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  • Three years ago, I committed to reading more books in the equestrian genre. To date, I have read over 153 books – including 75 in the middle grade reader category! When I added them all up this morning, I was pleasantly surprised. In honor of May 10th, Buy a Horse Book Day, I wanted to …

  • As many of you know, I’m on the downhill slide to the finish of my novel writing course. This course has been invaluable to me as I’m working hard on a middle-grade novel. It has given me the motivation to stick with the story-telling and get this idea down on paper. Today as I was …

  • I will be honest, after four books featuring girls and horses, I had no intention of writing a book featuring a boy. I have nothing against boys, I just did not feel I could do a boy book justice. After all, I raised a girl. What could I possibly know about boys? I dodged the …

  • Wherever you are on your writing journey, there are always opportunities to learn and grow. Sometimes though, you feel so overwhelmed about where to start. I’m working on my first middle-grade novel. Somewhere around 6,000 words in, I know I need to do something, but I don’t know what. I’ve had Mary Kole’s Writing Irresistible …

  • If you are serious about becoming an author, then you need to be serious about the fact that being an author is also running a business. There are no two ways about it. Check your state, county, and city to see what’s required for your area. Below I have given you just a quick overview …

  • Back Door Horse Author: Heather Wallace Pages: 256 Recommended Reading Age: 18+ I had the pleasure of meeting Heather Wallace in 2019 at the Equus Film Festival in Lexington, Kentucky. She was promoting her book Girl Forward about her experiences in Mongolia photographing the Gobi Desert Cup, an endurance horse race. Her love of horses …

  • Have you ever had the urge to write a children’s book? Maybe a young adult novel to rival Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight? Or maybe you dream about writing a book such as The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. As always, the #1 advice I give to every aspiring author whether you have experience writing or not …

  • Meg and Merlin: Making Friends Author: Tanya Landman Pages: 45 Recommended Reading Age: 7-12 Meg wants a horse of her own more than anything in the world. She has been taking lessons and rides well. But her parents lose their jobs and are unable to continue to pay for lessons. Meg hopes that she will …

  • Coyote Sunrise and her father Rodeo have been wandering across the country for the past five years in a school bus nicknamed Yaeager. Ever since the loss of her mom and two sisters in a car accident, they have drifted from place to place with few rules to guide them along the way including no …

  • I sat on a panel over the weekend at the 11th Annual Great Valley Bookfest speaking on the topic of Writing and Publishing Children’s Books 101 for the Indy Author. It’s a really important topic and one that just can fully be handled in an hour. Mariah Clark Skewes and I tackled as many questions …