“When Susan Richards writes about horses and the interactions of the people involved with them, she brilliantly captures the characters, equine and human.”—Maxine Kumin
Strong, startling, funny—these stories are rich in their feeling for the human, natural, and sometimes supernatural world of Kentucky.
Susan Starr Richardshas spent most of her life raising racehorses in central Kentucky, and writing. She has been a NEA Fellow in Fiction. Her stories have appeared inThe Kenyon Review,The Sewanee Review,Shenandoah,The Southern Review, and inThoroughbred Times, as winner of their first National Fiction Prize.
Third edition of the Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature.
*Richards has 30+ years in breeding, raising, and racing horses. She wrote these stories at night in the tack room of her barn, waiting for mares to foal *A horse-lover's book with media focus around Derby 2006. *Third in Sarabande's Woodford Reserve Series in Kentucky Literature. Includes an additional event-budget from Brown-Forman *Richards has extensive contacts at the University of Kentucky *Richards is alumni at University of Florida and University of Washington
Louisville, KY; Lexington, KY; Seattle, WA; Gainesville, FL; Winter Park, FL; Greenville, SC; Asheville, NC
*Total season's marketing budget of $18,000; individual book budget of $3,000 *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to Richards' personal contacts *2000 postcards mailed to contacts in Kentucky, bookstores, libraries, and Richards' personal contacts *Advanced readers's copies available through CBSD white box promotion and Book Sense Advanced Access *Focus on Kentucky media around time of 2006 Derby; author tour in Lexington and Louisville
Susan Starr Richards has spent most of her life raising racehorces in central Kentucky, and writing. She has been a NEAlĂL