James D. Best

“A mine is a hole in the ground, owned by a liar.” Mark Twain I recently saw a college friend for the first time in decades. He see...

I recently watched The Founder with Michael Keaton. I enjoyed the film. It’s an interesting character study and does a good job of...

Bookbub is a free service that notifies you when books go on sale. Free to readers, that is. When authors run a discounted promotion, B...

I've written ten books and contributed to another five. Millions of words, all typed with two fingers. I would have learned to touch typ...

New review of Wanted II by the Western Fiction Review . This is a U.K. based website and it's great to get some overseas exposure. ...

In novels, a story arc usually refers to rhythm of a story from introduction, to big trouble, to resolution. Basically, the rise and fall of...

Book covers are a big deal. People really do judge a book by its cover. The Steve Dancy Tales always use black and white photos with o...

The trade paperback edition of Crossing the Animas is now available. You can buy it at Amazon here . You might be surprised by the ...

Crossing the Animas is available for the Kindle. The print format will along shortly. Center Point plans to publish the large print library...

Wanted II is now available for pre-order at Amazon . Again, the book includes a Steve Dancy short story. This was a fun one for me. Steve is...

Jenny's Revenge is now available in print , ebook , large print , and audio formats. Joe Formichella reads Jenny's Revenge ....

A few days ago, my editor sent me the edited version of Crossing the Animas and related files. I'm anxious to reviewed her revis...

The first eight days of 2017 have already slipped away. I've been distracted by family and fun. It seems the only way to slow down ti...

In a previous post I lamented our poor travel luck of late. The good news is that once we left the USA, all of our travel difficultie...

I read every book review. Can't help myself. I'm perverse. I even like to read bad reviews. Dumb, I know, but it's a five min...

I believe Mark Twain is the greatest western writer of all time. Not only did Tom and Huck live on the frontier, but Roughing It des...

Snake in the Grass A Steve Dancy Tale A lone wrangler with a fine herd of horses goes berserk in the middle of nowhere.  Steve D...

I read that railroad construction is all the rage in Western novels. I suppose Hell on Wheels spiked the popularity of trains, but I ...

I write novels. Seven and counting. (Plus six nonfiction books, if I include my ghost writing assignments.) I’ve previously written only on...

Historic U.S. Route 395 For my birthday we ran up from San Diego to Gardnerville, Nevada. We stopped overnight in Santa Clarita to pi...