James D. Best

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. ...

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...

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 ....

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

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

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

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

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...

The western fast draw setup is as well known as the title sequence for Gunsmoke. Two men face off in the street, settle their stance, flex t...

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

Chuck Jones created 9 Golden rules for the Road Runner cartoons . These famous rules insured that fans received exactly what they exp...

Some author’s dread poor  reviews from  readers. I like to hear what readers think and find I learn more from critical reviews. Besides, wh...

Honest westerns filled with dishonest characters. Speed bumps take readers out of the story. The final throes of revising Jenny’...

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

Mobridge, South Dakota Mobridge, South Dakota takes it name from the first railroad bridge to cross the Missouri. The town draws to...

An Editor on the Comstock Lode by Wells Drury Previously, I wrote that Mark Twain is my favorite Western writer . Twain actually ...

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

Last week I wrote about living without my handy Kindle. I relearned how to buy a paperback at the airport and life went on. Somethi...