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Jim Sanderson

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Born

in San Antonio, The United States

Website

https://www.jimsanderson-writer.com/

Genre

Mystery, Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Jim Crumley, Gordon Weaver, Mary Hood, Tom Franklin, Clay Reynolds

Member Since

September 2019

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I have always been nervous about claiming to be a writer. I can't depend upon writing to eat. So to eat, I teach. Students sometimes ask me if I am a "famous arthur." I know that I am not a famous arthur.

I have collected a lot labels. I started out as a short story writer, so I have three collections of short fiction. I also started writing essays because I thought that they were easy. So I have an essay collection. I was sort of a "shade tree" sociologist in this collection.

I won a contest for a literary novel about the southwestern U.S. When the novel came out, my editor listed it as a mystery. So I started writing mysteries and have a mystery series with the same characters running around in them. Brash Books as republished three of them ...more

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Average rating: 3.9 · 410 ratings · 34 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	El Camino del Rio: A Mystery 3.75 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Mordida (A Dolph Martinez Thriller Book 2) 3.96 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dolph's Team 4.38 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Safe Delivery 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GAMBLED DREAMS 4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing to Lose 3.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Contemporary Western Four-Pack by Jim Sanderson (Goodreads Author), Leo W. Banks (Goodreads Author), Phillip Thompson (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hill Country Property really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A West Texas Soapbox (Volume 2) (West Texas A & M University) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nevin’s History: A Novel of Texas 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I've heard that writers need to on all social media, have a blog, have a podcast, and preferably be famous.

My problem with a blog or any announcement is that I just don't believe I have that much to say to people. Who am I to tell folks anything? I don't want to post simplistic memes that I could download and post. And if I really start to think about something to say, I end up exhausting myself. Read more of this blog post »

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Please see TURTLE ON A POST: MEMOIR OF TEXAS STATE SENATOR CARL PARKER for my latest. Senator and raconteur Carl Parker dictated anecdotes to his wife Beverly. I organized these notes and edited them and revised and rewrote. Goodreads has yet to allow me to claim this book.

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