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, was released by Berkley Books on October 06, 2009. Book
#2 in the Josiah Wolfe series, The Scorpion Trail, is scheduled to be released April 06, 2010. Book #3, The
Badger's Revenge, and Book #4, The Cougar's Prey, have not been officially scheduled for release as of this
update.
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 Thomson-Gale.
Larry lives in Indiana with his wife, Rose, and two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, and a cat, Nigel.
Speaker Services infomation
Larry D. Sweazy is represented by Cherry Weiner of the Cherry Weiner Literary Agency
