James D. Best

Western fiction has been hugely popular for almost two hundred years. Not only were Westerns popular in the United States, but the w...

I love time travel. We’ve all experienced time travel whenever we’ve opened a book and been transported to another place and time....

The Washington Post has an article on “ The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction .” Many critics and readers focus on th...

Curiosity.com published a list of writing tips from Mark Twain. Now, Twain never actually published a list, but his letters provide...

Dead people publish new books all the time. Some of these books are unfinished manuscripts. Others are ghostwritten from scratch to take ad...

Many seem to believe if they just got a proper set of instructions, they could be a good writer. Many famous writers like Mark Twain, Georg...

I was unaware that my favorite library once banned a book by my favorite author. In 1885, the Concord Free Public Library banned The Advent...

Mark Twain didn't like James Fenimore Cooper’s writing. Wait, that was far too mild of a sentence. In his article “Fenimore Cooper'...

Mark Twain as a young man Mark Twain is one of my favorite Western authors. Whenever I tell someone that, their immediate reaction ...

I guess it would be more accurate to say Jane Austen is on the money. I’m proud of her since she didn’t make a fortune with her writing whi...

Mark Twain in Virginia City by Andy Thomas My favorite Western writer is Mark Twain. Owen Wister is second. These are probably not name...

Snobs come in every variety At Booktrust, Matt Haig started a cross-pond rhubarb with a post belittling literary snobs. Haig's...