The Great Horse

The Mom’s Choice Awards® has named Eclipsed by Shadow: The Legend of the Great Horse ~ Book I of III among the best in family-friendly media, products and services.

Eclipsed by Shadow wins Gold!
Eclipsed by Shadow: Book I ~The Legend of the Great Horse has been named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services by the Mom’s Choice Awards®

October 22, 2009 | The following is a new review of Eclipsed by Shadow by Angela Simmons for Review the Book:
Owning a horse was the only thing that teenager Meagan Roberts could think about. Owning a legendary great horse never crossed her mind.
In “Eclipsed by Shadow”, we see that Meagan’s horse, Promise, is just that. [...]

March 2, 2009 | The following is an upcoming review of Eclipsed by Shadow by Mary Barrett (“Let’s Read”) for The Nashville News:
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This book brings to life man’s fascinating partnership with the horse. Teenage and adult readers will thrill to this remarkable story featuring the horse’s role in history. Readers become part of the [...]

I haven’t yet linked to this review in The US Review of Books, basically because my blog is an affront to the good work of bloggers everywhere.

Emily Hinton for the US Review of Books
Eclipsed by Shadow, the first installment of Royce’s Legend of the Great Horse trilogy transforms a majestic beast into a thrilling [...]

“Eclipsed by Shadow” was named a July 4th Display Title by the New England Independent Booksellers Association (NEIBA).
The book was featured in various bookstores in the Boston area, including Village Books in Roslindale, Harvard Square Books, Porter Square Books and Robin Bledsoe’s equestrian-oriented antiquarian bookstore.

Eclipsed by Shadow has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Young Adult (YA) Fiction!
This is a tremendous national honor given in the name of one of America’s great thinkers.

The Eric Hoffer Award for short prose and books was established at the start of the 21st century as a means of [...]

“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.” – Eric Hoffer, American Philosopher
Boston, MA, May 8, 2009 (PressReleasePoint) – The YA historical fiction novel Eclipsed by Shadow has been named to the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is presented each year as [...]

Next week I will be at the Massachusetts Library Association’s 2009 Conference, the annual gathering of librarians that also features vendor booths for publishers and booksellers. (May 5-8, 2009)

I will be taking “Eclipsed by Shadow” to the event. This will be my first library convention to attend personally, although the book traveled West last fall [...]