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  • Fire at the Track: A Harness Racing Mystery M.J. Evans 286 pages Recommended reading age: 15+ Harness racing has always fascinated me. It’s an equestrian sport I didn’t know much about, other than the fact that horses must maintain a specific gait, either a trot or a pace—so I was excited to pick up this …

  • Objects in Mirror Tudor Robins Stonegate Series – Book 1 226 pages Recommended reading age: 13 – 18 years old “What if achieving your dream meant losing everything else that mattered?” Technically considered the first book in the Stonegate Series, Objects in Mirror, follows the prequel Catch Rider. The series focuses on different characters at …

  • I know you are thinking. Why is an author writing a blog post titled Project Runway? I would probably have the same reaction, too. Hang with me a minute, and hopefully I will connect the two. After all my fun over the summer, apparently my body decided it had had enough, and I caught COVID. …

  • Cowgirl Lessons was my way of capturing something truly special, my daughter’s first deep-down, forever kind of love: horses. It all started with Duchess, a sweet little half-Arabian, half-Welsh pony with a whole lot of sass and heart. Lizzie was just six when she began her lessons, and from day one, she was hooked. All …

  • 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 …