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Friday, June 28, 2013

Sons of Spade- a Hardboiled Q&A

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I was very honored to be interviewed by Dutch mystery author Jochem Vandersteen on the blogsite Sons of Spade, about my hardboiled series ...

Farewell to One of the Greatest Genre Writers of the 20th Century: Richard Matheson

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On June 23, one of my favorite writers of all time shuffled off this mortal coil. At 87, Richard Matheson had a long and productive pro...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

One of the Best Cattle Drive Novels You'll Ever Read

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I was very pleased to have one of my novels, The Trail Brothers , included among the westerns brought back into print by the Western Fiction...
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Friday, June 7, 2013

The Blackwell Chronicles

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The first volume of my Blackwell Chronicles is now available from Western Trail Blazer. Here's the blurb: Award winning author...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Return of Rory Decker

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I don't do a lot of book reviews on this site -because, to be honest, I have so many writer friends it would be hard to focus on one...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - in the Old West

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Many years ago I read that John Ford had wanted to do a western version of King Lear . He never got around to it, but someone else did: in 2...
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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
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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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