The Eye of the Storm Equine Rescue held a benefit party in Stow today, and I went to do some book-signing. I got to meet the EOTS volunteers who had read my book and were recommending it to other horse-lovers, who bought copies of their own. One young customer said she could relate to the Sam story because her Dad was always saying she was 'going through a horse phase.' Yo, Dad,some people's horse phases last a very long time...

I did recommend that one lovely fresh-faced eleven-year old put off reading "Sam" until she's older, because it deals with family violence and parental abandonment. Her equally lovely mom, a teacher in the public schools, might relate to the bullying issues in the story, but I think eleven is too young and tender an age to tolerate the harshness that crops up here and there in "Sam."