Horses, anyone?

8/4/2012

A writing buddy of mine just gave me a heads up about "The Scorpio Races" by Maggie Stiefvater. Anyone read anything by her?

Can't tell you much yet (I'm only a couple chaps in), but "The Scorpio Races" looks like a very well-written YA full of mythical horses and characters that I made a connection with almost immediately. This is a more literary read than my usual boy/girl-saves-the-world adventure. Will tell you more in a few days.

Sigh. Now how am I supposed to get any writing done, when I keep stumbling across books I want to read instead? I'll just call this "researching the competition" and leave it at that!

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Brenda Haas

8/11/2012 12:38:38 pm

I finished "Scorpio Races." Not only is it extremely well written, but I'd go so far as to add it to my favorite books list. Wow. Not sure how to describe it. The setting and plot - mythical horses coming up out of the ocean and being ridden in a race along the beach of an island in Europe - have such a wildness ... a rawness. The book was written with dueling points of view - that of Puck, a young girl trying to save her home with race winnings, and Sean, a veteran race winner who would do anything for the ocean horse he rides. When circumstances draw the two together, the Scorpio races are radically changed for the future.

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Brenda Haas lived in the Pittsburgh, PA area for over 20 years and moved to Lake Erie with her husband in early 2018. She has two grown daughters and way too many pets.

A columnist for Pittsburgh area's Penn Franklin News Publishing Company, her "A Little Bit of Life" essays provided a snapshot of being a parent, wife and independent woman who attracts the "quirky" in everyday living. She has also been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and My Outer Banks Home magazine.

Brenda currently freelances for various businesses and non-profits and is well-versed in public relations and marketing.

Fiction
Works-in-Progress

Adult:
- "Sutton's Second Chance"
- "Sutton's Choice"

Young Adult:
- "Something Strange at Water's Edge"
- "Hells of Southgate"
- "Forest for the Trees"

Picture Books:
- "Picky Piccadilly"
- "Millicent & Moneybags"
- "Jenna's Very Good Day"

Horses, anyone?

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