Author Archives: Judith Tarr

About Judith Tarr

Judith Tarr is best known for her historical fantasy. She also writes science fiction, straight historicals, high fantasy, and whatever else strikes her fancy--including Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Doing It Right (published by Book View Cafe). She lives near Tucson, Arizona, where she raises and trains Lipizzan horses.

Alabaster Horses

Posted on May 6, 2013 by
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I try, as an all-around horseblogger, to be as breed-neutral as possible. Every breed of horses has its particular kind of wonderfulness, and its particular purpose, and its band of particular, and passionate, adherents. ((And yes, before the chorus strikes … Continue reading →


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Training and Instinct

Posted on April 29, 2013 by
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In the last Horseblog I talked about a particular stallion and his spring rituals. I’ve since been able to catch a short video of his space-claiming process, which I’ve posted here. It comes complete with roll-roll-roll and rearandpawtheAIR. Watching him … Continue reading →


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A Stallion in Spring

Posted on April 15, 2013 by
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Life on a horse farm is always interesting, but when the farm has all genders represented, it’s just a little bit more interesting in the spring. The English-speaking world has a distinct preference for geldings as riding horses. Entires–mares as … Continue reading →


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Crowdfunding Enters Adolescence

Posted on April 3, 2013 by
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A year ago I was winding up my first crowdfunding campaign, for a YA novel that Book View Cafe published as Living in Threes. I undertook the experiment at the suggestion of others who had gone before me, researched and studied … Continue reading →


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CSI: Horse Farm Edition

Posted on March 18, 2013 by
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It’s that time of year again. Or maybe month. Or week. Or day. There’s a mystery to be solved, involving large hooved herbivores. Sometimes it’s a crisis. Sometimes it’s “Oh crap, not again.” And always it’s a dilemma. Call the … Continue reading →


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Random Hydra Rides Again: Or, Why Better Isn’t Always Good Enough

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

And so the saga continues. There is a new contract. It’s better than the old one. It is not, however, even yet, a good contract. Scrivener’s Error, the publishing blog for true wonks, is not terribly impressed. What it looks … Continue reading →


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Update on the Random Hydra Affair

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

It seems Random House has not only been listening to all the, ahem, feedback (which has reached howling-scream levels in some places), but it has decided to take action. Good action, so far. Big changes in the terrible, horrible, awful, … Continue reading →


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Random Hydra and the Terrible, Horrible, Awful, No-Good, Very Bad Contract

Posted on March 8, 2013 by
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There’s been a great deal of excitement on the interwebs for the past couple of days, as major publisher Random House has announced a wonderful! new! line of ebook imprints for various genres including science fiction (Hydra) and mystery (Alibi). … Continue reading →


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Lessons I’ve Learned from My Horse

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

If there’s one thing horses do for humans, it’s teach them things. Sometimes in the sense of Learning Experiences, i.e. School of Hard Knocks (and Falls and Crashes and Financial Disasters), but many times in the sense that if a … Continue reading →


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Smart Horse Tricks

Posted on February 18, 2013 by

In honor of Mad Scientist Week, we’ve dug deep into the vault at Weird Horse Central, bribed a few guard demons, and emerged with this classic post (complete with comments) about one of our equine Mad Doctors. This one would … Continue reading →


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