Horses of the Moon

Judith Tarr has a brand new Kickstarter Project. She is an amazing author (and very good friend), and (in my opinion) a national treasure. You should all check this out (and read all of her books, while you're at it - you won't be disappointed), and help make this a reality!


From the project details:

Horses, desert, magic: A modern woman in the Arizona desert discovers an ancient secret and is drawn into in an old, old battle.

Claire is a renegade medievalist and a professional animal communicator. She lives on an old and mostly abandoned ranch outside of Tucson, Arizona, where she scrapes a living looking after what's left of the ranch and trying to be tactful to clients who come to her for insight into their animals' thoughts and feelings.

Tact is not her strong suit.

One day her friend in Hollywood, whose family owns the ranch, sends her a completely different kind of client: the owners of an international equestrian extravaganza, looking for a place to board a small herd of horses. Claire needs the money, and there are only seven horses. She takes the gig.

Then the weirdness begins. The horses are...different. And something very big and very dangerous is hunting them.

I've set up Horses of the Moon as a series of novellas or very short novels--20-40,000 words each. If the project funds, backers get the first novella, in which Claire discovers the horses' ancient and magical secret. Stretch goals will result in additional novellas, all the way up to a full novel.

At $5000, I'll write the second novella, in which the plot becomes much thicker, and the stakes go up exponentially.

At $6500, backers get three novellas. In number three, everything could potentially blow up, and Claire has her finger on the button.

At $8500, Horses of the Moon becomes a full-fledged novel.

At $10,000, backers at $100 and up will get a signed print edition of the novel, and backers in the lower tiers will be able to purchase the edition at a special backer's price.

If we go higher than that, I'll have even more wonderful things to add to the original rewards.

In the meantime I'll post snippets of the story, and images and experiences from the landscape I (and Claire) live in. Backers get to share our world, with its everyday (as well as fantastical) magic.