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Format: Open, non-DRM file. Winners will be sent the URL of a webpage where they can download the eBook in PDF, ePub, Kindle, or prc format. How far can a horse travel in a day? What does a horse eat? When is a brown horse really a sorrel (or a bay, or a dun)? What do tack and withers and canter mean? In this long-awaited and much-requested book based on her "Horseblog" at Book View Café, author and horse breeder Judith Tarr answers these questions and many more. She looks at horses from the perspective of the writer whose book or story needs them as anything from basic transport to major plot device, and provides definitions, explanations, and links and references for further research--leavened with insight into the world of the horse and the humans who both use and serve him. How fast can a horse run? What happens when a foal is born? How have humans and horses evolved together over the millennia? And above all, what mistakes do writers most often make when writing about horses, and how can the educated writer avoid them? Here is a guide to the fine art of getting it right. Judith Tarr is the author of many novels and short stories under her own name and the pseudonyms Caitlin Brennan and Kathleen Bryan. A lifelong rider and lover of horses, she breeds, raises, and trains Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm near Tucson, Arizona. There are always horses in her books, notably A Wind in Cairo and, as Caitlin Brennan, the Mountain's Call series and her new book for young readers, House of the Star (Tor Starscape, November 2010). Her story, "Classical Horses," is much loved and often reprinted; it can be read for free at Book View Café.