James D. Best

My wife and I are about to return to Omaha from San Diego. Darn, where did the time go? I’m going to miss friends and family, surfing...

“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...

My kids called to find out what I wanted for Father’s Day. When I asked for a gift card from Amazon, they said that would be impersonal....

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...

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

Winter in Pacific Beach Winter in Nebraska We spend the winters in San Diego. When we called Arizona home, San Diego served as our ...

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...

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

I was never a fan of signing cowboys. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and lesser lights were too goody two-shoes for me. I categorize heroes as w...

I watched the final episode of Justified last night. A little tardy you might think. Not to my way of thinking. I never watch any TV ...

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 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...