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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Of Dental Drills and Starship Hobos

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Two of my short stories have just been released as ebook shorts: "And Naked We Leave" and "Now Spit." Both were written ...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Western Short Story Collections

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The short story is my favorite prose medium to read and to write. There's something about getting right to the point, and making a hard ...
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Ladies Love Outlaws

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To quote that great troubadour Waylon Jennings: "Ladies love outlaws  Like babies love stray dogs.  Ladies touch babies like a bank...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Review for Bound for the Promise-Land

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I just became aware of this great review for my novel Bound for the Promise-Land , at the blog of author Kae Cheatham.... check it out. clic...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Manhattan Public Library's article about Classic Westerns

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The reference staff at the Manhattan Public library, at their website "Little Apple Bookworm", just did an article about the Weste...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Vote for RIDING TO SUNDOWN in the P & E Poll

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My Western novel Riding to Sundown is one of the books being considered for the Preditors and Editors online poll. If you liked said book, ...
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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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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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