DECK THE STALLS: a holiday anthology for charity!

October 7, 20161 Comment

Cover copyright © 2016 Maggie Dana

Coming in time for the holidays!

DECK THE STALLS

edited by Jessica Burkhart and Natalie Keller Reinert

Get in the holiday spirit with this Christmas themed set of short stories from some of your fave equestrian writers! Featuring Mara Dabrishus, Maggie Dana, Brittney Joy and more! Also, includes a NEW Canterwood Crest holiday short story from best-seller Jessica Burkhart.

Coming soon from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Kobo and iTunes. ALL proceeds benefit Old Friends–a Kentucky charity that cares for retired racehorses.

I’m SUPER excited to bring my Harts a BRAND NEW Canterwood story featuring . . . Sasha and . . . IT’S A SECRET! 🙂 🙂 🙂 You’ll have to read the anthology to find out! Hahaha! But oooooh, am I have fun writing it! *evil smirk*

Love you all!

Canterwood Crest: BORN TO RIDE out October 2016!

September 17, 20161 Comment

OMIGOD!

GUYS!

Amazon put up the box set of Canterwood Crest: BORN TO RIDE (the 20 book box sex) and it looks AMAZING!!!!

Look, look, look!!! 🙂 🙂

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I hope you’re as excited about this as I am!

Here are the details:

Welcome to the Canterwood Crest! All twenty titles in the popular Canterwood Crest series are now available in this collectible boxed set!

When Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, arrive at the elite Canterwood Crest Academy, she has no idea what awaits her behind the wrought-iron gates of the campus. She finds herself dealing with new friends, lots of drama, and tough competition both in and out of the arena.

This collectible boxed set includes: Take the Reins; Chasing Blue; Behind the Bit; Triple Fault;Best Enemies; Little White Lies; Rival Revenge; Home Sweet Drama; City Secrets; Elite Ambition; Scandals, Rumors, Lies; Unfriendly Competition; Chosen; Initiation; Popular;Comeback; Masquerade; Jealousy; Famous; and Home for Christmas.

It’s such a collectible item and so, so beautiful! Check it out here! 🙂 It’s up NOW for pre-order and comes out October 25, 2016.

I apologize for being MIA. I was SUPER sick and then fell into a bad spiral of depression. 😦 But I’m doing much better now and am back to work. I love you all!

xoxo

HEATED draft sneak peek!

March 29, 2015March 29, 20153 Comments

Hi, Harts!

Since you’ve all been SO awesome and patient while I’ve been recovering from surgery and dealing with the news of my little brother’s cancer diagnosis, I wanted to give you a little treat this Sunday. So, here’s an UNEDITED bit of HEATED! Remember, it’s just a draft and things could change. But I thought you’d like to see! 🙂 What do you think?

I lifted my forehead up from the tinted SUV window. White rails flashed by and horses dotted lush green pastures. Some were clustered together under palm trees that provided little sun protection. The SUV slowed and made a gentle right onto a pebble-lined driveway. Our driver, Ken, put down his window and reached to a code box. Balmy Florida air flooded inside the cool SUV. I grinned—it smelled like horses and the beach!

“Omigod, we’re here!” I said.

Next to me, Heather Fox lifted a corner of her purple sleeping mask. “Silver, you screamed that loud enough for the entire city of Ocala to hear.”

Jasmine King, Canterwood Crest Academy’s new-ish transfer from Wellington Prep, had white Beats over her ears and she didn’t even look at Heather or me from her seat in the row behind us.

Unicorn Magic is ALMOST here!

July 18, 20145 Comments

First, I’m FINALLY home! 🙂 I was gone for about a week in Northern KY and Lexington. I attended my first BreyerFest (amazing!!) and did three talks/signings for Breyer, an event at the Lexington Joseph-Beth store and a second JB event at Crestview Hills. Busy, busy, but awesome!

My bestie Bri was there for all of BreyerFest and she jumped into unofficial assistant role and helped me. Without her, I would NOT have made it! Over 150 members of Team Canterwood showed up and I can’t thank you all enough! It was so amazing to meet you all and I love expanding our family!

Something for you guys to brainstorm: Should we keep “Team Canterwood” as our name for readers even though I am coming out with other books and ebooks soon? Or should we have a new name?

If anyone comes up with the PERFECT name, I’ll FaceTime or Skype you for up to an hour! 🙂 🙂

Now, onto unicorn business!

I am sooo happy that we’re getting SO close to the release of UNICORN MAGIC 1: BELLA’S BIRTHDAY UNICORN

and 2: UNICORNMAGIC2cvr WHERE’S GLIMMER?

Especially exciting that they are coming out in limited hardcover and paperback on the same day. My first hardcover!

I love searching for fun/funny unicorn stuff. This cat wearing a unicorn horn made me laugh. I couldn’t even THINK about buying it for my cats just because the cat in the ad is SO unhappy! LOL

My other fave (has been for a long time) are these $99 unicorn heads for your wall. They come in lots of colors–some have glitter horns–and I think they are FAB. I really want one!

Have a great night, guys! xoxo

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#BreyerFest2014 iPhone app!

July 2, 2014Leave a comment

Okay, iPhone people!

If you’re attending BreyerFest, they’ve created a FREE app and it’s ready for download now!

Check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/breyerfest-2014/id877604446?mt=8

My signing/speaking times are on the event page!

*TWO NEW KY dates (Joseph-Beth Lexington & Crestview Hills signings)

June 28, 20141 Comment

Happy, Saturday, people! 🙂

(Grrr. . . I had typed this full post and added images and I hit a wrong key and couldn’t undo the fact that I’d wiped out my entire blog post.)

ANYWAY

I have TWO new awesome days for you to meet me in Kentucky! That gives you a total of FIVE chances to meet me in Kentucky. Yes, I am hijacking your state, residents. 😉

I couldn’t be happier to have my first EVER signings at Joseph-Beth locations! The staff at both Crestview Hills and Lexington have always been supportive of me and of Canterwood. I can’t wait to thank those people in person. I mean, they even created those supercool calendar dates and the widgets.

The Joseph-Beth events will be FREE and you can win a veeeeery awesome prize for coming and doing something!

The deets:

Saturday, July 12th at 2pm

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
161 Lexington Green Circle (at Lexington Green Mall)
Lexington, KY 40503
(859) 273-2911

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Tuesday, July 15th at 7pm

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2785 Dixie Highway
Crestview Hills, KY 41017
Store: (859) 912-7860

Crestview Hills

So, I mentioned a prize, right? 🙂

If you: purchase a Canterwood Crest book the during either one of the events from Joseph-Beth and show it to me, you will get a 20 MINUTE FACETIME or SKYPE chat with me! Buy another book? TWENTY MORE MINUTES!

Buying a book on Saturday or Tuesday is the best way to thank Joseph-Beth for hosting me and it benefits the Canterwood Crest series. How? It keeps it on shelves so that new readers can discover it.

Plus, having tons of sales will help us get noticed by Hollywood! Let’s get Canterwood there!

I’m soooo excited about the possibility of some one on one time with members of Team Canterwood!

Who’s coming?! Please don’t let me speak to one person who came by mistake and has no clue what the heck Canterwood is and how annoyed he is that I talk about lip gloss, horses, boys, and writing!

If you RSVP by leaving a comment on this post OR

Attending Crestview Hills? Leave a YES for CC! here!

Attending Lexington? Leave a YES for CC! here!

Any questions? Ask away! 🙂 I hope to see you at one of these events. We’ll have to come up with a cool name for our group of Kentucky CC fans. Brainstorm, everyone! Discuss in the comments if you like.

Two KY signings: Crestview Hills & Lexington at Joseph-Beth locations

June 25, 20143 Comments

Team Canterwood!! Who lives in or close to Lexington?! I NEED you guys to come to my book signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers! Here are the deets:

Saturday, July 12 at 2pm
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503

It will be at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.

Here’s the official Facebook page! Please add yourself as a guest. 🙂

If you can’t make it on 7/12, I have another signing at a Joseph-Beth location in Crestview Hills on Tuesday, July 15th at 7pm.

Please spread the word to your KY friends! 🙂

Canterwood Breyer Horses!

May 31, 2014Leave a comment

A complete dream come true! Here’s the official press release:

Breyer Animal Creations® to Release Models Based on Canterwood Crest Series

Author Jessica Burkhart to attend BreyerFest 2014!

(PEQUANNOCK, N.J.) May 28, 2014—Breyer joins Sasha Silver and her horse as they begin their adventures on the campus of the elite riding school, Canterwood Crest! Breyer Animal Creations announced today that it is partnering with author Jessica Burkhart to release two book and model horse sets of the popular middle grade series, Canterwood Crest, published by Simon & Schuster. The book and model sets will be at retail in mid June.

“Just like our models, literature has a wonderful way of creating a powerful connection to horses. Readers of Canterwood Crest are just like our fans. They are girls with imagination and creativity who love horses,” said John Serek, Senior Marketing Manager.

“I’m so excited that my books will be inspiring even more girls and horse lovers around the world,” said, author Jessica Burkhart. “Breyer Animal Creations is the perfect partner for the series, since many Canterwood Crest readers already love their model horses! Plus, I can’t wait to meet more Canterwood Crest readers at BreyerFest!”

Canterwood Crest follows the story of Sasha Silver, who is determined to prove she belongs at the elite boarding school in the first book of the series, Take the Reins. The set includes the paperback novel and a Classics® scale model of Charm, Sasha’s horse. The next book in the series, Chasing Blue, continues the story, and is accompanied by the model of Aristocrat, the horse of Sasha’s riding partner, Heather, the school’s haughty “it girl.”

Jessica Burkhart is honored to be attending BreyerFest Silver Jubilee this year as a special guest. Fans can meet their favorite equestrian author up close for daily readings and insights about the Canterwood Crest series. Horse lovers and fans can even get models and books autographed by the popular author herself!

BreyerFest Silver Jubilee is Breyer’s 25th annual festival for fans of the world’s finest equine models and horse lovers, to be held July 11-13, 2014 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky. This fun, family-friendly festival brings more than 10,000 people to Lexington to celebrate the world of horses and the model horses that are inspired by them!

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About Breyer Animal Creations®

Breyer Animal Creations is a division of Reeves International (www.reevesintl.com), a family-owned, NJ-based toy manufacturer and distributor. Breyer, founded in 1950, celebrates the horse and other animals, dedicating itself to the creation of authentic and realistic model horses for play and collecting. Breyer is one of America’s iconic toys and its ‘portrait’ models of horse heroes and animals like Secretariat, Black Beauty, The Black Stallion and Lassie have inspired children of all ages to love animals. Breyer’s partnerships with publishers like Scholastic and Macmillan Children’s Publishing and studios like Universal (Seabiscuit); DreamWorks (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Dreamer), and Touchstone Pictures (Hidalgo) have provided a platform to create new content and play forms for children inspiring a world of imagination and creativity. Visit us atwww.breyerhorses.com or call 800-413-3348 to learn more about the model horse hobby and Breyer Animal Creations.

Contact for more information:

Reeves International (Breyer Animal Creations)
Kathleen Fallon 973-349-1704; Cell:917-592-5185
kfallon@reevesintl.com

Audrey Hix
973-694-5006, x 192
ahix@reevesintl.com

This is a link to the first two horses that will be available in June. As of this moment, they’ve got the horses mixed up. 😉 But don’t worry! They’re on it!

I absolutely cannot wait to sign books and horses at BreyerFest!