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...

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

The Author’s Academy is a subscription website dedicated to teaching “authors how to write, produce, and market their books successfu...

The Fictional Café has previewed the first chapter of Jenny’s Revenge , the fifth novel in the Steve Dancy series .  If you enjoy ...

Mike Shatzkin Mike Shatzkin has posted a discerning article about how print books are different than digital books. It’s common ...

I’ve contended that word of mouth is the greatest marketing tool available to authors. Word of mouth includes book clubs, online recommenda...

I self-published The Shopkeeper in 2007. It seems like a lifetime ago, but in indie-publishing terms, it was an eon. I stumbled into i...

Coming up with a good book title is difficult, at least for me. Ideally, you want the title that will grab a buyer’s attention in three or ...

I semi-retired early and went into consulting to forestall boredom and to help make ends meet.* I ended up consulting for a Boston direct m...

The Steve Dancy Box Set Many series authors issue box sets, including me. A box set includes multiple e-books presented as a collection...