Barbara Ellin Fox
Barbara Ellin Fox
Author, Publisher, Teacher
My good friend, and award-winning author, shares her passion for all things horses and writing. Read on…
How I Became a Writer:
Reading is the best foundation for writing, and I have been an avid reader since I was a child. As an adult, I wrote articles for a local horse publication and my first byline was in 1969. From there, I wrote newsletters for clubs, lessons for my horsemanship students, and equestrian curriculum. I was always writing something about horses, including multiple blogs, during the past 24 years. Once, when I recuperated from a horseback riding accident, I wrote a children’s story about a pony who helped a handicapped girl learn to ride, but I never thought of myself as a writer. I figured everyone wrote, and it was perfectly normal for me to write about horses.
In 2013, a story kept occurring in my mind. I didn’t matter whether I was awake or asleep. I worried it was a sign I’d been living in my own head too much, because I couldn’t make the story go away, so I decided to write it down. For several days, words poured from my fingers until I reached the end with a nearly 100,000-word count. From that time, dreaming about the story ceased.
I titled the story Remember Not and spent the next several years improving my skills. In 2015, I retired from teaching riding to write full time. It took several more years before I would call myself an author. Now I have seven stories in various stages of finish. Remember Not and Last Wish were published in June, and two of my short stories will be published on October 3 by Baker Books in a collection of true horse stories titled Second Chance Horses.
My current project is Where the Wild Ones Roam, a story very close to my heart because of my horse, Reno, my wild horse. Here’s the tag line: She can’t stop the government from scraping thousands of horses from the wild, but she can photo-document one herd.
In A Nutshell
Award winning author Barbara Ellin Fox writes clean, contemporary romance for horse lovers. She weaves her extensive background with horses and their people into exciting stories about happily ever after for men, women, and horses. Barbara enjoys playing with her wild horse, Reno. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and horses, close to her two daughters and granddaughters. She loves to have visitors at her websites:
https://BarbaraEllinFox.com or https://TheRidingInstructor.net
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Read Her Awesome Books!
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She believes her rehabilitated show jumper is the ticket to the top for financial stability for herself and her daughter, but someone is out to kill the horse.
June Cowan made a mistake that cost her a competitive career with horses. Now she has her hands full with Hoof ‘n Woof cafe, a food truck, her horse, and two Golden Retrievers, until Michael Bainbridge comes back and her world turns upside down.
I'm thrilled to have 2 stories in the Second Chance Horses collection, including how Reno, the Mustang and I became friends. You’ll want to curl up with a cup of hot chocolate to enjoy these thirty heartwarming stories about second chances. The book will be released by Revell on October 3. If you like to preorder, Baker Book House is offering a deep discount Also available on Amazon.
Welcome Autumn on Saturday, September 23rd. Time for all things pumpkin, apple, and mums. Click HERE for the best pumpkin bread recipe ever.
From my trip to Maine a couple of years ago Loved this trip!
