by Jim Jones | May 23, 2023 | Articles
Manuela Schneider is an author, a screenwriter/movie producer and a songwriter. Mostly, she is a force of nature and a natural-born storyteller. She is from Germany and has been fascinated with the American West for most of her life. When I was asked to review her...
by Jim Jones | May 24, 2022 | Articles
Rod Miller is an award-winning author and poet. People toss the phrase, “award-winning,” around so much that it can become meaningless, so let me give you a little context. Rod has won four Western Writers of America Spur Awards; he has won awards from the Western...
by Jim Jones | Apr 1, 2022 | Articles
There was a time (at least that’s what I’ve heard) that if you were on a record label as a musician or had a publisher as an author, they would handle all the marketing, publicity, promotion and such. All you had to do was decide which color M&Ms you didn’t want...
by Jim Jones | Feb 15, 2022 | Articles
One of the benefits of being a Western Storyteller…a songwriter and author…is that I get to hang out and become friends with other writers. I get to learn from them and sometimes, I get to collaborate with them. One of my good friends is the wonderful writer, Deanna...
by Jim Jones | Jan 5, 2021 | Articles
No Secret Too Small By Loretta Miles Tollefson Sometimes I think there must be a rule that says when you’re writing about history, you should make it as dry and monotonous as you possibly can. Provide names, dates and locations but don’t share anything that gives...
