James D. Best

The most frequent question I get at book events is how to sell more books. This is disconcerting because I want to talk about how to write ...

I was looking at my recent book sales and saw that a vast majority of them were e-books. Was the oft predicted demise of traditional books u...

Everyone knows the old axiom that people shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but do they also misjudge books by their title? I don’t k...

Are books becoming obsolete? Is a library the only place we’ll be able to see these odd antiquities? Will librarians admonish us “don...

Publishers Weekly has an article that estimates the number of sales required to reach a Top 5 ranking on Amazon. Something doesn’t loo...

A few weeks ago, The Shopkeeper has reached a milestone, so to speak. The novel was reviewed for the 100th time by an Amazon customer. On...

Sometimes we forget that American genre fiction is popular overseas—Westerns included. And why not? We might think of the Wild West as u...