Supporting #NHSCharitiesTogether Part 5

This is part 5 of Jack galloping in with a bunch of writer mates to support NHS Charities Together.

We've had some scary authors and some exciting adventures and some hilarity with mind-blowing puns and comic verse. And now here's something new; a novel and a novella that are both eco-thrillers. Till They Dropped and Waiting for Gordo by Sue Knight.

Don't read these in the dark, and if you do and you find you can't sleep, then don't say I didn't warn you.

All the author royalties from all these books plus another five anthologies, goes to NHS Charities Together during the current crisis. That includes my own Horse of a Different Colour the hilarious Cruel and Unusual PunNishments, the full on Blood Red Dust, the crime-ridden Falling into Crime and the amazing adventure, The Boy in Winter's Grasp.

 

THIS LINK HERE will take you to all 12 of the books. And if I don't get round to a part 6 (my hooves get a bit sore with all the typing) then follow the link to find the amazing international award-winning anthhology, The Dummies' Guide to Serial Killing.

Supporting NHSCharitiesTogether Part 4

Part 4 of Jack supporting NHS Charities Together.

Here's another author in this project and in this case, his book is aimed at the same young adult audience as mine is - woo hoo! This author is John Scotcher who has written a really scary fantasy adventure called The Boy in Winter's Grasp. Don't read it in the dark.

You already know, if you've been paying attention to parts 1, 2 and 3, that all the author royalties from this set of books, goes to NHS Charities Together during the current crisis. That includes Horse of a Different Colour the hilarious Cruel and Unusual PunNishments, the full on Blood Red Dust and ...

... and also <drum roll> this amazing twosome that I'm going to get to in part 5: Till They Dropped and Waiting for Gordo.

THIS LINK HERE will take you to all 12 of the books. Call back in for part 5 and maybe even part 6.

Supporting #NHSCharitiesTogether part 3

Here is part 3 of Jack galloping into the fray to support NHS Charities Together.

You already know about the retired doctor who thought this up, Mark P Henderson and the scary science fiction author, Stuart Aken. But there's also a scary crime writer, and with her book, you get three for the price of one. She's Penny Grubb and her book is called Falling into Crime.

All the author royalties from Falling into Crime as well as Horse of a Different Colour, Cruel and Unusual PunNishments, and Blood Red Dust will go to NHS Charities Together during the current crisis.

THIS LINK HERE will take you to all 12 of the books.

Jack wasn't sure if he would do a part 4, but now he definitely will because three more books have joined in. The Boy in Winter's Grasp, Till They Dropped and Waiting for Gordo, so he needs to tell you about those.

Also he's quite keen to investigate one of the other books that is called The Dummies' Guide to Serial Killing, so there might be parts 4, 5, 6 and who knows how many more?

Supporting #NHSCharitiesTogether part 2

Part 2 of Jack galloping into the fray to support NHS Charities Together.

As I said before, we're not the only ones in this. Another author is Stuart Aken. He has written a lot of books ... a WHOLE LOT of books. We guess he writes pretty fast. The book that is in this wonderful scheme is called Blood Red Dust.

This is a great book, but it's pretty full on, if you know what I mean. Definitely one that needs an "Adult themes" warning. It's a great adventure on another planet but it's serious stuff. The perfect birthday present for a grown-up who likes their science fiction to be real. And because it's the first in a set of three, that's two more year's worth of presents sorted if they like it.

You will already know from part 1 that all the author royalties from Horse of a Different Colour and the hilarious Cruel and Unusual PunNishments will go to NHS Charities Together during the current crisis.

But some more books have joined in since I wrote part 1. Now we also have The Boy in Winter's Grasp, Till They Dropped and Waiting for Gordo, and Jack will tell you about those in a moment.

THIS LINK HERE will take you to all 12 of the books, and I will highlight more books in future blogs.

Supporting #NHSCharitiesTogether Part 1

When Melodie was asked if she wanted to join a group who were donating to NHS Charities Together, she and Jack-the-Horse were only too delighted to gallop into the fray and do their bit.

All the author royalties from Horse of a Different Colour will go to NHS Charities Together during the current crisis.

But we're not the only ones in this and it wasn't even our idea (though we rather wish that it was). It was thought up by a very clever author called Mark P Henderson who used to be a doctor and whose books will make you laugh a lot (but beware some adult themes).

In particular, don't miss out on Cruel and Unusual PunNishments - that's not a slip of the hoof, it's the right spelling; you'll see why when you get the book.

Please click THIS LINK HERE to find your way to the heart of this great project.

Wouldn't you think a horse could go fast enough under its own steam?

In fact, the faster the horse, the greater the need to have it go at speeds that no horse could possibly attain under its own steam.

Many an average equine plodder will spend its entire life on its own four feet plodding its way happily from  A to B and back again. That's as long as both A and B have a goodly supply of grass or other good foodstuff. 

But if that equine has a swift turn of foot, if it can gallop for miles at high speed, then suddenly there is a need for it to travel much faster, say 60 mph for hundreds of miles as it is taken in the back of a lorry from racecourse to racecourse. Or if it's exceptional in the speed department then it gets to travel at many hundreds of miles per hour in an airborne stable.

And there is money to be made transporting horses, even when you need to employ six other horses to pull the trailer.

Six horses take a seventh to Doncaster in 1836 - and they don't go by Tardis

The very first horse trailer, so it's said, was built to transport a single horse and was pulled by six horses. That might have a pointless feel to it, but if the story is true then the horse being taken by his six equine mates won a lot of money through being transported in this way to Doncaster.

It's a neat story, summarised HERE.

Jack himself rarely travels by any means other than hoof, but there was one significant journey detailed HERE.