Carrie Seim: Loving and Writing About Horses
Saturday, October 11 2025
By Kimberly Gatto
Portraits by Lindsey Long
Carrie Seim has loved horses and books for as long as she can remember.
Decades later, Carrie has parlayed both of those passions into a career as a successful equestrian author. Her debut … [Read more]
- Published in General, Weekly Feature
Natalie Keller Reinert: Writing Ambition to an Eventing Empire
Monday, September 22 2025
By Susan Friedland
Portraits by Kacy Brown
Natalie Keller Reinert claims she has always been a horse girl. The fiction author from Florida, who has written dozens of books set in the Ocala horse world—with two series now in pre-production … [Read more]
- Published in General, Weekly Feature
Linda Drattell: Humor From Manure and Healing Out of Hearing Loss
Monday, May 26 2025
By Britney Grover
Author Linda Drattell has found inspiration in and made the most of life experiences others might dismiss or look down upon—including literally shoveling manure. Her poetry, which has earned awards and recognition from associations such as Reader … [Read more]
- Published in General, Weekly Feature
Karen Borne & Borné Saddlery: Thriving and the Saddle
Friday, May 23 2025
By Britney Grover
Karen Borne was first introduced to horses as a child growing up in Dallas, Texas, through her aunt and uncle, who owned and showed cutting horses. Little did she know then that horses would shape her career … [Read more]
- Published in General, Weekly Feature
Debby Buck DeJonge: Writing Saved a Riding Life
Wednesday, January 08 2025
Horses are in Debby Buck DeJonge’s blood. “My grandfather was in the Danish cavalry and migrated to America, where he became a famous racehorse trainer, even counting War Horse’s daughter as one of his steeds,” she said. Since Debby’s first … [Read more]
- Published in General, Sidelines Feature, Weekly Feature
Ivanel Johnson: Writing Lemons Into Lemonade
Thursday, November 14 2024
By Britney Grover
Ivanel “Julie” Johnson has always managed to juggle multiple careers, as an eventing coach and competitor, high school teacher and author. She’s also always managed an increasingly debilitating medical condition. Despite her spondylolisthesis, or spinal displacement, Julie … [Read more]
- Published in General
Rita Mae Brown: Books, Breakfast and the Bravery of the Foxhunt!
Monday, December 02 2013
By Doris Degner-Foster
Rita Mae Brown is well known for the entertaining novels she writes where household pets and other animals take an active part in solving the murder mystery. She is also an advocate for equal rights and … [Read more]
- Published in Sidelines Spotlight
Good Food Hunting: At Blenheim International Horse Trials
Wednesday, September 11 2013
By Kat Wojtylak While everyone set their sites to Burghley last week, I set my sites to Blenheim . Quite possibly because I got to go last year, and partly because I feel it’s the underdog of England’s events happening in September. While not as prestigious in terms of rankings, it still has a lot to boast of in terms of competitive spirit, entertainment, heritage….and food
- Published in What's Happenin', Z-Blogs
The Kits Can’t Be Far Behind
Sunday, March 31 2013
Overnight the moon rose and the temperature dropped hourly to almost freezing and then, as the waning moon set, pink light appeared at the margins of this morning. Spring has already officially begun over a week ago but it is still cold in the morning
Author Linda Kendall McLendon on her new book Unintended Lies
Monday, February 18 2013
If you like books with a horse theme, check out Unintended Lies by Author Linda Kendall McLendon! She tells us all about it here.
- Published in Sidelines TV
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