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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Civil War Vampires -and not the sparkly kind!

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THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS My horror short story "The Blood of Patriots" is now available as an ebook:  Link to Amazon listing  Desc...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

Excerpt from Cross Road Blues

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I've decided to post the first chapter of my crime novel Cross Road Blues to give folks a taste. The book has received praise from seve...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Larry D. Sweazy wins Indiana Book Award

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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