A Venture into the Night: Some Notes on Violent Fiction | May 2014 FSG Work in Progress (also available as a pdf)

Songs of 1966 That Make Me Wish I Could Sing (pdf) | April 2014 FSG Book Keeping

Our House | Appeared in Texas Monthly, June 2010 (also available as a pdf)

Foreword for Youth Voices in Ink, a publication of Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Inc. | Spring 2008

Seven Rules for Writing Historical Fiction | March 2006

Aunt Sister | Appeared in May 2004 issue of Texas Monthly
(also available on TexasMonthly.com)

Crossing Over | Appeared in Barton Springs Eternal 

Dad vs. the Dress Code | Appeared in August 2004 issue of Texas Monthly
(also available on TexasMonthly.com)

Remembering Jackie Onassis | Appeared in Austin-American Statesman, May 1994

Sam Houston and Eliza Allen: The Marriage and the Mystery | Appeared in July 1990 issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly 

Saturday Morning Animal Pancakes | From Stirring Prose: Cooking with Texas Authors by Deborah Douglas, Texas A&M University Press