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 novel, The Rattlesnake Season, a Josiah Wolfe, Texas Ranger novel is scheduled for release by Berkley Books in the fall of 2009

His other short stories have appeared in, or will appear in, Boy's Life, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Amazon Shorts, Hardboiled, and Terminal Fright. Larry also is currently serving a two-year term on the Mystery Writer's of America (MWA) Midwest Chapter's Board of Directors.

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 450 back-of-the-book indexes for publishers such as Cisco Press, Addison-Wesley, O’Reilly, and Thomson-Gale.

He he has also contributed to The Drood Review as a book reviewer.

Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, Brodi and Sunny, and a cat, Nigel.