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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A Hero for Christmas

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I wanted to share with everyone the news that my friend Cheryl Pierson has released a new collection, A Hero for Christmas , that include...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Leesia Champion's HIDDEN IN THE STORM- Paranormal Fun!

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My friend Leesia Champion is a natural storyteller, and has a great knack for making her characters feel like real people, even when they...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Wolf Creek- Book 2! Kiowa Vengeance

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Wolf Creek: BOOK TWO Kiowa Vengeance Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as ...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

Barack Obama, Race in America, and the Significance of 2012

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In recent months, a couple of studies have been released that I found very disturbing. One demonstrated that  racial prejudice among wh...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

Two Great Christmas Anthologies

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I am delighted to have my work in two different -and very different from one another -western-themed Christmas anthologies this year, either...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Wolf Creek Characters #6 Dr. Logan Munro

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Wolf Creek is probably the most unique Western series ever produced. It is published by Western Fictioneers and written by Ford Fargo- who ...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Wolf Creek Characters #5 Derrick McCain

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Wolf Creek is probably the most unique Western series ever produced. It is published by Western Fictioneers and written by Ford Fargo- who i...
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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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