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Friday, November 25, 2011

Christmas Campfire Companion

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Available now, from Port Yonder Press: Christmas Campfire Companion , a collection of 14 Western-themed Christmas short stories by some of t...
Monday, November 21, 2011

KMN Books: Author Day

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Nov. 21- Get an update on my recent releases in all the genres I write in, and post questions if you like, at Karen Michelle Nutt 's Aut...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Murder and Intrigue in 5th Century Ireland

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Available now in ebook form from Publishing by Rebecca J. Vickery: The first of the Conor MacCormac Mysteries, The King's Avenger and Th...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Writers of the West

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I was thrilled to be interviewed by the very talented Jean Henry Mead on her blogsite "Writers of the West". I feel like I've ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

The Lonesome Brokeback Picture Show

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See if this story, written by Larry McMurtry, sounds familiar. Setting: The American West. Two young men begin a lifelong friendship. One...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Why We Never Watch THE MATRIX at My House

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One night in 1999 I got a phone call from my old friend and co-author David Allen. “Hey,” he said. “Have you seen that new movie , The Matri...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

My Personal West

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My thanks to Richard Prosch, who gave me a forum to talk about my views of the Mythic West at his website. He has posted several other essay...
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Troy D. Smith
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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