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• Ten  Weeks Til...
• Betrayed
• Osporeni
• Death Match
• Disavowed
• Ramblings

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• Heat of the Moment
• Inkplots: Random Acts of Writing
• Naughty and Nice
• Buck Naked Unitarians
• Black & Blue & Read All Over

  Sam Morton  

About Sam

A Rock Hill, SC native and 1985 graduate of The Citadel, Sam Morton is co-author of five fiction anthologies and three novels. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in English. He is a member of The Inkplots, a group of published writers and authors active in South Carolina’s vibrant literary experience.

His past occupations include a 12 year-stint as a robbery/ homicide detective for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department in Columbia, SC, a

ten-year career as a professional wrestler, and one long week as the blade changer on the potato cutting machine at the Frito Lay plant in Charlotte, NC

He is a freelance writer for a host of national and regional periodicals. His novel, Betrayed was nominated for a Newbery Medal for excellence in children’s literature and for the PEN/Faulkner award given by the Folger Shakespeare Library for the most notable American fiction in a calendar year. He resides in Columbia with his wife and two children.