Three years ago Western Fictioneers instituted the Peacemaker Awards, to honor the best western literature of the year in three categories: short fiction, novels, and first novel.
A panel of judges selects the top five entrants in each category, from whom a winner is selected. Last year there were actually seven finalists for best short story, as there were two ties. So in our first two years, there have been an even dozen nominees (this year's finalists will be announced in April.)
We thought it would be nice if readers could actually have access to all those stories -the authors and their publishers graciously allowed us to include their works in a series of short anthologies. Each collection has four stories, and can be purchased as a 99 cent ebook. You just can't beat that.
Check them out now- these are some great tales of the Old West, by some of the best writers in the genre today.
Get 'em here:
Volume One
Volume Two
Volume Three
Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Peacemakers! Read them all!
Labels:
award winners,
short stories,
westerns
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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