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 is currently a feature writer for Leisure Living Magazine, covering the Shores & Islands Ohio region. She also freelances for nonprofits and is well-versed in public relations, marketing, and editing. She spent many years as a reporter and columnist for a Pittsburgh press. Her writing has appeared in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and My Outer Banks Home magazine, among other publications.

Brenda lived in the Pittsburgh, PA area for more than 20 years. She now resides in Lakeside, OH, a circa-1870s Lake Erie community attracting generations of annual vacationers, artists, and educators. It serves as the vintage setting for her debut novel — Finding Sutton’s Choice (Orange Hat Publishing/Ten16 Press, release May 2025).

Works-in-Progress
Women's Fiction:
- Sutton's Second Chance
- Here or There on Beddington Bluff

Young Adult:
- Hells of Southgate
- Forest for the Trees

Horses, anyone?

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