A note for interested readers:EL CAMINO DEL Rio has some related novels and is part of a series. Brash Books will re-publish LA MORDIDA in 2018. It is the sequel, taking place in the Big Bend region of Texas, and it brings together Dolph and Jerri Johnson, a female bail bonds “person” and bounty hunter struggling to stay female in a male world. Pepper and Sister Quinn also return. If you can find the out-of-print SAFE DELIVERY, taking place in a historically haunted San Antonio, you will be introduced to Jerri Johnson, Texas Ranger Joe Parr, and Vincent Fuentes. DOLPH’S TEAM from Lamar Literary Press brings together Jerri, Dolph, Pooter, and other characters from the series in a newer, changing San Antonio and is the latest in the Dolph/Jerri series. https://youtu.be/c4wWADMEnKkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wwqeVFdcHEBio: Jim SandersonIn the thirty years that Jim Sanderson has been writing seriously, he has been given many labels. He went from being an "aspiring writer" to a "working class, Texas" writer when he won the Kenneth Patchen Prize (92) and had his short story collection, SEMI-PRIVATE ROOMS, published (Pig Iron Press, 1995). With the publication of his essay collection, A WEST TEXAS SOAPBOX (1998, Texas A & M Press), he became a Texas humorist and essayist. When he won the 1997 Frank Waters Prize (given for the best novel about the southwest), he was a new "rural Southwestern literary writer." When the novel that won that prize, EL CAMINO DEL RIO (University of New Mexico Press, 1998) came out with his editor's label as a "mystery" and was subsequently reviewed in the Washington Post and New York Times as a mystery, he became a mystery writer. With the University of New Mexico Press's publication of two more novels, SAFE DELIVERY (2000, Violet Crown Award finalist) and LA MORDIDA (2002), he became a "literary mystery writer." With the publication of NEVIN'S HISTORY (Texas Tech University Press, 2004), he became a "historical writer" or a "Western writer. With FADED LOVE (Ink Brush Press, 2010), he returned to being a short story writer and was honored by being a finalist for the 2010 Jesse Jones Award for the best book-length fiction by a Texan or about Texas, sponsored by the Texas Institute of Letters. So Sanderson lets others choose his labels. DOLPH'S TEAM (Ink Brush Press, 2011) is another in his literary-mystery series. TRASHY BEHAVIOR (Lamar University Press, 2013) is a collection of literary short stories. NOTHING TO LOSE (TCU Press, 2014) is a darkly comic literary mystery. And NOTHING TO LOSE's prequel, HILL COUNTRY PROPERTY (Livingston Press, 2015), is a "historical" novel about the 1970s. In 2016, Brash Books (a unique and innovative publisher) re-published EL CAMINO DEL RIO.In addition Sanderson has published over eighty short stories, essays, and articles. Most notably "Bankers" won the 2012 Texas Institute of Letters' Kay Cattarulla Award for the best short story about Texas or by a Texas Writer. For a living Sanderson teaches fiction writing and American literature at Lamar University, where he now serves as chair of the Department of English and Modern Language.