James D. Best

Center Point will publish a hard bound, large print version of Crossing the Animas , A Steve Dancy Tale . They’re a great group of pe...

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...

There have been some memorable fictional characters. Sherlock Holmes , James Bond , Hercule Poirot , and Harry Potter to name a few....

My last posting was about Hollywood remaking The Magnificent Seven , one of my favorite western movies. No sooner did it go to press ...

Hondo by Louis L'Amour In 1949, Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a Thousand Faces . Campbell studied myths and stories dow...

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

Scripts guidelines help storytelling. First Loony Tunes , now Pixar. The animated world has rules. Perhaps it's related to Walt Dis...

Kurt Vonnegut I'm collecting writing tips from famous author's. You can read them here . In this post, I'm adding Kurt Vo...

My favorite television program is Justified .  I don’t lament its demise because I watch TV programs on Netflix or Amazon Prime. I ...

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