Runaway Alex: Read the First Three Chapters Now

You’ve been asking for it — now she’s here. The prequel to the bestselling Alex & Alexander Series is coming in just a few weeks!

Runaway Alex has been my biggest project of 2020, and I’m so excited to bring you the backstory of this horse racing duo. Alex and Alexander have taken me so many places: to Saratoga for horse racing’s first-ever con, Equestricon; to Keeneland for the finalist party of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award; to Pimlico for a signing on Preakness weekend…the list goes on and on. And I can’t even begin to list the amazing people I have met because of this book series.

So it’s my very great pleasure to bring you the story of how they met, what drew them together, and the first days of the Alex and Alexander story.

Runaway Alex is available for pre-order now and will be available in Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback on December 22, 2020. Click here to pre-order your copy or bookmark it for December 22!

From the blurb:

Horse racing isn’t for nice girls like Alex. She’s been told again and again: stick to horse shows, stick to riding lessons, stick to the relative safety of the suburban equestrian center where she has been a working student since grade school. Even better: go to college!

But Alex can’t shake the conviction that the Thoroughbred life is her destiny.

Can’t wait to get started? Here’s the introduction where we meet Alex for the very first time…

Runaway Alex: Prologue

My feet hit the ground with a little puff of dirt. Grass won’t grow in this spot anymore. My dad, the resident gardener, does everything he can to fix the bare patch outside my window. He doesn’t understand why the thick runners of St. Augustine grass can’t overcome the gray sand. Some day, I won’t have to jump out the window anymore, and then the grass will grow back in a thick, lush, tropical carpet, and he’ll never be able to explain it.

He’ll never know it was because I was running away, every chance I got.

Although at some point, he’ll probably wonder how I got so good at riding horses.

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Runaway Alex: Now at Patreon

Last year I decided a prequel to The Head and Not The Heart was in order. Readers have been asking for one for years, and I kept pushing it away… then suddenly, it felt like the right moment. I had just finished The Hidden Horses of New York, and the bug to continue writing about my horse racing heroines was still strong.

After some false starts, (including one absolutely gorgeous intro paragraph which I re-read to myself, smiling triumphantly, until I realized that it was written in third person and the entire rest of the series is written in first) I finally have an intro chapter I’m ready to share.

Why share now, before the book is even remotely complete? I’ve been loving installment fiction at Patreon for over a year now, and I’ve shared all of my most recent stories there as works in progress since last year’s Forward. Sharing a chapter or three every week of my first draft has been an amazing experience for me – honestly, more writers should try it.

It’s really fun for me to share my ideas as I write them and get feedback right away from my most dedicated readers. And the response from readers tells me it’s fun for you, too!

So if you’re ready to give the introduction to Runaway Alex a read, hop over to my Patreon – no subscription required.

And if you like what you read, you might want to stick around and subscribe to read the complete first drafts of two unpublished novels: the equestrian amateur-owner misadventure Grabbing Mane, and the theme park drama You Must Be This Tall. They’re all available from just $3 per month!

Patreon: Runaway Alex

The prequel to The Head and Not The Heart is now posting in installments at Patreon!

The prequel to The Head and Not The Heart is now posting in installments at Patreon!