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Monday, May 26, 2014

A Schoolboy's War: A WWII Memoir

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Ebenezer Press is delighted to announce the release of A Schoolboy's War  by Derek Couturas. It is a touching memoir about the Briti...
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Western Trail Blazer -new releases

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Troy D. Smith We're trying to start 2014 off right over at Western Trail Blazer. In our first month of WTB's new era, we've re...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

FIGHT CARD: hardboiled boxing stories, for a good cause

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The folks who produce the popular FIGHT CARD series- featuring short stories about the sweet science of pugilism, set in the 1930s and ...
Friday, January 3, 2014

CALL FOR STORIES part 2: CANE HOLLOW PRESS

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Yesterday in this space I wrote of how my wife Robin and I have taken over ownership of the publisher Western Trail Blazer, which had publis...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

CALL FOR STORIES!

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My wife Robin and I have assumed the reins at Western Trail Blazer, which has been one of the success stories of the ebook age. And we a...
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Sunday, December 29, 2013

We are cherry blossoms

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SAKURA We are cherry blossoms Soft and beautiful Open wide to the sun For a moment And we are gone One bl...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

Roy Carpenter Mysteries for 99 cents, till Saturday

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If you haven't tried out my blues mystery series, set in 1950s Nashville and starring harmonica-player-slash-crime-solver Roy Carp...
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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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