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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Some thoughts about Trayvon, Zimmerman, and Race in Our America

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Everyone in America knows by now about the situation in Florida, and the shooting of Trayvon Martin. I've been having a running conversa...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

2012 Spur Award Winners Announced

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Western Writers of America today announced the winners and finalists of this year's Spur Awards... A lot of my friends are on this list,...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Civil War Fiction

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Here we are, right in the midst of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. It seems that I have written as many stories set during that conflict as ...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Jean Giraud, aka Moebius- Rest in Peace, maestro.

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Sad news today- internationally renowned French comics artist Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, has passed away in Paris at the age of 73, after a l...
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Crime novel CROSS ROAD BLUES now available on kindle

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Perfect Crime Books has made my blues-detective novel Cross Road Blues available for the kindle: Click HERE For a review of the book by be...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Free this week: "The Blackwell Claim"

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My western ebook short story "The Blackwell Claim" is available for free until March 10 at THIS SITE  (under the price you will se...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Good Rebel Soil: The Champ Ferguson Story

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My novel about notorious Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson, first published a decade ago, is being released in a new edition by Western T...
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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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