me. The link I'd posted to the article didn't work unfortunately. It is now on the Interview and Media tab of my personal website.

My Facebook Page was Hacked!

Well, I guess no one is safe. Today, much to my dismay, I discovered that I was supposedly stranded in Barcelona and needed quick cash. At least that's what a hacker was trying to communicate to my entire email list. Not only that, but they totally wiped out my Silver Sisters Mysteries Facebook account.

Not that I wouldn't want to go back to Barcelona. I was there for four days a few years ago and loved it, but didn't have to contact every person I'd ever shared an email communication with to bail me out.

Getting serious, I've spent the ENTIRE DAY trying to straighten things out. They say that when you use all capital letters, it's like shouting. Yep. That's me. I'm shouting mad. This is an old scam, and who falls for these things anyway? Particularly when you are supposed to be contacting someone you barely know to send you money. But the hackers continue to do it anyway. A friend from Sisters in Crime told me they had her stranded in Scotland and she hasn't straightened it out yet. At this time of year, I think the weather in Barcelona is probably a lot better. No offense to Scotland, but I don't do well in cold.

After wrestling with this, putting everything else aside and finally deciding there was only one thing I could do as a last resort, I now have a new Facebook account. I lost every friend contact on the old one, so if you were my friend, or would like to be, try to find Morgan St James without a period after the St. That's me. Sometimes it comes up in the search and sometimes not, but that's probably because it's brand new.

If you are a hacker, please don't do it again. Once is enough. I can't send requests to my old friends yet, because Facebook has barred me from doing that for a few days. You see, the hacker got in and destroyed everything, but I can't use Facebook to contact my friends or family just in case I'm a spammer. Where's the justice?

Meanwhile, the new newsletter is getting great comments and I'm delighted. That helped to even out the frustration of today's events. New contributors are contacting me, and future issues will be great.

Have a good night. I was supposed to go to Henderson Writers' Group tonight, and looked forward to hearing work to be critiqued, but instead I'm chilling out. Trust me. I know when I need quiet time!

MORGAN

I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THE UPCOMING ISSUE OF THE NEWSLETTER

October 15 is the date the new format newsletter will be published. Each month it has gotten better and better. We have some great articles, lots of reader brags and wait until you see it. It's more like a little magazine than a newsletter. We publish on the 15th of the month because so many other monthly newsletters publish on the 1st. Remember to send in  article suggestions, brags, announcements and news by the 5th of the month for that issue.
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