Big Jim Williams

One reader said Big Jim Williams, “Has a wonderful way of telling a story, makes you feel you are right there with all those cowboys.”

His latest book, “Jake Silverhorn’s Revenge,” set in Frontier Arizona, follows his successful “Cattle Drive” book (both High Noon Press), winner of the Western Fictioneers’ Peacemaker Award for Best First Novel.

His audio books are, “The Old West” (Sunset), and author/narrator, “Tall Tales of The Old West” (Americana).

His Western stories are in the anthologies, “Sundown Western Tales” (Sundown), “Luck of The Draw” (Wolf Creek), “Dead or Alive” and “Broken Promises” (La Frontera), Western Fictioneers’ Wolf Creek books, and, in magazines or online, Rope and Wire, Western Horseman, The Cardroom Poker News, Livestock (Texas) Weekly, American West, Sniplits, Shoot! and Short-Story.net.; non-Westerns in OverMyDeadBody, Orchard Press Mysteries, Suspense Magazine, and more.

Williams, a California broadcaster and ex-publicist, welcomes emails at

bigjimwilliams2@cox.net.