Nonfiction
Stage Left: The Development of the American Social Drama in the Thirties.
Troy, New York: The Whitston
Press, 1986.
One Hundred Years of Heroes: The Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1995.
Twenty Questions: Answers for the Aspiring Writer. Dallas: Browder Springs Press, 1998.
[With Hunter Lundy] Let Us Prey. Columbus, Mississippi: Genesis Press, 1999.
Of Snakes and Sex and Playing in the Rain: Random Thoughts on Things Harmful to Your Health. Houston: Stone River Press, 2007.
A Cow Can Moo: The Irony of the Artistic Lie: Richardson, TX: UT Dallas, 2004.v
Fiction
The Vigil. New York: St. Martin's Press/Richard Marek, 1986; London: Robert Hale, 1986; Tokyo: Shinchosha, Inc., 1989; rpt. Dallas: SMU Press, Southwest Life and Letters Series, 1988; rpt. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2001.
Agatite. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986; Tokyo: Shinchosha, Inc., 1995; New York: rpt. [as Rage] Signet, 1994.
Franklin’s Crossing. New York: Dutton, 1992; Signet, 1993.
Players. New York: Carroll and Graf , 1997; Pinnacle 1998.
Monuments. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2000.
The Tentmaker. New York: Penguin/Putnam/Berkley, 2002.
Ars Poetica. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2003.
Threading the Needle. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2003.
Sandhill County Lines. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007.
Vox Populi: A Novel of the Common Man. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2013.