James D. Best

Rod Pennington writes that "Sunday's Oscars ceremony takes place during one of the gloomiest times for the film industry in rec...

Yesterday my wife and I left Paris for Omaha. That’s not a sentence most people would enjoy writing, but we’ve been gone a month a...

                    "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a P...

I like westerns and I like Quentin Tarantino films, so I had high expectation when I rented The Hateful Eight . Bummer. It's not ...

My wife's photo of Machu Picchu I like traveling to places my wife and I both enjoy. She loves history and art, while I prefer to s...

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

Me striking a Steve Dancy pose. Recently I changed my Facebook profile picture to me as a youngster dressed up in my new chaps. The...

Still From John Ford's Stagecoach In the Old West, stage travel took patience and stamina. Wells Fargo published a set of rules f...

Audio is now the fastest growing format for books. Most people walk around with a smart phone, tablet, iPad, or ebook reader, all of wh...

A book is always a great gift … especially if you take the time to match the recipient’s taste in fiction or nonfiction. Suddenly, ...

I bounce around the internet each morning after checking email. I scan a lot of articles, but rarely get by the first few paragraphs. M...

Whispersync is an Amazon feature that allows you to switch between an ebook version and an audiobook of the same title. It’s a pretty...

Honest westerns filled with dishonest characters. My son reads magazines and listens to books. He doesn’t have a lot of time for...

Pioneer Courage Park, Omaha Nebraska Amy Athey McDonald has published an article in Yale News titled: On gunfights, U.S. colonialism, ...

The best gift is a vacation … and the least expensive vacation is a book. A novel effortlessly transports the reader to another place and t...

Orwell's Rules 35 cents for a Masterpiece Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to see...

The above names are fictional. Make-believe people known the world over. How does a branded character come about? They must be di...

Fame is but 70,000 words away Recently I talked with an aspiring writer who felt unsure about her first novel. She asked how I starte...