· Self-Publishing on Draft2Digital - https://www.draft2digital.com/sidneystjames · Get More Subscriptions from YouTube – with TubeBuddy - https://www.tubebuddy.com/sidneystjamesshow · Convert Audio Podcast to Video Podcast for YouTube - https://repurpose.io/?aff=48660 Novels from Bookstores and Libraries Around the World · Mystery & Suspense Romance, “Belem Towers” by Sidney St. James o https://books2read.com/u/mdGL8w · Detective Murder Mystery – “Ace of Spades, Part I” featuring Vincent Gid...
Mar 09, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 3
The best romance books in 2022 are one of the best selling genres. But, what are the other high ranking genres to consider writing. When making this podcast, I have also taken into account subgenres. So let's look at them and see if the book you wish to write falls into one of these categories. FIRST IS ROMANCE – CONTEMPORARY AND HISTORICAL Romance is always one of the top-selling book genres and has been that way for many years. In fact, it has never tumbled out of the top five bestselling book...
Mar 09, 2023•34 min•Season 5Ep. 2
· Self-Publishing on Draft2Digital - https://www.draft2digital.com/sidneystjames · Get More Subscriptions from YouTube – with TubeBuddy - https://www.tubebuddy.com/sidneystjamesshow · Convert Audio Podcast to Video Podcast for YouTube - https://repurpose.io/?aff=48660 Novels from Bookstores and Libraries Around the World · Mystery & Suspense Romance, “Belem Towers” by Sidney St. James o https://books2read.com/u/mdGL8w · Detective Murder Mystery – “Ace of Spades, Part I” featuring Vincent Gid...
Mar 09, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 1
· Self-Publishing on Draft2Digital - https://www.draft2digital.com/sidneystjames · Get More Subscriptions from YouTube – with TubeBuddy - https://www.tubebuddy.com/sidneystjamesshow · Convert Audio Podcast to Video Podcast for YouTube - https://repurpose.io/?aff=48660 Novels from Bookstores and Libraries Around the World · Mystery & Suspense Romance, “Belem Towers” by Sidney St. James o https://books2read.com/u/mdGL8w · Detective Murder Mystery – “Ace of Spades, Part I” featuring Vincent Gid...
Mar 08, 2023•34 min
· Self-Publishing on Draft2Digital - https://www.draft2digital.com/sidneystjames · Get More Subscriptions from YouTube – with TubeBuddy - https://www.tubebuddy.com/sidneystjamesshow · Convert Audio Podcast to Video Podcast for YouTube - https://repurpose.io/?aff=48660 Novels from Bookstores and Libraries Around the World · Mystery & Suspense Romance, “Belem Towers” by Sidney St. James o https://books2read.com/u/mdGL8w · Detective Murder Mystery – “Ace of Spades, Part I” featuring Vincent Gid...
Mar 06, 2023•18 min
If you have ever wanted to self-publish your own novel, be sure to tune in to Season 5 on the Sidney St. James Show. All the ends and outs of becoming a self-published author will be discussed over 20 episodes. Everything you ever wanted to know is discussed and for ease of finding the websites I discuss, please fell free to click on any of the links below: · Self-Publishing eBook, Paperback and Audio with Draft2Digital - https://www.draft2digital.com/sidneystjames · Get More Subscriptions from ...
Feb 13, 2023•18 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Season 4 Episode 17 The Best Christmas Gift Ever Finding Blessings When You’re All Alone Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James. I am recording a memory that I had when I was five years old. Yep, there’s something about times in our later years that Christmastime has a way to bring out some of those memories that have been buried for years. Today is one of those memories. Recently, I began reflecting on a time in my life I hadn’t thought about in a while. I began remembering the time when I was five y...
Dec 25, 2022•19 min•Season 4Ep. 17
YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves… is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. — 1 John 4:7-8 The Bible says God is love. Not just that God can be all-loving. He is love. And… because he is love, God created us to have a relationship with him. Because he is love. Our Father in heaven offers us his mercifulness. Hello everyone. Sidney St. James, on a few days before Christmas giving tho...
Dec 24, 2022•33 min•Season 4Ep. 12
SEASON 4 EPISODE 20 CHRISTMAS MEMORIES - ONCE UPON A TIME Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James here to say Merry Christmas and Good Tidings to All. The Christmas Season season is a special time of year. It’s a season to connect with each member of your family, and create memories and traditions that your family and kids will remember when they are older. Creating memories as a family also gives your children a secure foundation and understanding of their identity in the family. MAIN NARRATIVE Once u...
Dec 24, 2022•23 min•Season 4Ep. 20
SEASON 4 EPISODE 13 "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?" 'Why Have You Forsaken Me?' Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James. Today I search for answers on my show like I have done in many other scenarios. Again, I am not an ordained minister, and don't profess to me. But I'm a caring and believing man who asks numerous questions. Many years ago, I wrote my first novel, ADVERSITY . I asked so many questions that I became a Professional Genealogist. Then, I wrote the ROSE OF BRAYS BAYOU and found...
Dec 24, 2022•29 min•Season 4Ep. 13
SEASON 4 episode 11: December 24, 2022 A MEMORIAL COMMEMORATING THE 1914 CHRISTMAS TRUCE IN ENGLAND Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James with you in the Holiday Season of 2022. And, in only four days one of the most amazing things happened that many are not even aware. As you probably already have experienced, it’s during the holidays that traditions happen. Driving around the neighborhoods looking at Christmas Lights. Little ones remaining in bed in the morning hours waiting and wondering if Santa ...
Dec 19, 2022•24 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Hello Everyone. Welcome to one of my specials during this Holiday Season. Sidney St. James with you today. Throughout my twenties, I’ve learned so much about genuine love, and in that, realizing the importance of cultivating relationships and surrounding yourself with people who get you on a soul level. Over the last month or so, I’ve read a post or two from a couple of my favorite blogs on friendship and how to maintain those relationships. Since reading those, I really started thinking about t...
Dec 18, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Season 4 Episode 4 IN THE LIFE OF A NOVELIST AND HOW MUSIC PLAYS A VITAL ROLE Hello Everyone. Sidney St. James. Today is a fun broadcast and one where I go back a decade and cover some of my best selling novels and how each one has a dramatic scene that I could never have written without the help of music. About five years ago, Amazon sent me an invitation to write the screenplay for FAITH – Seventy Times Seven. Well, the truth of the matter, I am on my fourth pass of writing it as it is actuall...
Dec 06, 2022•34 min•Season 4Ep. 4
SEASON 4 EPISODE 6 EVERY DAY IS THANKSGIVING by Sidney St. James How often on any given day do you say thank you, Lord? Just the other day, on the way to Pickleball, someone almost turned right into me in the car. They didn't, and I shouted, "Oh, thank you, God!" What happens when you wake up in the morning? You try to get your eyes open and move, and your only motivation is that God is your God. Jesus Christ is the Lord of your life and will be with you at home, at work, and wherever you go all...
Nov 23, 2022•25 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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Nov 18, 2022•18 min•Season 4Ep. 8
SEASON 4 EPISODE 2 I BELIEVE – God’s Not Dead He’s Really Alive! Hello Everyone. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2. Sidney St. James here. I was talking with my wife today after her Bible Studies about Job in the Bible. The fourteenth chapter and the fourteenth verse. Job is in the Old Testament, the place where my novel GENESIS had its beginning. But today, in this particular scripture, we will talk about how it is the oldest book in the world. There’s not another known book in this world as old a...
Sep 22, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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Sep 12, 2022•17 min•Season 4Ep. 1
SEASON 3 EPISODE 22 THE WRITING OF SEEING THE POWER OF GOD – WHY DOES GOD KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE? OPENING NARRATIVE Why in the world does God kill innocent people? That is one of the questions Billy Bob Thornton asked his Father repeatedly in the book SEEING THE POWER OF GOD. Hello everyone. Sidney St. James here with one of the most thought-provoking novels I've ever written, and through creative writing, try to answer the question, "Does one have to believe in the Bible to be a Christian?" In my...
Aug 01, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Season 3 Episode 20 If I Could Dream Dreams Don't Come True, They Are True! Dreams tell you what you really know. Hello everyone. Sidney St. James. Last night it wasn't me that was having a dream, but my wife. No kidding here, but all of a sudden, I found opened my eyes, and she was beating the crap out of me! I immediately opened my eyes, and began shouting, "Whoa! Whoa!" Then, she turned over and went back to sleeping while I laid their completely awake at 3 in the morning staring at the ceili...
Jun 18, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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Jun 18, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Season 3 Episode 18 Spirituality vs Religion THREE BIG Differences Between Each Greetings Everyone from the Great State of Texas! Sidney St. James here. You’ve probably heard people say they’re “spiritual but not religious” when describing their faith, and wondered what it truly means. Actually, this morning my wife and I were talking about what I was working on in my podcast show for the week and I told her it was a puzzle about solving to help me with the writing of my detective series. Then ...
Jun 18, 2022•23 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Season 3 Episode 17 LIST OF CLUES 1. A Canadian lives in a beautiful house with Orange walls. 2. An Australian has a bunch of hamsters chasing each other in a cage. 3. A Frenchman drinks Remy Martin Louis XIII Brandy. 4. The home that has the Yellow walls is just to the left of the home that has the violet walls. 5. Now, go back and check out the house with the green walls. The owner of it drinks Jim Beam whiskey. 6. The man who smokes Camel Cigarettes has a bunch of rabbits as pets. 7. The owne...
Jun 18, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Stories play a huge role in our lives, larger in fact that many of us know. Sure, we love to read stories, we love to see our favorite stories on the big screen, we love to tell stories, and some of us even like to make up our own stories. But stories serve a much more significant role in our lives than simply to entertain us, they have a much greater significance. We as human beings are story-shaped creatures. We are born into stories, raised in stories, and live and die in stories. Whenever th...
Jun 04, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 15
Welcome, everyone. Sidney St. James again with Part II of "Growing Up in a Small Town!" This may seem a little funny, but it was the simple things of growing up in a small town I grew to appreciate about my alma mater, Eagle Lake High School. I loved when the sunset turned the sky into a canvas of pinks and purples. I was excited when local events, like the crawfish festival or the Rotary or Lions Fair, had their annual parades. I smiled when the cashier at the grocery store was friendly, asking...
Jun 03, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 14
A healthy weight loss and health plan that really works. "You don't become what you want, you become what you believe!" Hello everyone. Sidney and Barbara here today to talk to you about losing weight and getting healthy… all at the same time. Those of you who have followed my blog site for years have listened to how I have always struggled with weight gain. I once played Pickleball three days a week, racketball twice, and usually a softball tournament on the weekends. Very active, to say the le...
May 29, 2022•12 min
SEASON 3, EPISODE 13 PART II of MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE TO THE USS HOUSTON Greetings to everyone on this Memorial Day 2022. Sidney St. James, with you for the dramatic conclusion to my Memorial Day Tribute to the USS Houston in World War II. Before continuing where I left off, I should mention that today's idea came from my earlier podcast about Superheroes. Well, in that broadcast was a mention of Dr. Strange in the newest movie coming out. In that episode, I talked about not the magical powers of...
May 27, 2022•32 min•Season 3Ep. 13
What’s that? A radio is being broadcast across the entire ship. Not a man is moving as everyone has their ears listening closely to the announcement from President Franklin D. Roosevelt from radio signal coming in from CBS and NBC Radio. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT DECLARING WAR ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1941 AFTER JAPANESE EMPIRE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941 I rushed back up to the place I had landed my time machine, and was quickly lifted away until I found myself nestled i...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 12
SEASON 3 EPISODE 6 1375-1300 BC Samson and Delilah's Shocking Love Story From the Book of Judges in the Bible Hello everyone. Your host Sidney St. James with you today. I had been "clicking" up a storm on my novel No. 51, a murder mystery called "Murder in the Prairie Edge Museum," when suddenly, a thought hit me. I don't understand why this occurs, but I was way up in the present day in my hometown murder mystery when I thought of another loving relationship from way back in 1350 BC. I know… ho...
May 26, 2022•36 min•Season 3Ep. 6
A REPLAY: Memorial Day Tribute to Friendship & Patriotism 'Home Alive By ‘45’ Operation Magic Carpet 2021 Operation Magic Carpet was the most extensive combined air and sealift ever organized during wartime. Elmer A. Struss, my father, was an officer in the Navy, one of many assigned this task and helped bring back home millions of soldiers at the end of WWII. It was called… by all the servicemen and women as the scope expanded worldwide as “Home Alive By ’45!” My special presentation on thi...
May 13, 2022•35 min
Season 3 Episode 8 Who Really Shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater? Bam!!! The other shot heard around the world. The Civil War in America had just ended, and all the major newspapers around the North and South began printing their stories. However, when the dust cleared enough to see, John Wilkes Booth was designated the fall guy of this historical event. Hello everyone, Sidney St. James here with my podcast on writing the Abraham Lincoln Assassination Series several years ago. Some of you ...
May 09, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 8
