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| photograph by Rose M. Sweazy |
BIO: Larry D. Sweazy was born in Anderson, Indiana,
and currently resides in the Hoosier state. Larry won the WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur award for Best Short Fiction
in 2005, and was nominated for a SMFS (Short Mystery Fiction Society) Derringer award in 2007. His first novel, The Rattlesnake Season, was a finalist in the Best Books of 2010 Indiana literary competition. His second novel, The Scorpion Trail won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction and the 2011 Best Books of Indiana literary competition in the
fiction category. The Scorpion Trail is the first western to ever win the Best Books of Indiana. He has
published over 50 non-fiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine;
Boys' Life; Hardboiled; Amazon Shorts, and several other publications and anthologies. Larry is the
author of the Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger series (Berkley), and a standalone thriller, The Devil's Bones (Five Star). He is member of MWA (Mystery Writers of America), WWA (Western Writers of America), WF (Western Fictioneers),
and ITW (International Thriller Writers). He lives in Noblesville, with his wife, Rose, two dogs, and a cat.
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