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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Writing about Indians When You're Not One

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I few months ago I decided to write a blog for Western Fictioneers about the pitfalls of non-American Indians writing about a culture very ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Wolf Creek #7: THE QUICK AND THE DYING

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The latest installment of the Wolf Creek series is out. In this one, we find out what happens when Sampson Quick's old gang, The Ho...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Introducing the inspirational imprint EBENEZER PRESS

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For a couple of years now, I have been releasing some of my books and short stories on my own, though I've also continued working with ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Patsy Giddings, author of Sandy's Miracle

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Today I am focusing on a nonfiction piece from the recent Foxleaf Anthology (available HERE ) ... an excerpt from Patsy Giddings'...
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Poetry by Sasha Mabe

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I have another excerpt from the Foxleaf Anthology, available  HERE , this one by poet Sasha Mabe. Here's how she introduces hers...
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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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