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The Blog of Author and Historian Troy D. Smith

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Stomp Boogie

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Last year my blues detective novel Cross Road Blues was released by Perfect Crime Books. I had a great time writing it, and it's one of ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sword & Circuitry: The Raven Saga

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Twenty years ago I came up with an idea for a sci fi/fantasy/sword & sorcery trilogy... each book would be composed of four 20k-word nov...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

The Gunsmoke Journal #3: Chester vs. Festus

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In this installment of my Gunsmoke musings, I ask the all-important question: Chester or Festus? Which was your favorite? Which was th...
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Letter Home from the Civil War

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I was born in Sparta, Tennessee, which is in an area of the state known as the Upper Cumberland. A year ago I ended a six-year sojourn at th...
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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Summer Reading

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Smashwords is running a great deal for the month of July, with many of the titles they carry only costing half as much as normal, or in s...
Friday, June 29, 2012

The Gunsmoke Journal: #2 Marshal of What, Exactly?

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In the longrunning western TV classic Gunsmoke , Matt Dillon was the marshal of Dodge City. And he was a U.S. Marshal. He rode herd over ...
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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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