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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

New Thriller ebook short

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My new crime story "All Great Neptune's Ocean," an ebook short, is now available- you can read a sample at smashwords.com. ...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

New Interview at Western Fictioneers

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Many thanks to the hardworking LJ Washburn for posting this interview at the Western Fictioneers blogsite. The photo, btw, is me in Old West...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Great new book from pulp reprint masters Black Dog Books

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Tom Roberts' great imprint Black Dog Books has released an excellent new collection, Dead Man's Brand . It contains the western shor...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

New interview is up

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I have an interview up, mostly about my crime fiction, on the website of author Nigel Bird: http://bit.ly/q9fjcn Bird's site, Sea Mino...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

The Traditional West

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In the early spring of 2010 several western writers came up with the idea of establishing a new writers' organization devoted exclus...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

When Men Ride Together: Two Very Different Views of The Wild Bunch

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1969: It was the year mankind took a giant step forward with the lunar landing, and it marked the inauguration of Nixon (which, some may ar...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Blackwell's Run

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The latest installment in my series of Blackwell Western short stories from Western Trail Blazer is available now.     http://www.smashwor...
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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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