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Monday, December 31, 2012
New Year's Eve : Police Horses in Las Vegas   Dear Readers, It will be a crazy New Year's Eve for Las Vegas police horses. Tonight, they'll patrol the noisy neon world of the Vegas strip. You can read about it & see some cool photos here. When I was researching WILD HONEY for the Phantom Stallion series, the Reno Mounted Police Unit let me observe police horse training.  I watched equine officers keep cool walking through debris gunfire (by blank guns). I saw them fight their instinct to rear when pretend bad guys grappled for the mounted
officer's weapon. Most exciting was the "final exam." Police explorer scouts (mostly teens), made noise, loosed balloons and smoke while the horses did drills in a DARK arena! HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Sunday, December 30, 2012 Be Heard for the Herds
Since Governor Brian Sandoval can't hear us, we are taking our request for conversation closer to his Carson City office. You have 5 days to plan to join our peaceful protest:Friday, January 4, 201211 a.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Legislative Building (Hwy 395 East) in downtown Carson City Dress warmly! If you absolutely cannot join us, email click here to Email Governor Sandoval The next auction is January 9, 2013; There is no time to lose.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 International Horse Lovers!
I want to thank readers from TEN countries who've already read PHANTOM STALLION, Protector -- Parts 1 and 2. Try to guess WHICH 10 countries before you scroll down this page for the answers! Best, Terri
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Monday, December 24, 2012 Cast of PHANTOM STALLION novella Dear Readers, Some of you get to open ONE Christmas gift on Christmas Eve, instead of waiting until tomorrow. So, I'll answer one question I'm getting from a lot of you. Which PHANTOM STALLION characters will return in the novella that begins HERE tomorrow? Horses: the Phantom, Dark Sunshine, Ace, Tempest & more Humans: Sam, Jake & other Ely brothers including a first look at Seth* , Brynna, Gram, Linc Slocum (from prison!) and more.
Holiday Hugs to you, Sage, Ghost Dancer &Terri * from my notes: Seth Ely – paralegal, long braid and glasses is going to college at Great Basin College studying tribal law Labels: ghost dancer, Phantom Stallion novella, Phantom the Protector, Sage Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 8:54 AM 0 comments
Sunday, December 23, 2012 Reading on the Clothesline  Gabriel Pacheco, artist What does this painting say to you?Labels: creativity, Muse on the Run, reading Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 11:15 AM 0 comments
Saturday, December 22, 2012 Wild Horses Prove Themselves again and again and ...  Nevada Magazine's first issue was published in 1936. Guess which issue has sold more copies than any other ever? One with a wild stallion on the cover! Not only that, since it came out in 2009 this NEVADA MAGAZINE article with photos by Mark Terrel has been the most read: http://www.nevadamagazine.com/issues/read/wild_horses/. That holds true through today. NEVADA MAGAZINE is published in cooperation with the state department of tourism and we keep hoping that Nevada will see that wild horses are a treasure. Keep your eyes open. Soon I will post an updated survey to see how YOU feel about wild horse tourism. Happy Saturday, Terri Labels: Mark Terrell, Nevada Magazine, wild horse tourism Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 9:12 AM 0 comments
Friday, December 21, 2012 Just brightening up your Friday night  Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 9:36 PM 0 comments
She Stood Up for Herself & Became an Artist  Terry does commissioned drawings of show dogs and horses. One of her oil paintings hangs in a California library and her ceramic dogs have been purchased by dog show judges. For Christmas, Terry is making pictures of butterflies using rose petals from her peppermint-colored roses. How did she become so skilled in drawing horses? "I guess my skill drawing horses was developed because of a classmate who was very critical ," said Terry. " I tried to draw a horse that she could not fault." Labels: Phantom Stallion art, Terry Rohslan Permalink to this blog post Posted by Terri Farley @ 12:30 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 PHANTOM STALLION novella coming Christmas Day |
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| The real Phantom Stallion - photo by Melissa Farlow |
By Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette Journal
It seems like poetic justice -- or at least good karma -- that novelist and wild-horse advocate Terri Farley ended up living in Nevada.As a girl in Southern California, the future author of the 24-book Phantom Stallion young-adult book series learned to ride despite a severe allergy to horses. By the time she was 8 years old, she was writing about horses, pecking out her first story -- about a wild pinto named Pagan -- on her grandmother's Selectric typewriter.As an adult, she moved to Reno with her husband, journalist Cory Farley, where one of the first people she met was Wildhorse Annie -- real name Velma Johnston -- a fellow horse advocate who died in 1977.
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| San Francisco rally for mustangs, photo by Anne Novak |
Today, Farley continues to write and to champion wild horses. Her efforts include being a party in a lawsuit filed last year, but later dismissed, aimed at stopping a U.S. Bureau of Land Management practice of rounding up wild horses and moving them to long-term holding facilities.
Where did your love of horses come from?
Part of it was, I lived in suburban Los Angeles. I did not get around horses often. I was practically terminally allergic to things with hair. Once a month, my parents took me to a stable. Between the hay, dust and the horses, I would end up in the emergency room. They (my parents) would suffer with me. I outgrew that, and began to hang around horses more.
What came first, the advocacy for wild horses or the book series?
I'd always cared for wild horses "» so one grew out of the other. When we moved here, I realized this was the wild horse capital of the world. They were not that far away; I could actually go out and see them. When writing romance stories, there were threads of the horse subplots. My agent said, "That's what you should write about. You can go see them, then you can write about them as something symbolic."
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| Young readers / Horse Expo, Sacramento CA |
I understand the your fans keep in contact with you on wild horse issues through mail, email and other electronic media.
I love it. I guess if I had a legacy in books and horses, it would not be a bad one. They (young readers) are ready to take action. I have a blog, a newsletter, 3,000 are on it. "» Kids can see they don't have to just stand and complain. They can do something. If that becomes a habit (for them), that will make me very happy.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Writers' Dream Benefits Wild Horses
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| At the Wild Horse Sanctuary, horses roam in family herds |
Have you always wanted to write?
Begin your book on the ride of a lifetime
June 15-16: Writin' Riders, With Author Terri Farley
Swing into the saddle for this two-day ride and learn to think, brainstorm and create in the company of wild horses and Terri Farley, the best selling author of the PHANTOM STALLION and WILD HORSE ISLAND series for HarperCollins. A one of a kind opportunity for writers in a one of a kind setting! See flier for additional details. Cost: $475 |
| There's a good chance we'll see Scar (the dark horse), a stallion known for standing his ground. |
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| Lunch on the trail |
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| Murphy, a veteran Wild Horse Sanctuary saddle horse |
Can you imagine a better holiday gift?
In December 2013 you won't hear: "Gee, I can't remember what you gave me last year."
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Kind Calling to Kind
Dear Readers,
There is something sweet, but primitive about this photo.
In my imagination, the humans and horses assumed noon-threatening shapes like this in their first encounters.
In fact, this photo was shot just days ago by Sherry Thelma Snider.
Bo Rodriguez (on the left) explains that this is one of the Hidden Valley wild horses being baited into neighborhoods for capture by the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
This stallion has avoid capture & removal to a slaughter auction at the Fallon Livestock Exchange.
" I love watching him," Bo says. "He seems to have taken an interest in me, and judging from his scars he knows how to take care of business."
Labels: bait traps, Bo Rodriguez, fallon livestock exchange, Hidden Valley horses, Sherry Thelma Snider
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
BATHROBE CRUSADER
BATHROBE
CRUSADER: Speak Up For What's Right without leaving home
HOW TO SET UP A GOOGLE ALERT & GET WILD HORSE NEWS
It can be crazy keeping up with wild horse news, but you can do it and speak out for what’s right, from your couch.
How? Use a Google Alert.
I am no techie & I set it up in 2 minutes. Now, I get daily email about wild horses all over the world, and it's totally
free.
Step One: Go to Google.com/alerts or use
this link http://www.google.com/alerts
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Step Two: Fill out the form,
The form asks some questions:
Search Query: Here's where you type in WILD HORSES
Type – I set my alerts for all types of alerts – news,
blogs, books, etc.
How often – Once per day is enough for most people
Volume – This isn't loudness; it means how many responses
you want to see. I choose "Only the best results," otherwise you
often get the same story over and over again.
Step Three: Click the "Create
Alert" button
When you get your Google Alerts, click on a headline, go read the story. If there's a
place to comment, do it.
THIS IS ALL ABOUT PEER PRESSURE. Your opinion influences
other people. They won't know if you're 11 years old or 87d. They
won't know if you're a student or a veterinarian – unless you think those facts
are important to mention.
Here's an easy formula for response I borrowed from friend, Suzanne Morgan Williams:
a) Describe your personal connection to the issue in 2 -3
sentences
b) Give 3 facts about the issue – 1 – 3 sentences
c) Tell your reader what action you want him/her to take – 1
sentence
That's it! In 3 – 6 sentences, you will have explained why
you want to share the world with wild horses. Save your response as a document & use it over again as sort of a letter-in-waiting.
Here's mine as an example:
As the author of the PHANTOM STALLION book series about
Nevada's wild horses, I've spent much of my adulthood in the West's wild
places. I hear from readers around the world who see the mustangs as the
majority of Americans do: wild horses are a treasure far greater than the
minerals underground. The BLM has sided with big business and big politics,
against the American people. Costly helicopter round-ups cause the death and
dislocation of wild horses and greed rules the range. It's up to you to stop
the round-ups, before the thunder of wild hooves is silenced forever.
Feel free to borrow all except the part
where you say you're me.
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