James D. Best

The story of the greatest rivalry in American History.   Buy at Amazon

Grok Self-Portrait I wasn't a strong proponent of artificial intelligence until I asked Grok about my own work. Now, I'm a fan of AI...

  In a previous post I previewed a number of Old Haunts cover mock-ups. The one I selected wasn't among the initial alternatives. I sel...

  Interim Cover Old Haunts, A Steve Dancy Tale has entered the proofreading stage. The new Steve Dancy should be available in 4-6 weeks. Th...

A First-Order Disaster Story About an Atmospheric River It’s to his credit that he focuses his attention on the human element of the d...

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...

Honest westerns filled with dishonest characters. My new Steve Dancy book takes place in 1885, three years after Steve and Virginia ...

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 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 spent some time this morning with Steve Dancy. I didn’t write a lot of new material, but I did edit the last couple of chapters I’d writt...

Amazon has an under-publicized program called Matchbook. By enrolling in this program, a publisher can offer a Kindle book at a steep disco...

It was a cold and windy night. Laura Borealis has published a blog article on TheTen Worst Story Openings. As I've mentioned pre...

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...

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny da...

Friday, I signed the final approval forms for The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale . Whew! The Return by James D. Best I wish th...

Novel Posters has created posters from the text of famous novels. This one is for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is not only ...

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

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

Working Cover I'm about to send The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale to my editor. One step closer to publishing, but still a ways to g...

I don't write scary novels, but I read them. Done right, they can give you an adrenalin rush while your partner snores beside you. i...