And just before Queen of Iron Years, I also saw the second in my ‘four seasons quartet’ appear. AUTUMN OF THE WILD PONY (with a foreword from Julie Czerneda) is out from the Banana Oil Imprint of Cyberwizard Press in America, and I’m also very happy to see that book appear. It’s set a year after the events in Summer of Dreaming (winner of the 2011 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Young Adult SF/F Book by a New Zealand author published in 2010.) Writing this was a lot of fun while I looked back to my own days of riding, and also using some of my current farming background. The third in the quartet, working title for the completed first draft – The Wicked Winter – is tentatively scheduled for 2014, while I begin writing the final book, A Pony-Buying Spring, at the start of 2013.
