Larry D. Sweazy
After fifteen years of submitting fiction, and collecting hundreds of rejection slips, Larry D. Sweazy’s first professionally published short story, “The Promotion” was published by Berkley in the anthology, Texas Rangers, in 2004. “The Promotion” went on to win the WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur award for Best Short Story, 2005, and was honored, as well, by the mystery genre with an appearance in the 2004 best mystery short story anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman, 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 the Short Mystery Fiction Society Derringer Award in 2007.
AWARDS
Larry has served as the president of the ASI (American Society of Indexing) Heartland Chapter, on the Board of Directors for the MWA (Mystery Writers of America) Midwest Chapter, as a WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur Award judge, a Wyoming Writers Conference judge, and currently serves as the WF (Western Fictioneers) Awards Chair. Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and a cat, Nigel.
Larry provided us with "By Way of Angel Mountain" for our Christmas Campfire Companion. You can find him online at LarryDSweazy.com.
AWARDS
- The Cougar's Prey (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger #4) won the 2012 Will Rogers Medallion award for Western Fiction.
- The Scorpion Trail (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger #2) won the 2011 Will Rogers Medallion award for Western Fiction.
- The Scorpion Trail (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger #2) won the Best Books of Indiana 2011 literary competition for Best Fiction.
- The Rattlesnake Season (Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger #1) was a finalist in the Best Books of Indiana 2010 literary competition for Best Fiction.
Larry has served as the president of the ASI (American Society of Indexing) Heartland Chapter, on the Board of Directors for the MWA (Mystery Writers of America) Midwest Chapter, as a WWA (Western Writers of America) Spur Award judge, a Wyoming Writers Conference judge, and currently serves as the WF (Western Fictioneers) Awards Chair. Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and a cat, Nigel.
Larry provided us with "By Way of Angel Mountain" for our Christmas Campfire Companion. You can find him online at LarryDSweazy.com.
