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CONTACT: Larry D. Sweazy

Check here for the most recent updates and appearances!

APPEARANCES

2012
 

 
 
 
Launch information for The Devil's Bones:
 
 03/14/2012
5PM to 8PM
17090 Mercantile Blvd.
Noblesville, IN 46060
317-773-7952 
 
 
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 03/17/2012
1PM to 4PM
Mudsock Book & Curiousity Shoppe
11850 Allisonville Road
Fishers, In  46038
317-579-9822
 
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UPDATES
 
 
 

Five Star has contracted The Devil's Bones, a stand-alone police-procedural mystery, for release in 2012

 

Berkley has contracted two more Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novels.  The Coyote Tracker (#5) and The Gila Wars (#6).  Release dates to be announced soon

 

 

Thorndike Press will publish the large print, hardcover, version of The Scorpion Trail.  It will be available for purchase 10/17/2010.  

 

 

Lit 103.3 will publish, and read on the air, the short story, "Pushback"  in January, 2011.

 

 

 

 *  Point Yonder Press will publish the short story "By Way of Angel Mountain"  in the anthology, Cowboy Christmas, in the winter of 2011.

 

 

* Mysterical-E will reprint the short story, "Call of Duty", in the Spring, 2010 issue.

 

 

* Thorndike Press will publish the large print, hardcover, version of The Rattlesnake Season.  It will be available for purchase 03/17/2010.

 

* "Lucky is Another Country" a new short story, will be read on Lit 103.3, on November, 03, 2009. The podcast and the text version of the story will be available on the web site thereafter.

 

* The Josiah Wolfe series will continue on with a 2-book deal from from Berkley. Josiah Wolfe #3, The Badger's Revenge, and #4, The Cougar's Prey, are slated for publication in late 2010, and early 2011.


* The release date for The Scorpion Trail is 04/06/2010

 

* The release date for The Rattlesnake Season is 10/06/2009

 

* The Rattlesnake Season and The Scorpion Trail have been accepted for publication by Berkley Books in a two-book deal featuring Texas Ranger, Josiah Wolfe. Check back for details.

 

* "The Ridges", a new short story, will appear in the anthology Zombie Raccoons and Killer Bunnies, published by DAW sometime in 2009. Check back for details.

 

* Larry's Spur award winning short story "The Promotion" is now available as an electronic download from the Sony eBook store

 

* Mysterical-E has accepted Larry's short story, "Daddy's Little Girl", for publication in April of 2008

 

* Boys' Life has accepted the short story "The Trouble with Wind" for publication

 

* "Silent Hill", a western short story, has been accepted for the Ghost Towns of the American West anthology, to be published by Kensington Press

 

* Larry is a contributor for the upcoming M.E. Sharpe encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of the Western Expansion, edited by Jim Crutchfield. Topics include, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indian tribes among others.

 

* Amazon Shorts has accepted Larry's short story "A Rain Dance in Chelsea"--publication date--FORTHCOMING

 

* "See Also Murder" has been nominated for a Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Announcements will be made May 15th.

 

* Larry has joined the blog Acme Authors Link as a contributor

 

* Amazon Shorts has accepted Larry's short story "See Also Murder" -- publication date--12/2006

 

* Amazon Shorts has accepted Larry's short story "Call of Duty" -- publication date--11/2006

 

* Amazon Shorts has accepted Larry's short story "Leave of Absence" -- publication date--9/2006

 

* Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine has accepted Larry's short story "The Quarry". Publication date is forthcoming

 

* Look for the next Red Wolfe short story, "The Assignment", the follow-up story to "The Promotion", in Map of Murder to be published in February 2007 by Red Coyote Press


* Essay on Breakheart Hill November, 2006 -- Mystery Muses, Crum Creek Press


* "Rattlesnakes and Skunks" (short story), June 2006 -- Out West


* Breeze (poem) May 2006 -- The Tipton Poetry Journal

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Larry and Robert Conley at the Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody, Wyoming, 6/2006

 

MMXI Larry D. Sweazy. All Rights Reserved.
 
Updated 10/19/2011



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The Mystery Company 10/09

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Signing 10/10/09 Barnes & Noble, Noblesville, IN

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Line at 2009 Bouchercon signing

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Reading Boys' Life at The Wild

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The Wild Bookstore, Noblesville, Indiana