Love Horses? Visit the For The Love Of Horses Book Fair!! #horses #books #bookfair #horsebooks #fiction

 

Love horses?  Kick up your heels and visit the virtual For the Love of Horses Book Fair and find your next fabulous read!! 🐎 📚

While there are many fiction genres in the fair - mystery, sweet romance, suspense, cozy, historical, and young adult - all these books have one thing in common...significant horse themes, whether it be the setting, certain scenes, or the whole story!!  

I love horses and grew up riding, and we boarded a horse at my mom's best friend's farm in Maryland, where I grew up.  So while I now set most of my novels on Cape Cod, where I have lived now for 25 years, one of my novels, Divine Fall, is set in horse country in Maryland.  You can find Divine Fall, a young adult paranormal romance perfect for the approaching autumn season, in the book fair...and it's only 99 pennies!!  I dedicated this book to my late mom, and the farm in the book's setting is based on that same farm where we boarded our beloved Tully.  

The other novel of mine in the fair is a ghost mystery + romantic suspense set on a farm on the Cape.  The Haunting of Hillwood Farm has won numerous awards and hit the USA TODAY Bestseller list as part of a special collection of novels.

Please check out the fair here...happy horse-themed reading!

**FOR THE LOVE OF HORSES BOOK FAIR**

This is my sister's horse, Sansa!!
Our horse growing up, Tully, was also white/gray

The Curse of #TheExorcist ~ #Paranormal Postings #Halloween #horror

I often blog about haunted places and spooky themes, since I write a lot of ghost mysteries into my novels.  Not surprisingly, I love October, because I’m a big fan of everything paranormal—books and movies especially. While I do read horror, the paranormal novels I write aren’t designed to fit into that genre. I aim to create mysterious, spooky, and suspenseful (but not gory) ghost stories. Thankfully, many readers have claimed certain scenes sent chills down their spine, which is exactly the kind of reaction I intend (and I include romance as well to heat things back up). Many have also said they stayed up all night reading one of my books--hopefully that was because they couldn’t put it down, and not because they were afraid to turn off the lights!

The scariest book I ever read was The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty, in part because it’s based on a true incident that happened in the DC area, not far from where I grew up (the actual exorcism was performed on a young boy from Cottage City, MD). Part of the movie was filmed in Georgetown (I’ve visited the so-called “Exorcist steps” many times...it’s definitely creepy), and I think the film is even scarier than the book. The terrifying visuals were heightened by the unconventional methods director William Friedkin used to get real reactions from the actors—slapping one actor in the face and firing a gun behind another are just two examples.

The steps from the film...located in Georgetown, DC

Then of course there is the so-called curse surrounding the film. In the early 1970s, not everything was documented for reality TV, so there are conflicting accounts of the strange occurrences. It’s said that between 4 and 9 people associated with the film died during filming or shortly after the release. An unexplained fire destroyed the MacNeil residence movie set—with the odd exception of the character Regan’s bedroom—causing a six-week delay in production. At the Italian premier of the film, a 400-year-old cross near the theater was destroyed by a bolt of lightning.

My sister loves this movie too...check out
her Halloween costume from last year!
Can't wait to see what she comes up with
this year  :0

Re-watching The Exorcist is one of my favorite Halloween traditions, and the movie is on my list of five books and films that scared me...and I don't scare easily when it comes to this stuff usually!  If you're looking for an adrenaline fix, check out my list here.  I also have posts of my favorite ghost movies and ghost novels.  And if you enjoy steamy romance mixed with spooky suspense and mysterious hauntings, I hope you'll check out some of my books!  Happy Haunted Reading.

My List of The Best Romantic Ghost Stories is on #Book Shepherd! #ghosts #romance #bookshepherd #ghoststory #books_worth_reading

 

Which of these fabulous books have you read?

So exciting! All of my books have a romantic piece, but many are mixed with spooky ghost mysteries.  It's my favorite combo to read, too...and I was thrilled to be invited to make a list of my Top 5 for Book Shepherd!

Check out my list here: The Best Romantic Ghost Stories by Kathryn Knight.  And I hope you'll take a look at my novels as well if you enjoy romance spiked with spooky suspense!

A #1 Amazon Bestseller!