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name: Barbara Van Tuyl
about: Holding a trainer’s license since 1972, Barbara Van Tuyl had never thought to be a writer when she grew up. Inspired by books like the Black Stallion, her big break came when a friend passed on a fiction piece and gave it to her. Asked to create an outline, she decided to create a second one to show that a series could be viable. From those two outlines came the first two books in what became the Bonnie series: The Sweet Running Filly and A Horse Called Bonnie.Books one through five were published in the early 70s. Almost 30 years later, Barbara has penned "A Special Kind of Courage", the sixth in the Bonnie series being released in October 2013. Holding a trainer’s license since 1972, Barbara Van Tuyl had never thought to be a writer when she grew up. Inspired by books like the Black Stallion, her big break came when a friend passed on a fiction piece and gave it to her. Asked to create an outline, she decided to create a second one to show that a series could be viable. From those two outlines came the first two books in what became the Bonnie series: The Sweet Running Filly and A Horse Called Bonnie.Books one through five were published in the early 70s. Almost 30 years later, Barbara has penned "A Special Kind of Courage", the sixth in the Bonnie series being released in October 2013. ...more