Horses and Bookses!

How far can a horse travel in a day? What does a horse eat? When is a brown horse really a sorrel (or a bay, or a dun)? What do 'tack' and 'withers' and 'canter' mean?
 
Author and horse breeder Judith Tarr answers these questions and many more in this long-awaited guide for writers, with insight into the world of the horse and the humans who both use and serve him.  It's a pretty cool book, if I do say so!

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Tarr-Writing-Horses



WRITING HORSES, The Fine Art of Getting It Right (original non-fiction)
Release Date:  November 15, 2010      
Price:  $4.99
ISBN: 978 1 61138 030 9
Formats:  .pdf, .epub, .mobi, .prc

In the Cards

Last night I was pecking away at rewrites for THE DOOMSDAY VAULT when Mackie came up to me.  "Do you want to play TALISMAN, Daddy?"

"Well, it's bedtime in an hour, and TALISMAN takes a long time to play."

Crestfallen look.

"Would you like to play some cards instead?"

"Okay!"

We played a game of Go Fish on the living room rug.  Aran asked to join in (and I have to say only a few years ago that kind of social interaction would have had me leaping with joy), so we played another.  By then my legs were getting cramped, so we shifted to the kitchen, where we popped some corn.  Around the kitchen table we played Fish and Crazy Eight and ate popcorn and made silly jokes until the bowl was empty and we were tired.

It was a nice evening.

Long Drive

Over the weekend, Sasha drove everyone all the way from Wherever to Ypsilanti, and all the way back again.  Crowded highway driving, and he made no mistakes and had no problems.  Go him!