Books
- Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles
- A Man Named Baskerville
- Man in the Middle
- In My Memory Locked
- Stranger Son
- Hagar’s Mother
- Bridge Daughter
- Edward Teller Dreams of Barbecuing People
- A Concordance of One’s Life (stories)
- Everywhere Man (novella) (First chapter on video)
Interactive Fiction
Short stories & excerpts
- “Roast” (from Edward Teller Dreams of Barbecuing People) – The Tusk
- “The Last Man in San Francisco” – Bang Out
- “Inside the Footnote” – Confrontation
- “Cooling Off” – Bang Out
- “The Obituarist” – North American Review
- “At The White Sands Motel, 1956” – The Erotic Review
- “Greenly I Fell” – Cosmopsis
- “A Lifted Idea” – Switchback (listen to reading by Greg Poulos)
- “Of Potential” – SmokeLong Quarterly
- “A Concordance of One’s Life” – Watchword
- “Some of the Things He Thought That Year” – Transfer
- “Gently, as Loud as You Can” – Red Wheelbarrow
Essays & articles
- “Sherlock Holmes: The enduring allure of history’s greatest detective” – Mystery & Suspense Magazine
- “Kindle Scout in Memoriam” – Hidden Gems
- “This Shit Ain’t Ever Going to Work” – The Tusk
- “Origins of The Obituarist“ – North American Review
- “Taylor & Redding” – We Still Like
- “C. Bobby & The Owl Tree” – Instant City
- “A Question for Dangerous Times” – The Loins Mouth
- “Z is for Zebra” – Instant City
- Always Be Publishing (defunct)
Interviews
- Author Q&A: Jim Nelson at FanFiAddict
- In My Memory Locked: SPSFC Interview with Jim Nelson at Queen’s Book Asylum
- Interview with Jeff Rutherford of the Reading and Writing Podcast
- Interview #2 with Sarah Meckler of GSMC Book Review
- Interview with Sarah Meckler of GSMC Book Review podcast
- Q&A at Jim Jackson’s My Two Cents Worth
- Interview with Katie O’Rourke at Today’s Author about Bridge Daughter
- Interview with Jeanz Book Read ‘n’ Review about Bridge Daughter
- “Looking Ahead”, Charity Yoro
- “Jim Nelson: Orange Juice From the Water Fountain”, Nicole McFeely
- “The Rumpus Interview with Jim Nelson”, Nicole McFeely
- “Jim Nelson: The Seeds of Everywhere Man”
- “The Write Stuff: Jim Nelson on Being Bold and Risking Real Failure”, Evan Karp
- “Smoking with Jim Nelson”, SmokeLong Quarterly
Awards & nominations
- Interactive Fiction Competition 2024: Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe (4th place)
- 2022 XYZZY Awards: Winner, According to Cain, Best Game and Best Implementation. (Nominated for Best Writing, Best Story, and Best Puzzles.)
- 2023 Interactive Fiction Top 50: According to Cain (#21)
- 2022 IFDB Awards: According to Cain, Outstanding Game of the Year (Player’s Choice) & Outstanding Game Over Two Hours (both Player’s and Author’s Choice)
- Interactive Fiction Competition 2022: According to Cain (6th place; 1st place for Miss Congeniality)
- Kindle Scout Winner (Bridge Daughter)
- Leo Litwak Award in Short Fiction
- Clark College Fiction Prize (First Place)
- Red Wheelbarrow Fiction Award (First Place)
- Webby Award nomination
Mentions
- The Creative Process #36: “A Guide to Commissioning Art”
- Boston Globe: “There’s a new chapter for private eye Sam Spade, and Clive Owen’s on the case”
- Don Herron’s Up and Down These Mean Streets: “On the Mean Streets with Fritz and Sam” and “Hammett: A Parable for Valentine”
- The New York Times Watching: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (“Read After You Watch”)
- Bloomberg: “When Finance is a Character in a Novel”
- Publishers Weekly: Review of Bridge Daughter
- The Brook Reading Podcast: “Persuasion – Volume One”
- KQED Arts & Culture: “Who is Everywhere Man?”