Lavay Byrd
Well, it's kind of a long story.
I had always loved horses ever since I was a little girl (ask my Mom. She'll tell ya!), and I enjoyed reading books about them. I was reading one of the "Spirit of the Cimarron" book series by Kathleen Duey, I noticed that there weren't enough books out there written in the point of view of the horse, like Black Beauty. So, I decided to write my own stories.
One day, in 9th grade English class, we were assigned to create a project based on the William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Because of my life-long passion for writing, drawing, and horses, I had an idea to add an "extra credit assignment" to my final exam: a story that is similar to Lord of the Flies but with a twist. In the allegory, a group of girls, between the ages of nine and sixteen, become stranded on a mysterious island, where they have an encounter with two immortal horses: the Light Horse, who represents all that is good; and the evil Dark Horse. Though I didn't finish it by the end of the semester, I decided to turn my project into my very first book, entitling it "Light Horse, Dark Horse".
After getting so many praises from my story, I quickly started to make a sequel, which is supposed to depict how the Light Horse first came to the human world as a foal to save both mankind and animals from the Dark Horse. After reviewing it with my family, my Mom gave me a brilliant, God-given idea: "Why not use just horses?"
Soon, after spending nearly three long years of drawing, writing, reviewing, and proofing; the first book of the Light Horse, Dark Horse series, The Miraculous Birth, was finally published in January 31, 2011. Two years later, I made a decision to fully remodel the series so that kids would understand and enjoy the stories, revising and republishing "The Miraculous Birth" on October 14, 2013.
I had always loved horses ever since I was a little girl (ask my Mom. She'll tell ya!), and I enjoyed reading books about them. I was reading one of the "Spirit of the Cimarron" book series by Kathleen Duey, I noticed that there weren't enough books out there written in the point of view of the horse, like Black Beauty. So, I decided to write my own stories.
One day, in 9th grade English class, we were assigned to create a project based on the William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Because of my life-long passion for writing, drawing, and horses, I had an idea to add an "extra credit assignment" to my final exam: a story that is similar to Lord of the Flies but with a twist. In the allegory, a group of girls, between the ages of nine and sixteen, become stranded on a mysterious island, where they have an encounter with two immortal horses: the Light Horse, who represents all that is good; and the evil Dark Horse. Though I didn't finish it by the end of the semester, I decided to turn my project into my very first book, entitling it "Light Horse, Dark Horse".
After getting so many praises from my story, I quickly started to make a sequel, which is supposed to depict how the Light Horse first came to the human world as a foal to save both mankind and animals from the Dark Horse. After reviewing it with my family, my Mom gave me a brilliant, God-given idea: "Why not use just horses?"
Soon, after spending nearly three long years of drawing, writing, reviewing, and proofing; the first book of the Light Horse, Dark Horse series, The Miraculous Birth, was finally published in January 31, 2011. Two years later, I made a decision to fully remodel the series so that kids would understand and enjoy the stories, revising and republishing "The Miraculous Birth" on October 14, 2013.
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