I almost forgot!

[dancinghorse]

It's Story Monday at Book View Cafe. This week we have a science-fiction murder mystery with a most unusual weapon.

And the Horseblog this week, by commenter request, is on "The Breeder's Eye"--what kind of things your horse-breeder character will focus on, think of, and obsess about.

Up next week: I think I'd better bite the bullet and do the Colic Blog, and then cheer everybody up with a nice horse story.

Coming realsoonnow from a lulu near you: the twentieth-anniversary edition of A Wind in Cairo. Lightly revised, with new introduction and bonus short story, and for those who remember the original edition, a brand-new and Much (oh, MUCH) improved cover. Watch the skies for more details.

For those who don't remember this, or never saw it, it's an Arabian Nights horse story with a distinctly historical twist. It's been a cult favorite for years. We're finally bringing it back in a new! shiny! edition.

Comments

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Great news about WIND IN CAIRO! I really enjoyed that book and heartily recommend it!

[ckocher.livejournal.com]

I still have my much loved and read copy that has been in my library for ... (does the math) ... about 18 years. That original cover sure appealed to a horse-mad young girl!

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

Great news about A Wind in Cairo! Keep us posted--it was one of the first of your works I read, and I'd like to have a copy (I was broke at the time so I read a library copy).

FYI, if you don't have enough icky colic stories, I do have a particularly ugly one about grass founder which turned into a twisted gut. Not entirely sure about all the steps but the pony was the pony of my dreams, who's only recently been supplanted by Miss Mocha in my heart.

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Most every horse person has a tragic colic story. I'm sorry you have one that sounds so unhappy for you.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, first pony and all that...thanks for the sympathy. Windy pony was one of those rare excellent Shetlands, and he deserved to have had a long life instead of dying at nine years old. I was in my early teens when I lost him, and it made a severe impression (yes, I am now obsessive about founder as a result, especially grass founders...and I am really obsessive about colic--that was the one and only colic experience I've had).