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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Fond Farewell to American Indian Scholar Michael Green

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For years now, one of my favorite things about attending the Southern History, Ethnohistory, and NAISA conferences has been seeing my fri...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Koko Nervelli and "The Puzzle"

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Today I'm spotlighting another author whose work appears in the new Foxleaf Anthology - Koko Nervelli. Koko lives in the Upper Cu...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Patricia Gentry's "Hidden Things of Darkness"

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It's time to highlight another story from the new Foxleaf Anthology. Today's spotlight is on Patricia Gentry. Since retiring, Patri...
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Friday, August 9, 2013

Touching story of love and loss by Vicki J. Cypcar

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This week I am highlighting individual stories -and authors -from the Foxleaf Anthology. Vicki J. Cypcar, author of The Return of Ro...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Cindie Miller's suspenseful story "The Oasis"

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Today I'm highlighting the first story from the new FOXLEAF ANTHOLOGY... "The Oasis" is a compelling story about a wom...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Foxleaf Anthology- Something for Everyone!

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In late 2012, my friend Charion Stacy Slocum –owner of Foxleaf Bookstore, in Cookeville, Tennessee –asked Vicki Cypcar and me to run a wr...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Dead Rednecks on a Friday Night

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The third installment of my "redneck noir" series, Dead Rednecks!, is available now. Here's the cover blurb:  A detecti...
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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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