Way to go, Larry! Congrats!
Monday, December 5, 2011
Larry D. Sweazy wins Indiana Book Award
I'm pleased at the news that my pal Larry D. Sweazy's novel The Scorpion Trail has become the first Western ever to win the fiction prize in the Indiana Book Awards. If you haven't read his Josiah Wolfe stories, you're missing out on some good stuff. (Larry has a Spur Award hidden somewhere as well, no doubt quite inconspicuously.)
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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Thanks, Troy!
ReplyDeleteThis is a well-earned award. Larry's one of my favorite writers and I can't think of a more deserving book or writer. Well done, sir!
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