James D. Best

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...

Orgainc? Now that's embarrassing.  A couple weeks ago, I went through the galley proof for The Return and found over twenty change...

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

Once upon a time, I feared red ink … now I look forward to it. The red ink means another set of professional eyes are helping me write ...

Goodreads has completed a survey of their members about how they discovered books. They published the results at the link below. Goodrea...

Wordpreneur has a regular feature called Peeps. These are short pieces about indie-authors and they were gracious enough to do an arti...

I’m making pre-editing revisions to my latest book . I want to share my goals for a final pass-through for any of my books. After I have t...

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

I love editors. The reason I love editors is they save me from embarrassment. I make errors and typos with punctuation and seem to miss ...

I’m reading a thriller from a big name author. It’s a bestseller published under a Simon & Schuster imprint. Yeah, I found a few typ...

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...

Frederick Faust was one of the most prolific writers of all time, publishing nearly thirty million words in his lifetime. Faust had more...

Huffington Post Books published an article titled " Bad Reviews Of Great Authors. "   When you get a bad review of your work, i...

Elmore Leonard In 2009, The Western Writers of America presented Elmore Leonard with their prestigious Owen Wister Award for lifetim...

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. Seneca (c. 5 BC-AD c. 65), Roman writer A friend of mine unintentionally ch...

I haven't read a Stephen King book in a couple decades.   11/22/63  reminded me why I used to read King’s books as soon as they were p...

I made a significant error when writing  Principled Action, Lessons from the Origins of the American Republic . I attributed a quote to Jame...

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.-- Steve Martin Writing a book is a adven...

In the olden days—like maybe four years ago—Kindle and Nook readers were fairly tolerant of formatting errors. The technology was brand span...

This is a fun posting on Buzz Feed. Some very good advice, as well.  Before you become too enamored with other authors' perspective on...