Jim Jones – Author, Musician, Performer

Jim Jones is a multi-award winning singer/songwriter/performer, author, and film-maker. He has won three Western Heritage Wrangler Awards, three Western Writers of America Spur Awards for Best Western Song, the International Western Music Association 2019 Song of the Year, and the Will Rogers Medallion Awards 2025 Gold Medallion for Cowboy Songwriting, among others.

His Western novels, published by Speaking Volumes Press, include the Jared Delaney series- Rustler’s Moon, Colorado Moon, Waning Moon, Halo Moon, and Hunter’s Moon. He has a spin-off series from the Jared Delaney series that includes The Big Empty (2016) and The Lights of Cimarron (2019). His short story, “Go On,” which is included in the anthology, Through Western Storms, published in 2024, edited by Richard Prosch, won the Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Medallion 2025 for Western Short Story. Jim also has written a children’s series, Bolo the Brave, which includes three separate stories and was published in the Spring of 2025 by Speaking Volumes Press.

Jim’s first novel, Rustler’s Moon, has been adapted as a screenplay, “Rustler’s Moon: Pick a Side.” He and his creative partner, Elizabeth Schrum of Digital Llama Media, are developing it as the pilot episode for a streaming series that will include adaptations of his four additional books in the Jared Delaney/Moon series.

Jim is also producing a historical documentary with creative partners Randy Huston and Jake Stetler. The documentary is called “It’s a Cowboy I Will Be,” named for his award-winning song about a young Scottish Drover who is forced to leave his home in the late 1800s and travels to America to become a cowboy.