James D. Best

Honest Westerns. Filled with Dishonest Characters We've selected our book cover for No Peace. We chose this one out of a set of six...

No Peace is one step closer to publication. I have used the same editor for eleven books, and once again, I'm beholden to her f...

Some people are visual. I'm not one of them. But I appreciate good design, even if I'm incapable of drawing a straight line with a r...

Still from The Great Train Robbery The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale  partly takes place in New Jersey. Oh yeah, and Thomas Edison is a ...

Bandits' Roost, Photograph by Jacob Riis, 1887 New York City gangs were notorious. This historic photograph appealed to me becaus...

I’m currently going through the galley proof for The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale . In my supposedly perfect manuscript,  I've  already ...

The spine is the most undervalued aspect of book design. This is especially true today, when so many indie-books only publish elect...

February, 27, 1860 The Shut Mouth Society is a contemporary thriller about a conspiracy that goes back to Abraham Lincoln. The nove...

Robert Peecher is a journalist and author of  the Jackson Speed Memoirs . He has posted a blog article about indie-publishing and incl...

I just spent a week writing and surfing in San Diego. The writing went well, the surfing not so much. The weather was crappy for three day...