The reference staff at the Manhattan Public library, at their website "Little Apple Bookworm", just did an article about the Western genre. I was quite honored to have my novel Bound for the Promise-Land included in their list of recommended western novels, right there with several of my friends and with people -Elmore Leonard, Charles Portis, and Jack Shaefer -who are icons in the field. Never thought I'd see my name in such august company (and here it is only January.)
It's a nice article, check it out! http://bit.ly/z2ulAC
And if you want to check out the book in question, in paper or ebook: http://amzn.to/xaIIfw http://amzn.to/wdSACK
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Manhattan Public Library's article about Classic Westerns
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. 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 and in 2017 for the short story "Odell's Bones" (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently a history professor at Tennessee Tech.
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