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Saturday, April 27, 2013

High Noon, Gary Cooper, and the Cold War

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I posted an essay over at the Western Fictioneers blog about the film High Noon, and the story behind it. Check it out HERE
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Peacemaker finalist "Christmas Comes to Freedom Hill": excerpt

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I was quite honored to learn that "Christmas Comes to Freedom Hill" is one of the finalists for the Peacemaker Award for western f...
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

REDNECK NOIR

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The second short story in my DEAD REDNECKS! series is now available. The series is about two brothers in Knoxville -the eldest is a tough...
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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Blackwell Down Under

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Now available- the latest installment in the Blackwell saga (#11, if you're countin'!) "Caleb Blackwell found no luck in t...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Mo' Murder, Mo' Blues

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Check out the newest installment of the Roy Carpenter mysteries, the short story "Stomp Boogie"... GET IT HERE! It featu...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013

The Peacemakers! Read them all!

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Three years ago Western Fictioneers instituted the Peacemaker Awards, to honor the best western literature of the year in three categories: ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Dead Rednecks!

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I am very happy to say that the first installment of my new mystery short story series, Dead Rednecks!, is now available from Publishing by...
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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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