Angela Dorsey’s Blog

I just came across a great video by Garth Woodward that shows the country where Winter of Crystal Dances takes place, including that most important of beautiful things, the wild horses! The song in the video is by Miranda Swift and it perfectly matches the images in the video.

If you want to check it out, click here.

So the first book in the Whinnies series came out in January and Bobbie at the Pony Club says that they’re getting some great feedback! Many of you seem to really like it, which totally makes my day!

If any of you want to tell others what you thought of the book, feel free to send a review to be posted on the website here, by going to my Reviews page. Then you can go here a few days later, to read your review!

Coming to your bookstore in 2011 – THE TIME THIEF!!!

Napoleon and Company, that awesome Canadian publisher of many wonderful books, has just decided that they want to publish Hunted, now titled THE TIME THIEF. Isn’t that a great title!

I am very happy and excited about Napoleon publishing my much loved second novel. I can’t wait until you can all read it and enjoy it!

I just realized that I’d forgotten to add Frantic Flight and Sobekkare’s Revenge to the Buy a Book page. If you’ve always wanted to own those books, why don’t you check it out? They’re there now!

Also, I just added Winter of the Crystal Dances, the first of the Whinnies on the Wind series. They seem to be quite popular! And remember, for those of you who have just read it, send in a review!

So I’m starting Winter of Sinking Waters tomorrow! It’s very exciting being on the eve of a new book!!! This book is based on something that actually happened to my grandmother too, which makes it doubly cool, to me anyway.

Then I remember that I’m now more than halfway through this series. That’s when I feel sad. But only for a moment. I’m not at the end yet, and just think of the adventures Evy is going to have between now and then!

I just received the cover art for the second book in the Whinnies on the Wind series, Spring of the Poacher’s Moon, from the wonderfully talented Jennifer Bell! See below:

Amazing, isn’t it? I love the way it portrays boundless energy and the joy of spring!

Two more beautiful covers in Germany! The books that were Frantic Flight and Gold Fever, that are now titled Eine Chance für Amelie and Hilfe für Katie.

Pretty nice cover art!

There’s a new question under the Question of the Month and here is my answer to my own question. I’d love to hear yours! Go to: http://www.angeladorsey.com/questionotm.html to send me your answer.

Things I love about winter: the coziness of being inside while watching snowflakes tumble past the window; cheery fires; checking out other people’s christmas lights; the brightness of the starry sky at night; petting furry outdoor animals; christmas dinner; and finally winter beaches. Check out the photos below. I took these last winter.

In the Brittany Triangle area of B.C., there have been wild horses for more than two hundred years. They are strong and resilient creatures – and amazingly beautiful!

Am I right? Or am I right?

My new series is about these horses. I love writing about them!!!

In January 2010, the first of my Whinnies on the Wind books will come out! It’s called Winter of the Crystal Dances and the main human character is a girl named Evy. Here is a little bit about Evy, told in her own words:

“Hi. My name’s Evy and I’m thirteen. I live in the Brittany Triangle area of the Chilcotin, the high plateau in central B.C. – and now that the introductions are over, I can tell you the interesting stuff.

First, my mom thinks I’m a poet, but I’m not. I’m a translator – which brings up the only really cool thing about me. I understand horses, like really understand them. They don’t speak in words, but in feelings and impressions and thoughts, and when I write them down, Mom thinks it’s poetry. Not even Kestrel, my best friend, knows the truth. I tried to tell my mom once. Big mistake! She freaked. When I finally convinced her I was joking, she mumbled over her paintings for days, something that to me is far weirder than understanding horses.

The second interesting thing is that we’re not living in the bush for the fun of it. My mom’s hiding out and has been ever since I was a baby. Why? Who from? I don’t know, but one of these days she’ll let some important information slip out and I’ll be right there, hearing it, figuring it out – and maybe even doing a little investigating on the side. 

Learning the truth about my mom won’t change anything though. I love it here. This land is part of me. The summers are so luminous they make my heart ache with beauty, and the winters are as piercing as a flute’s high song. I glory in the spread of sky and the wildness beneath it, with sprinkles of civilization, the ranches, only here and there.

Third, and most interesting of all, are the horses, both wild and tame. The wild ones are the Nemaiah Valley Mustangs, here for more than 200 years, and the soul of this place. Wise, ancient herds. The tame ones are my friends.

I’ll tell you about them all, if you let me. I’ll tell you their stories – no – our stories, if you want to hear.”

I hope that you want to hear Evy’s stories. I have loved telling them!