Sweet Success for Darby Karchut

Published September 17, 2020

PPW’s very own Sweet Success Coordinator, Darby Karchut, has a success of her own! Congratulations!

By: Darby Karchut

Well, this feels totally weird to write my own Sweet Success, but, hey, it’s 2020 and weird is the new norm. So here goes…

My latest novel, ON A GOOD HORSE, releases November 10 from Owl Hollow Press. While this is my fifteenth book, it’s my first contemporary standalone middle grade (I usually write MG and YA fantasy series).

ABOUT THE BOOK: A boy and horse could outrun all the sadness of this flat world. If the boy believed, and the horse was swift. The sorrel knew he was fast enough to help the boy. He just needed open grassland and a light hand on the reins. He’d show Ol’ Mr. Grief his heels. Why, he’d run so fast that the wind would peel that sorrow right off the boy. Like a snake shedding its skin. Leaving it caught in the grass and drying up in the sun. Dust to dust. All the horse needed was a chance.

Alex Nash dreams of being a soccer star. Or a graphic artist. Maybe both. But being a cowboy? Nope and no way. Not if it means being anything like his seldom seen father.

Then, out of nowhere, tragedy shatters Alex’s world, and when he thinks life couldn’t sucker-punch him again, it does. He’s forced to live with his father, Roberto Nash, a man he barely knows. Or wants to know.

Until Alex finds out his dad has bought him a peace offering of a sort, one with a red coat, lightning speed, and a fighting spirit. A spitfire of a horse that just might heal Alex’s heart and reunite father and son.

The book is available for purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Kobo, and from independent booksellers worldwide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Darby Karchut is an award-winning author, dreamer, and compulsive dawn greeter. A proud native of New Mexico, she now lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where she runs in blizzards and bikes in lightning storms. When not dodging death by Colorado, Darby is busy wrangling words. Her middle grade novel, DEL TORO MOON (Owl Hollow Press) won the 2019 Colorado Book Award Winner for Juvenile Literature. Visit the author at www.darbykarchut.com or follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.

Sweet Success is coordinated by Darby Karchut who is an award-winning author, dreamer, and compulsive dawn greeter. A proud native of New Mexico, she now lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, where she runs in blizzards and bikes in lightning storms.
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