New Book Series "The A Circuit" by Georgina Bloomberg

[Eye_in_the_Sky]

[QUOTE=ElizabethL;5597962]
So fun for an author to peek into this thread and find out what people “really” think! So true what everyone says about the covers! Mine has been through LOTS of iterations.

Just a heads up that if ya’ll are looking for a TRUE story, my book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation, will be out in September from Ballantine Books.

It tells the true rags-to-riches story of 1950s show jumper Snowman, and his rider Harry de Leyer.

I hope you readers will look out for it when the time comes![/QUOTE]

I will most definitely be getting that book! Will you be available for signings?

[Rel6]

Apparently they handed out the book as a prize for grand champion (I think junior hunters?) at Old Salem. :lol::lol::lol:

[Bogie]

@Eye in the Sky;5594865

Now I’m intrigued - you mean to say that people can build a series by not actually writing them? I do not understand…help me!! It isn’t that I do not believe you - I honestly do not know what to believe - why is this even legal? If your name is on it as the author, but you do not write it, how can it be?

My brain is broken. You broke my brain, Lex!:eek:

If you look at the book you’ll see it’s “co-authored” by Catherine Hapka, who is an established author of children’s books. I suspect that much of the actual writing came from that side of the partnership and the inspiration came from Georgina Bloomberg.

That said, she went to a top private school in NY (Spence) and graduated from NYU. She should be reasonably literate!

[ponyhunter7870]

[QUOTE=Rel6;5607928]
Apparently they handed out the book as a prize for grand champion (I think junior hunters?) at Old Salem. :lol::lol::lol:[/QUOTE]

Which book? Georgina’s?

[Rel6]

[QUOTE=ponyhunter7870;5608076]
Which book? Georgina’s?[/QUOTE]

Yup!

[Tegan]

“He leaned casually on the post-and-board fence of the ring, pretending to watch some random panicky-looking pony rider steer a phlegmatic pinto over a tiny pre-beginner wannabe-hunter course”.

Yikes, I stopped at that sentence. It seems pretty rough.

[SillyHorse]

I stopped halfway through that sentence. :dead:

[dp1092]

[QUOTE=Rel6;5607928]
Apparently they handed out the book as a prize for grand champion (I think junior hunters?) at Old Salem. :lol::lol::lol:[/QUOTE]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA because I wanted to read for fun in high school :lol:

[Kryswyn]

Cover Art

[QUOTE=ElizabethL;5597962]
So fun for an author to peek into this thread and find out what people “really” think! So true what everyone says about the covers! Mine has been through LOTS of iterations.

Just a heads up that if ya’ll are looking for a TRUE story, my book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation, will be out in September from Ballantine Books.

It tells the true rags-to-riches story of 1950s show jumper Snowman, and his rider Harry de Leyer.

I hope you readers will look out for it when the time comes![/QUOTE]

Please tell us you’ve retained right of approval of the cover art so that some bay Arabian doesn’t end up on the cover of your book! :eek::lol:

[rivenoak]

@mvp;5599034

Vanity Fair bothered? Didn’t Vanity Fair used to not be inspid? Or was that only in the 19th century? Or was it trash then, too, and I just don’t know it?

Oh, it can be insipid. Sometimes I call it the People of the intellectual/moneyed/wannabe sets.

But, often, it has at least one edifying article.

[Sunnyhorse]

Those first few pages sound very similar to a satire I wrote for an assignment in high school. I think it is written very immaturely, is that because it is aimed at young teens? It sounds like it was written by a judgemental 14 year old with a chip on her shoulder, not a woman in her late 20s who one would think would be well-educated and well-traveled considering her background.

This. Also (I’m speaking as a professional copyeditor here), the writing is clunky as hell, even without the brand names shoehorned in. That’s not on Georgina; that’s on her co-writer (the one who’s supposed to have the actual ability to turn a sentence in this partnership) and the editorial staff who handled the book. I like Georgina and think that she works her ass off in the saddle, but the book is just painful. I’d have much rather read a memoir.

[ponyhunter7870]

But you would think, since it is a professional writer we’re talking about, and not Georgina, it would be decent, but… I was putting the bad writing on Georgina for some reason, because she’s not a professional, but now I don’t know what to think…
and enough with the product placement! this book will be dated in what, a month? a year?

[alterboy]

[QUOTE=ElizabethL;5597962]
So fun for an author to peek into this thread and find out what people “really” think! So true what everyone says about the covers! Mine has been through LOTS of iterations.

Just a heads up that if ya’ll are looking for a TRUE story, my book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation, will be out in September from Ballantine Books.

It tells the true rags-to-riches story of 1950s show jumper Snowman, and his rider Harry de Leyer.

I hope you readers will look out for it when the time comes![/QUOTE]

How could I have read this already if it hasn’t come out yet? Oh, yeah. I read the real book 40 years ago.

[alterboy]

[QUOTE=Jumpthemoon16;5589175]
Yeah, Destry Spielberg’s daughter shows in SoCal. She owns Rhumba, lucky girl! I don’t think Steve Jobs’ daughter rides. He lives here in NorCal and I think I’d have heard rumors if she was a local rider ;)[/QUOTE]

Steve Jobs daughter rides with Nancy Hey in Palo Alto

[showjumpers66]

I think what looks like a bridle is actually an in-hand headstall. You see them from time to time at breed inspections and in-hand shows, but mostly on the Saddlebred circuit. They add a chin strap to complete it if the chain is not used. I think you are seeing the lead attached to the loop that the chain typically runs through. http://www.spotlightarabians.com/tivoli.php5 Sorry! Did not read all the way through and just that someone else posted to this effect.

[QUOTE=FineAlready;5588375]
Oh my. Now that is just sad. The lead shank appears to be clipped to…the end of the cheek piece where the bit normally attaches? It’s a pity, really, because the horse is actually VERY well done…a little research on the part of the artist would have gone a long way here.[/QUOTE]

[InWhyCee_Redux]

[QUOTE=alterboy;5611762]
How could I have read this already if it hasn’t come out yet? Oh, yeah. I read the real book 40 years ago.[/QUOTE]

Which “real” book? The one that was published in 1962, or the other one that was published in 1962? I never thought I’d say this, but Play Nice. Laura Hillenbrand didn’t write the first book on Seabiscuit either.

[remyman55]

so i was at a horse show and mark leone was reading his paper next to me and say hey georgina wrote a book! and he read me the synopisis then goes, “so she basically wrote about her life than”. lol:lol:

[Rel6]

[QUOTE=remyman55;5612097]
so i was at a horse show and mark leone was reading his paper next to me and say hey georgina wrote a book! and he read me the synopisis then goes, “so she basically wrote about her life than”. lol:lol:[/QUOTE]

:lol::lol::lol:

[InWhyCee_Redux]

[QUOTE=remyman55;5612097]
so i was at a horse show and mark leone was reading his paper next to me and say hey georgina wrote a book! and he read me the synopisis then goes, “so she basically wrote about her life than”. lol:lol:[/QUOTE]

Ahhh, the Leone Brothers. I remember the girls and I making a collage of their pics to decorate the tack-room at 4-H Horse Camp…

[horsegal301]

[QUOTE=Bogie;5608064]

That said, she went to a top private school in NY (Spence) and graduated from NYU. She should be reasonably literate![/QUOTE]

Who, Georgina? Money can buy more than just the best trainers and horses, you know. Any University or College jumps at the chance of having a big name person attending their school. It’s all in the PR.