Jake "Buddy" Saunders is an American author and businessman.
He co-authored A Voice and Bitter Weeping with Howard Waldrop, later expanded into the 1974 novel The Texas-Israeli War: 1999, as well as Time and Variance, with Waldrop and Steven Utley. His short story Back to the Stone Age was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1976.
He currently owns and operates Lone Star Comics, a chain of seven Texas comic book stores founded in 1977.