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Friday, April 27, 2012

A Writer's Life

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Today I was interviewed at A Writer's Life , blog of the ever gracious writer Caroline Clemmons: Read it HERE
Monday, April 23, 2012

Buddies in the Saddle: Interview and Review

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Ron Scheer's excellent blogsite Buddies in the Saddle has posted a review of Cherokee Winter , and a lengthy interview with me. Ron aske...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Celebrate National Poetry Month with 30 Days of the 5-2: Crime Poetry

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Gerald So has an excellent weekly crime poetry blog called The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly  -and this April, to help celebrate National Poetr...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Cherokee Winter: New interview up

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My short story collection Cherokee Winter is now available at AMAZON and SMASHWORDS . It is the first of a two-part collection, really -the...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Park Overall for Tennessee!

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Most of you know my friend Park Overall for her many TV roles, most memorably as Laverne on Empty Nest from 1988-1995. For the last cou...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Nominated for a best short story Peacemaker award- twice! What an honor.

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The nominees have been announced for the annual Peacemaker Awards for Western fiction. I am deeply honored that two of my tales have been no...
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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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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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