 With the sale of the Lone Star comic book store chain in 2013, Mr. Saunders and his family now operate the online Lone Star Comics, www.mycomicshop.com.As a writer, he co-authored "A Voice and Bitter Weeping" with Howard Waldrop, later expanded into the 1974 novel "", as well as "Time and Variance", with Waldrop and Steven Utley.Saunders' story "Back to the Stone Age'" was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1976.