Exciting news for the book this month: sometime in May we will hit 100 sales of Standing in a Field With Horses!
It’s amazing to me that this independently published book with no initial audience now has almost a hundred readers. Thank you to everyone who has read it, shared it, and reviewed it on Amazon. It’s a memoir, yes, but more than that it’s a record of jumping the gap from traditional horse training into something beyond. Somewhere there is an equestrian who needs to know that they’re not weak or wimpy for not wanting to bully themselves or their horse into doing something neither wants to do. Somewhere there is a beginner who hears the horses speak but doesn’t think it’s possible to listen to them. This book is written for them, because I went through it. It’s also written for the instructor with a sensitive student, or the parent with a horse-obsessed child. Getting the first-person perspective of someone different than yourself is valuable.
I’d like to do some sort of giveaway when I hit a hundred books. What say you all? Would you be interested in a signed copy of the book? An in-depth rune reading of a horsey question you have, sent to your inbox? A small painting of one of the horses mentioned in the book? What is a good drawing prize?
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