{"id":7594,"date":"2011-11-11T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T17:00:22","slug":"the-legend-of-the-great-horse-trilogy-gallops-home-summer-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2011\/11\/the-legend-of-the-great-horse-trilogy-gallops-home-summer-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Legend of the Great Horse\u2019 trilogy gallops home Summer 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/COIN_corinth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"COIN_corinth\" width=\"160\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3564\" \/><strong><em>Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong>, the final volume of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy, is to be published on June 21st, the Summer Solstice of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Advance reading copies for Early Reviewers will be made available &#8230; for 1st notifications <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/gh-signup2.html\">sign up for The Great Horse newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">&nbsp; <\/div>\n<p>&raquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/pages\/gh3-pr1_PubAnncmnt.pdf\"><strong>Press Release 11\/11\/11 <\/strong>[PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">BOSTON, MA &#8211; November 11, 2011<\/span> | <strong><em>Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong>, the third and final book of The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy by John Allen Royce, arrives next Summer 2012 to conclude the journey of a modern-day teen lost in history.<\/p>\n<p>Publication is scheduled for the Summer Solstice (June 21st). Into the Dark completes the award-winning series, which offers a fresh and original look at the colorful role of horses in civilization. The tale follows the struggles of a young woman carried unwillingly through history, who uses her knowledge of modern horsemanship to survive humanity\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy\u2019s first volume, Eclipsed by Shadow, earned a Library Journal recommendation and won national awards including the Eric Hoffer Award for best Young Adult Fiction. Recently-released Book #2: The Golden Spark (2011) has already been named an Independent Publisher Highlighted Title and nominated for a Written Arts Award.<\/p>\n<p>The author is a horseman over 20 years of experience in competitive riding, training horses and coaching students. Mr. Royce explains the enduring popularity of horses: <em>\u201cHorses have been with mankind since the beginning\u2014the history of horses is the history of civilization.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong>, the final volume of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy, is to be published on June 21st, the Summer Solstice of 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59,312],"tags":[118,400,230,231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}