James D. Best

Instead of writing and blogging, I've been moving. What a pain. It's been twenty-two years since our last move and I forgot how hard...

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...

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...

One thing. Just one thing. The Telegraph in London reports that “ Scientists find secret to writing a best-selling novel .” Boy, was I ...

We’re putting the finishing touches on our new home in Omaha. We bought a 1948 ranch style house that needed major updating.  In our last t...

I was reading BuzzFeed’s  “ 10 Lovable Things About Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores ,” when I saw a photo that tugged my memory back to my ...

Charlie Jane Anders wrote a piece for io9 about How to Write Descriptive Passages Without Boring the Reader or Yourself . Her article inclu...

Murder mystery fans like to figure out whodunit. It’s why the genre is fun, and enthusiasts hate it when the author rigs the game. No und...