{"id":8992,"date":"2013-01-09T01:14:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T05:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:58:26","slug":"looking-back-on-2012-and-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2013\/01\/looking-back-on-2012-and-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on 2012 &#8230; and ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Trilogy in 2012<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/trilogy_pic_200w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8039\" title=\"The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy - book covers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/trilogy_pic_200w.jpg\" alt=\"The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy - book cover images\" width=\"200\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>2012 saw the publication of <em><strong>Into the Dark<\/strong><\/em>, the final book of <strong>The Legend of the Great Horse<\/strong> trilogy. The 3rd volume concludes with a time-traveling adventure through modern times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/TWRA-logo_2012-w150px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft 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\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book #2 of the trilogy, <em>The Golden Spark<\/em>,<\/strong> won the 2<em>012 Written Arts Awards<\/em> sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccasreads.com\/\">Rebecca&#8217;s Reads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy continues to find new readers interested in history and\/or horses &#8230; or just looking for a fun, worthwhile read. There&#8217;s a lot coming in 2013:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New book giveaways and contests.<\/li>\n<li>The paperback edition of\u00a0 <strong><em>Into the Dark<\/em><\/strong> will\u00a0 be released on June 21, 2013. The ebook editions will be released shortly afterwards.<\/li>\n<li>New creative custom artwork by Canadian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/marti-adrian\/\">Marti Adrian Gregory<\/a> for Book #2: <em>The Golden Spark <\/em>is scheduled to be released this summer.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;journey through history&#8221; of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Legend.of.the.Great.Horse\">trilogy&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a> is moving into the darker&#8211;but colorful&#8211;era of the Middle Ages after the crumbling of ancient Rome.<\/li>\n<li>The trilogy&#8217;s international outreach tour begins in Canada on February 1, 2013.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 saw the publication of Into the Dark, the final book of The Legend of the Great Horse trilogy. The 3rd volume concludes with a time-traveling adventure through increasingly modern eras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,59],"tags":[118,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992"}],"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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}