Larry D. Sweazy’s
short story, "The Promotion", has been honored both by the western genre and mystery genre. He won the WWA 2005 Spur award for best short fiction, and "The Promotion" also appeared in The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories! His short story, "See Also Murder" was nominated for a Derringer Award in 2007.
Larry's first western, The Rattlesnake Season, a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel, was released by Berkley Books on October 06, 2009. Book #2 in the Josiah Wolfe series, The Scorpion Trail, was released April 06, 2010. Book #3, The Badger's Revenge, was released on April 05, 2011, and Book #4, The Cougar's Prey, will be released in October, 2011. Release dates for Book #5, The Coyote Tracker, and Book #6, The Gila Wars, are forthcoming.
The Rattlesnake Season was a finalist in the Best Books of Indiana 2010 literary competition.
The Scorpion Trail won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallion award for Western Fiction, and the Best Books of Indiana 2011 literary competition for Best Fiction.
Larry's first mystery novel, The Devil's Bones, will be published in 2012, by Five Star.
His other short stories have appeared in, or will appear in, Boys' Life, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Amazon Shorts, Hardboiled, Terminal Fright, and other anthologies and magazines.
Larry's non-fiction articles have appeared in The Drood Review, Mystery Muses, Roundup magazine, www.bookgasm.com, and in the upcoming release from M.E. Sharpe, The Encyclopedia of the Western Expansion.
Larry's poetry has appeared in The Red River Review, The Raintown Review, The Tipton Poetry Journal, and other literary reviews.
Larry is also the owner of WordWise Publishing Services, LLC, and as a freelance indexer, he has written over 600 back-of-the-book indexes for publishers such as Cisco Press, Addison-Wesley, O’Reilly, and Cengage-Gale.
Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and a cat, Nigel.
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