Hi everyone!

If you’re not signed up to my mailing list, you may be unaware that I am working away on two novels currently!  Contagious, book 6 in the Free Rein series is half written and I’m working on an adult horse fiction novel titled B and B which will be released via my Horse Country website.

Other than this, I have posted two articles over at Horse Crossings:

1. Marketing Yourself as an Author, posted January 25th
   1. If you write horse books, do you promote yourself effectively?  Find out!
2. Horse Reading Goals, posted Feburary 22nd
   1. Did you know I’m planning to read 150 books this year, most of which will be horse related?

I have also started writing for Horse Conscious and had my first article The Importance of Education with Horses released recently.  You can keep up to date on each of my articles as they’re published, here.

How is your horse related reading and writing progressing this year?

Merry Christmas everyone!  If you haven’t yet read the first book in the Free Rein series, now is your chance to secure it!

Over December 24 and 25, it will be available for free download on Kindle.  You can access the book via this link!

Be sure to spread the word and share with people who love to read horse books!  Have a blessed Christmas and New Year.

Christine

Hi everyone! I have been working away on book 6 of the Free Rein series but must admit that time has gotten away from me. Although the original plan was a pre Christmas release, I am now aiming for an early 2016 release of book number 6.

I apologise the writing has been slow for me on this one; recently I have completed my Equine Science degree and my husband and I are thrilled to be expecting our second child! Life is busy but good!

As part of the latest Equus Education Blog Hop, which focuses on Equine Goals for 2016, mine is the release of Book 6 in the Free Rein series, titled Contagious. Do you have any horse related goals for next year? I’d love to hear about them!

There are so many interesting things to learn about horses! This post is part of the Equus Education Blog Hop, focused on Equine Learning.

One thing I learned about early whilst growing up and reading about horse related things, was that a horse and a donkey crossed are known as a mule. Did you know that the mule is infertile? That is, that it cannot produce babies of its own?

It turns out that horses and donkeys have a different number of paired chromosomes. It is important that these come in pairs so that things work correctly in our body. Humans have 23 Pairs of chromosomes, or 46 in total. Horses have 32 pairs and donkeys have 31 pairs.

When a donkey and a horse are bred together, the horse parent gives half of its chromosomes to the growing baby (32) and the donkey parent gives half of its chromosomes (31). This means that the total number for the mule baby is (63). Suddenly one chromosome is left without a pair, which leaves it infertile, or not able to reproduce.

Isn’t that unusual? What interesting or unusual fact have you learned about horses? Share with me in a reply to this post!

Hi everyone!

Just a quick note to let you know that New Beginnings, book 1 in the Free Rein series is currently free for download on Amazon Kindle. If you enjoyed the series, be sure to spread the news!

If you haven’t read it yet, why not grab yourself a copy? Head along to Amazon Kindle to download your copy!

Christine 🙂