{"id":7847,"date":"2012-02-28T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2017-06-01T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:59:57","slug":"the-golden-spark-wins-1st-place-in-2012-written-arts-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2012\/02\/the-golden-spark-wins-1st-place-in-2012-written-arts-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Golden Spark<\/em> wins 1st Place in 2012 Written Arts Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4112\" title=\"The Golden Spark bookcover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gh2-icon187x289.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"The Golden Spark bookcover;The Golden Spark&quot; bookcover (2011)\" width=\"187\" height=\"289\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccasreadsarchives.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/22\/the-golden-spark\/\"><strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>John Royce<\/strong><em><\/em><\/a> won a 2012 <em>Written Arts Award<\/em>, placing 1st in Science Fiction\/Fantasy!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Written Arts Awards<\/em> are an annual literary awards program hosted by <b><em>Rebecca&#8217;s Reads<\/em><\/b>. The awards were founded to pay tribute to authors who are independently published.<\/p>\n<p><b><em>Rebecca&#8217;s Reads<\/em><\/b> reviewers conducted the initial evaluation of title entries, followed by a final round held by jury of judges.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; height:15px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccasreadsarchives.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/22\/the-golden-spark\/\"><strong><em>The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong> Award Review:<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7952\" title=\"Written Arts Award-w150px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TWRA-logo_2012-w150px.jpg\" alt=\"2012 Written Arts Awards\" width=\"138\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So begins \u201cThe Golden Spark,\u201d John Royce\u2019s 2nd book in \u201cThe Legend of the Great Horse\u201d trilogy.  Don\u2019t worry if you haven\u2019t read the 1st book in the series, \u201cEclipsed by Shadow\u201d as the author provides a special note to those who haven\u2019t in the beginning of the book.  He gives a brief summary and then reprints the last chapter of the first book so that those who are unfamiliar with the tale can get caught up.  I found this to be a nice touch.<\/p>\n<p>Another helpful addition is the seven page glossary at the end of the novel.  Being that the story is set in time periods long ago there are many unfamiliar terms used throughout the book.  The glossary is extremely helpful in deciphering the meaning of these words that are not used often today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Golden Spark\u201d is a tale that will appeal to young readers of fantasy and particularly readers interested in horsemanship.  The story is magical and enchanting and the writing moves along at a nice pace as we follow Meagan on her journey through history.  I think that it could easily be turned into a movie.  I look forward to the continuation of Meagan\u2019s story in Book 3. \u2014 Reviewed by Kam Aures for <em>RebeccasReads<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book2.html\"><strong>Book II:<em> The Golden Spark<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is the 2nd book of The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy, an intriguing and fun time-travel adventure through history \u2014 on horseback.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book1.html\"><strong>Book I: <em>Eclipsed by Shadow<\/em><\/strong><\/a> won national awards including the <em>Eric Hoffer Award<\/em> for best Young Adult Fiction, and the 2010 <em>Mom\u2019s Choice Award<\/em> for best family-friendly Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Golden Spark<\/em> has won in a <b>2012 Written Arts Award<\/b>, placing 1st in Science Fiction\/Fantasy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289,60,59],"tags":[375,84,317,301,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847"}],"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=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15131,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/15131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}