About
Donna K.Fitch is a professional illuminator of alternate realities, a writer of thefantastic for the amusement of herself and others since junior high. During herlate career as an academic librarian, she published several scholarly articlesin peer-reviewed journals, and edited her late stepfather’s The Thematic Catalogueof the Musical Works of Johann Pachelbel (Scarecrow Press). She now spendsher working days as a web designer and her Sundays as a worship leader for asmall congregation. She spends her spare time (what little of it she has)writing paranormal fiction. Donna recently published Second Death, aparanormal thriller, a short story "Quantum Critique," and a novella,The Color of Darkness. An avid pen-and-paper roleplaying gamer, Donnahas published several gaming supplements, including Imperial Age: Faeriesfor Adamant Publishing, co-written with Scott Carter. Donna lives in suburbanAlabama with her husband Thomas and three cats: Nala, Alice and Sophie.
Description
<p>The Race for Flugal Farm is the first book in a trilogy that charters the lives and adventures of the inhabitants of the Riding Stables at Flugal Farm.</p><div>Times had been hard for George Flugal and his wife, and this inevitably resulted in him having to sell the majority of the school's horses until he was left its just four: Pogo, Biff, Troy and an ex-racehorse called Chance.</div><div>The horses who along with a young stable hand Rachelle Perkins, a dog named Nugget, a pig called Nigel and an old family friend Uncle Dave, make up the Flugal's extended family.</div><div>When they find themselves facing the possibility of having the farm repossessed by the bank, and bought out by the odious Mr Williams, have to pull together to enter a carriage drive in order to win the prize money and save their way of life.</div>
Story Behind The Book
I conceived of the idea for this book during physical therapy after a fall at work. I had to lie for 20 minutes at a time with electrical stimulation on my injured shoulder. Somehow the image popped in my mind of a Confederate soldier being pursued through the woods as he struggled to get back home to his sick wife. As a librarian, I had access to a wide variety of research sources. I took this kernel of an idea and spun it into this tale of a man whose family is cursed, and the strange visions he experiences that lead him to the truth about his ancestors.
