Category Equestrian posts
Brief #blogging hiatus
Life has taken over for a short while – it’s the peak of competition season and I simply don’t have the time to devote sufficient attention to producing quality blog posts, so there will be a short break in my publishing series and general updates. If you’re not familiar with my day job: this was […]
The trials of being traditionally published continued… #TradPub
Being traditionally published is the dream of many authors. Well, let me tell you, it’s not always as wonderful as you might think. There is no question, it’s a thrill to see your books on the shelves in bookstores. But the reality of other parts of the business is far from many people’s beliefs. I’ve […]
#EquestrianPodcast – featuring ME!
When this post goes live I will be driving the length of the UK, on my way from my home in the Scottish Highlands to the south coast of England to train my equestrian clients down there, and to judge for a couple of days at the British Dressage Winter Championships. By way of something […]
New #equestrian book is published – finally! #TradPub
Yay! FINALLY it’s published! And yes, I’m pleased with the finished book (phew!) Most of you have been following the saga of my latest TradPub book. If you want to (or need to) catch up, here are the previous posts: But that saga isn’t quite finished… Having changed the predicted publication date from mid September […]
My day job, judging at the British Dressage National Championships
I missed posting last week because I had 12 manic working days during the last fortnight and simply did not have the time. 5 days coaching riders in the south of England (in a heatwave), 3 days driving (that’s 650 miles each way from one end of the country to the other), and 4 fabulous […]
Yet more about the #tradpub experience
Maybe I’m just unfortunate. Maybe this is the way of things these days, but this experience is firming up my resolve that this will definitely be my last traditionally published book. These posts relate the situation so far: And so to the latest… Just before the last weekend in May, I received an email from […]
More #Tradpub experience…
This past week I have been working away from home, and had a revelation courtesy of one of my enthusiastic clients: my new equestrian book is available on Amazon for pre-order, and has a firm publishing date. Well, colour me gobsmacked. Not only were there a huge percentage of the diagrams missing when I received […]
My latest #TradPub experience
For those of you who have been around here for a while, you already know that I am a hybrid author, with my novels self-published and my non-fiction equestrian books produced by a traditional publisher. You might also have noticed a while ago that I was commissioned to write another equestrian title by my current […]
News!! A new book in the pipeline #Dressage
I have good news, although it will impact on my blogging for a while, I’m afraid. I was contacted last week by the commissioning editor of Crowood Press, current owners of the J.A. Allen imprint that publishes my equestrian books. She has come up with an idea for a new series of short(ish) books, ‘100 […]
Second book earns out! #HappyAuthor
This week I had the delight of receiving the first copies of the second edition of THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF TRAINING, my first published book on horse training. Having sold out its first print run last November, it took me a while to ascertain that my new publisher (who bought out the publisher who’d bought […]
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