B J Holmes (Bryan or BJ to his friends) wrote westerns under his own name and also five pen-names: J William Allen, Ethan Wall, Charles Langley Hayes, Sean Kennedy and Jack Darby.Of his fifty books, eleven so far have been, or are being, re-issued as e-books. Alongside the Piccadilly entries (Reaper and Shatterhand series) publishers Robert Hale have issued his GUNSMOKE IN VEGAS as an e-book which is now available on Amazon under his J WILLIAM ALLEN nom-de-plume."GUNSMOKE IN VEGAS is the closest I ever got to the big screen," BJ said. "On its first publication a smidgeon of interest was shown from a relevant quarter in its movie potential but it soon dissipated. Anyway, readers can decide for themselves whether or not GUNSMOKE IN VEGAS would have made a good movie."The latest e-book issue is SHATTERHAND AND THE PEOPLE. "I'd never come across the term 'The People' before - either in novels or films - to describe the unified tribes," he said at the time. "Then, the week of the book's release we caught 'Dances with Wolves' at the local multiplex and, blow me down, dear old Kevin Costner used the term. I consoled myself with the notion that great minds think alike."Up-dates on the author can be found on the PICCADILLY PUBLISHING website while ADAM WRIGHT's BLACK HORSE WESTERN site carries an extended interview (including a not-very-complimentary caricature of BJ as an obnoxious sheriff, done of him by one of his students). Incidentally, the latter interview also reveals how, late in life, the author happened to become for a short time a "crossword guru" (as one newspaper hyperbolically called him) with a handful of books emerging under the Bloomsbury, Collin and A & C Black labels. "I was particularly proud of the crossword dictionary which, with the 2nd edition and my adding to it daily, had taken eleven years to complete - about the same time it took Samuel Johnson to finish his dictionary - but he had an army of helpers!"And next .... in the pipeline from Piccadilly......HEAD WEST, the first comprehensive collection of all the writer's western short stories published over a span of thirty years.