Is There A Difference When Writing Horses In YA?
My young adult book, Gaits of Magic, released this week and it's the first book in the Divine Rein Academy series, which is a YA fantasy equestrian academy series. On one hand writing YA is different. The protagonists are in high school (I tend to write starting freshman
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Writing My Life’s Purpose
Animals have always played an important role in my life. Growing up, I felt as if my pets understood me far better than any people. Animals were my safe harbor in a very turbulent upbringing, and even before I realized I was neurodivergent and what that entailed, my connection with animals help me to
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How Can I Write So Much About Horses?
As I'm working to get my young adult fantasy equestrian academy series out (You can pre-order Gaits of Magic on my site or your favorite retailer.), and am thinking about my equestrian contemporary fiction series, and I write this blog sitting in my office surrounded by model horses (Breyers) of various sizes, shap
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Submission Call: A Year of Horse Fantasy
As the year turns into 2026, the Chinese zodiac changes and this upcoming year is the year of the horse. As an equestrian author I couldn't let this moment pass by without putting out a call for submissions for an upcoming fantasy anthology featuring stories w
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Equestrian Academy Books and Rich Girls
I'm old enough to have read the Saddle Club books when they first came out. The stories of Steve, Carol, and Lisa seemed like the kind of fun adventures I'd love to have at a barn with friends...if I had a barn and friends. But I lived vicariously through them, and though I outgrew the books (
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Free Books Are A Kindness
There's always been a lot of talk about book pricing and the "race to the bottom" both in terms of money authors receive as well as the price readers pay for the books. And though I haven't participated in givewaways for years (due to life stuff), I know my Bookfunnel app and my Kindle are full of free books that even now I pick up because they sound int
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Let’s Talk Stakes (Not Steaks)
The world just can't stop trying to end! A great example of this is in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. At this point, I don't think I need a spoiler alert to say that Buffy stopped the Master, Angel, the Mayor, Adam, Glory, Willow, and finally the First. In the meantime, she had to keep h
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