Comments on: Confessions of a Horse-Obsessed Author

By: BlogMistress

BlogMistress — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:31:15 +0000

It’s fun hearing about other women’s horse backgrounds or wishful thinking.

By: Shannon Donnelly

Shannon Donnelly — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:27:00 +0000

Must buy this book! I, too, grew up horse-mad — went through the Walter Farley books, and on to Black Beauty, graduated to the Flicka movies, and finally talked my parents into giving me riding lessons when I turned seven (they were worried I was too young — even though I’d been up behind my mum when I was three, and had already stolen my brother’s rocking horse).

Once up, never looked back — and, yes, riding is great for what ails you. It’s hard to feel back looking at the world from the back of a horse. And I’m going to be back in the saddle soon (but I’m moving from hunters/jumpers to trail horses these days). However, once horse mad, always horse mad.

By: Vella Munn

Vella Munn — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:34:12 +0000

Patricia, your horse experience leaves mine in your dust even though my mother, sister, and I owned a couple while I was growing up. Apparently I kept telling my mother that I dreamed about horses every night and when a government bond matured, she bought a three year old, green broke mare. Boy were we in over our heads. I learned the hard way not to lead a horse while wearing flip flops. Anyone wanna see my still-mashed toes?
For some insane reason, my sister and I decided we were going to own a thoroughbred ranch once we’d made our fortunes. Maybe that’s indictitive of how far fetched my imagination was and still is.
Unlike me, my characters are fantastic horsepeople when the book calls for it. That’s one of the wonderful things about being writers, right? There’s nothing we can’t do, vicariously at least.