Publications
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Dolph's Team (A Jerri Johnson/Dolph Martinez mystery), 2011 Inkbrush Press
Nearer James Lee Burke than Joe Lansdale, Sanderson's Dolph’s Team is part border-town mystery and part road trip, reminiscent of Lonesome Dove. Dolph's crew doesn't always follow the letter of the law in a world where pre-paid funerals are no joke. As Dolph says, "once you give up decency and honesty," you're on your own, and all of the beer-guzzling and bull-shooting won't protect his team from the harsh reality of modern Texas.
Jennifer Ravey, thepickygirl.com
Dolph's Team, about a group of aging friends from both sides of the law investigating the (seemingly) cut-and-dried murder of a friend, is the fourth Sanderson mystery. He's also an accomplished short story writer, and many of the characters in the new novel also appear both in his other mysteries and his most recent story collection “Faded Love.” A recurring theme is the almosts of life, or, as writer-turned-bug-exterminator Walter tells the reader: “the importance of what could have happened.” Joe O'Connell, San Antonio Express and News, Jan. 29, 2012 full article Faded Love, 2010 Inkbrush Press
Finalist for 2010 Jesse Jones award for best book of fiction about Texas or by a Texan, sponsored by Texas Institute of Letters
"Sanderson, who has carved out a 30-year career exploring human nature while publishing in the trenches of university and small literary presses, leaves us to ponder if all of the striving is worth it. Boone, the screenwriter, perhaps offers the book's definitive answer: 'He went for the beauty.' So does Sanderson in these well-crafted tales." Joe O'Connell, Austin American Statesman, Nov. 14, 2010 Some Ways of Writing/A Writers' Way: A Supplemental Guide to Writing for Composition and Sophomore Literature, 2007 Kendall/Hunt
Written for Lamar University's composition program
Nevin's History, A Novel of Texas, 2004 Texas Tech University Press
"A delightful and instructive panorama of South Texas's late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century past. . . .An epic, exciting story."--Tom Pilkington, Tarleton State University
La Mordida, 2002 (available soon as an e-book) University of New Mexico Press
"Barren indeed. And dry. And murderous. West Texans will enjoy La Mordida."--West Texas Historical Association Yearbook
Safe Delivery, 2000 (available soon as an e-book) University of New Mexico Press
finalist for the Violet Crown Award, 2000 "Sanderson offers a unique view of love, border wars, bail jumping, and life in San Antonio . . . an intriguing mystery plot blended with a realistic and slightly racy love affair will convince readers that this novel is one worth reading and Sanderson's writing career is one worth following." --Review of Texas Books
El Camino Del Rio, 1998 (available soon as an e-book) University of New Mexico Press
Winner Frank Waters Award, 1997 "Makes the gritty, thankless landscape of the border come alive, from the relentless heat to the failed hopes."--Paul Skenazy, Washington Post Book World
A West Texas Soapbox, 1998 Texas A&M University Press
"'I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim.' . . . I'm not sure if I got these slogans from Emerson or from Reebok athletic shoe commercials. Emerson wrote some convoluted essays but some great one-liners."—Jim Sanderson Semi-Private Rooms, 1994 Pig Iron Press
Winner of the Kenneth Patchen Prize for fiction, 1992
Short Stories, Articles, and Essays in Lone Star: From the Red River to the Rio Grand-100 Years of Texas Literature, Texas Bound III, Concho River Review, Dark Horse, Phoebe, New Growth I & II, Houston Chronicle, Journal of American Culture, Amarillo Bay, Literature/Film Quarterly, High Plains Review, Pleiades, Early American Literature, North Atlantic Review, Portland Review, Chariton Review, New Mexico Humanities Review, descant, Sports Literate, Post Script, and others.
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