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POEM
IN MEMORY OF NANCY KNETSCH, 1966, Johnson City Record-Courier.

PUBLISHED NOVELS
ROCK CRITIC MURDERS, 1989, Penguin USA (hardcover).
TOUGH BABY, 1990, Penguin USA (hardcover).
BOILED IN CONCRETE, 1992, Penguin USA (hardcover)

BOOK INTRODUCTIONS:
DELIVER ME FROM DALLAS, Charles Willeford, Dennis McMillan Publications 2000; introduction by Jesse Sublett.

PUBLISHED NOVELS, SMALL PRESS
THE TEFLON BABE, 1992, Gryphon Publications (pb).
I LOVE MY GUN, 1993, Gryphon Publications (pb).
THE SOFT SPOT, 1998, Gryphon Publications (pb).
DEADER THAN HELL, 1999, Gryphon Publications (pb).

PUBLISHED NONFICTION BOOKS
History of the Texas Turnpike Authority, March 1995, State of Texas

PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES
The Songwriter, 1994 in Shock Rock II, Pocket Books
Martin Fender and the Hardboiled Highway, 1984 Austin Chronicle
Martin Fender and the Flattop Kid, 1985 Austin Chronicle
The Easiest Money I Ever Made, 1995 Detective Story Magazine
Gore Galore, 1992 Detective Story Magazine
I Am the City, 1990 Hardboiled
I Got a Gun & Its Name is I.O.U., 1991 Detective Story Magazine

SELECTED MAGAZINE FEATURES
Rock ‘n Roll Gothic, August 26, 2001 New York Times Magazine
Doing Right By a Master of Pulp Fiction, June 18, 2000 New York Times
Stayin’ Alive, Dec. 1999 Texas Monthly
Wild Town, Noir Novelist/Screenwriter Jim Thompson’s Fort Worth Years, Nov. 1999 Texas Monthly
John Wesley Hardin, The Fortysomething Killer, Austin Chronicle 1995
Charlie Siringo: Cowboy, Author, Detective, Austin Chronicle 1994
One of the Great Ones: How I Discovered a Lost Charles Willeford Novel, Austin Chronicle 1998
They Wired the West, Texas Monthly internet edition 1998
When a Loved One is Murdered, Texas Monthly July 2002 [a longer, more detailed account of the murder of my girlfriend in 1976 by a serial killer]

FILM AND TELEVISION

Vietnam veterans have praised Jesse’s “Combat From the Cockpit” as “the best thing ever done” on the air war in Vietnam. His “Admirals: High Noon in the Pacific,” received a gold medal at the Houston Independent Film Festival. "The Killer Storm" received a gold medal at the 2000 New York Film Festival.

Jesse’s adaptation of the long-running play, In the West, was filmed and released in 1998 under the title Deep in the Heart (of Texas). He has written many other screenplays.

NONFICTION TELEVISION CREDITS

Associate Producer, Executive Story Editor, Writer, Composer:
ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WEST, Brazos Productions (US News Video/Disney Channel), air date February—March ‘94. Sole credit as writer: Texas Cowboys and the Trail Drives. Co-writer: Frontier Justice, Scouts in the Wilderness, Pioneers and the Promised Land. I also wrote the treatments, promo reel and promotional materials used to sell the series, collected traditional music for the scores of the episodes, composed original ballads for the series, and wrote copy for print ads. Narrated by Kris Kristofferson, with additional celebrity voices.

Executive Story Editor, Writer, Music Director:
FOREVER WILD: The Preservation of America, Steve Michelson Productions (Disney Channel). Episodes on The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, The Everglades, The Adirondacks, Cape Cod and The Offshore Islands. Features historical consultant Roderick Frazier Nash and various star narrators.

Writer:
COMBAT AT SEA, Brazos Productions (US News Video/Arts & Entertainment). Episodes: Admirals, Battleships, Carrier Victory, and Pacific Heroes of World War II.

Writer:
AIR COMBAT 2, Perpetual Motion Films (US News Video/Arts & Entertainment), air date Spring ‘93. Episodes: Legends of the Air; Vietnam: Combat from the Cockpit, Pilots of Desert Storm, The Ace Factor, and MiG vs. America.

Writer:
MASTERS OF WAR, Perpetual Motion Films (US News/Arts & Entertainment), air date Spring ‘94. Episode: Blunder and Bravery: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. (Note: for the format of this series, the producers copied (with appreciation) the style of The Admirals, my award-winning episode of Combat At Sea.

Writer:
BIOGRAPHY, Perpetual Motion Films (US News/Arts & Entertainment), air date Spring ‘95. Episode: Attila the Hun.

Writer:
THE GREAT SHIPS, Perpetual Motion Films (Non-Fiction Films/The History Channel), Episodes: The Ocean Liners , The Ironclads, The Battleships, Armament, The Salvage Ships, The Power Racers.

Independent Producer:
TEXAS ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, a syndicated weekly 30-minute news magazine series broadcast on 24 affiliates throughout the state of Texas. Produced segments on Flaco Jimenez, Brave Combo, Sam Hurt, Eva Ybarra y Su Conjunto, Mance Lipscomb, David (“The Fat Man”) Sanger, Doug Sahm, Larry McMurtry’s Evening Star, and others.

Writer:
HISTORY UNDERCOVER: AIR AMERICA (History Channel): the story of the CIA’s secret airline, covering US SE Asia involvement from the late Thirties through Vietnam.

Writer:
THE KILLER STORM (History Channel): the unnamed 1991 so-called "perfect storm" which ravaged the entire US Atlantic seaboard in October 1991; also the subject of Sebastian Junger's book and the movie, titled The Perfect Storm. Focusing on the meteorological phenomena, the emergency management agencies, Coast Guard, Weather Bureau, Air National Guard, fishing fleets, etc., whose lives were caught up in the storm, this account is by far the most factual one. Winner of New York Film Festival gold medal.

Writer:
THE ROYAL NAVY: THE KING'S SHIPS (History Channel): part one of a four hour history of Britain's Royal Navy, focusing on the early Britain, the sixteenth century, Henry VIII's navy and the Spanish Armada battle, when Britain's first "finest hour" starred Queen Elizabeth I's superheroes, Sir Francis Drake & Sir John Hawkins. Air Date October 2002.

Writer:
FLY PAST: A WING AND A PRAYER: (History Channel): episode three of a series on the history of flight. This episode focuses on the history of aeronautical engineers' efforts to build a practical flying wing. Jack Northrop's B-35/YB-49 flying wing came closest to production during World War II and the early postwar years, but Nazi rivals the Horten brothers were close on his heels. The Northrop program was abruptly cancelled in 1949, so America's long range nuclear bomber of choice became the humongous Convair B-36, the so-called "Big Stick." Then, in the late 80's, Northrop won the contract to produce the B-2 Stealth bomber, vindicating the vision and genius of the company's namesake.

Writer:
MILITARY JUSTICE: Series on the history of the military justice system, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Episodes include The Houston Mutiny Riot of 1917, The Execution of Private Eddie Slovik, and the Trial of Lt. Calley. [Unfortunately, this series was cancelled after 9/11/01. The History Channel people decided they didn’t want to produce anything that might make the US military look bad. Whatever.]

FILM CREDITS

Screenwriter:
DEEP IN THE HEART (Of TEXAS) (1998) (Adapted from play). Brazos Productions, dir. Stephen Purvis, starring Mark Parello. World Premiere at Austin Heart of Film Festival, October 1996.

Music Consultant:
THE TRAVELLER (1996), October Films, dir. Jack Green, starring Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies.