James D. Best

The large print edition of The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale became available in March. Center Point Publishing has released all four Steve D...

A book review of The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale appears in the February issue of Roundup Magazine —a publication of Westerns Writers of Am...

Jennifer Cody Epstein published, “10 Rules for Rewriting History” at Writer Unboxed .  As a historical writer, I found the article help...

I haven't written too many posts lately because I've been busy with some really important stuff. My daughter and her kids have been ...

Steve Dancy has had a rocky romantic life in the first three novels. His mother pushed him to marry a young lady who would enhance the fa...

A few days ago, I wrote a disparaging post about Western mash-ups. Since I’m not into weird Westerns, I was unaware that many Western mash-...

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 ...

As of this morning, Amazon is offering The Return, A Steve Dancy Tale in print and Kindle formats. The hardcover large print edition i...

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

Book cover design is an art ...and I am not an artist. At least, not a visual artist. Previously, I posted a mock-up of the book cover for ...

I was reading Writer Unboxed and I saw an article by Leanne Shirtliffe on oxymorons used by writers. One was finished draft . That caught ...

My brother and sister and their spouses spent the week with us in San Diego. We talked, surfed, visited museums, dined out, cooked in, and...

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...

Today is a fresh start.A whole new year. Three hundred and sixty five days to write and enjoy life. Maybe I have that backward. My New Ye...