Storm is out now!
It always seems to be ages to the next Pony Club Secrets book but finally Storm and the Silver Bridle is out. Actually some of you who pre-ordered it got it early and Stacy even got an email from someone who read it 2 days before the actual release date! Stacy is now busy putting the finishing touches to Fortune and the Golden Trophy, due out in the UK in June and busy writing Victory and the All-Stars Academy, but she said she's really happy Storm is out because it is definitely one of her favourites...
UPDATE: Cool Storm offer! If you want to order Storm online in the UK our friends at Luv Ponies are giving away a cute Pony Club Secrets bookplate with every copy (while stocks last). Click here for more info at Luv Ponies!
EXTRA UPDATE as of June 1, 2009: Storm is now out in New Zealand too! Best bookshops to get it from are Dymocks and PaperPlus...
Posted by Heidi on 21/04/09
Bargain Pony Club Secrets
If you live in New Zealand, the bookstore Paper Plus is selling all Pony Club Secrets books for just $9.99 until Sunday! (except Flame And Victory of course, they're not out yet!) Anyway that's 30% off - so now's the time to get the next book for your collection! Check it out at your nearest Paper Plus store.
Posted by Heidi on 14/07/09
New competition!
Here's your chance to name one of the Pony Club Secrets horses!
All you have to do is NAME and DESCRIBE a very special horse, answer the Pony Club Secrets skill question and email it all in to us. In the middle of August 2009, Stacy will choose the winner and include their horse in her new book Flame and The Rebel Riders! Not only that, the winner will also get a thank you credit with their name at the front of the book and a signed copy of their own!
In Flame and the Rebel Riders, Issie is working at a showjumping stables. Your challenge is to name one of the star showjumpers PLUS you get to decide what your star horse looks like!
How to enter
1. Remember, you can ONLY enter once and you can send in a maximum of THREE horse names and THREE descriptions (all on the same email please).
2. Describe the horse's colour and remember to give lots of details (such as white socks or a star) too!
3. REMEMBER - you also need to answer this Pony Club Secrets skill question: In Comet and the Champion’s Cup, which pupil at Blackthorn Farm riding school rides Julian the pony?
4. Make sure you have read the competition terms and conditions.
Send in your ideas by email to: hoofbeats@paradise.net.nz
What do you win?
Stacy will choose one winner and the winner's horse name and description will be used in Flame and The Rebel Riders, to be published in the UK in February 2010.
The winner will also be thanked and have her name printed on the credits page of the book (on the page that carries the date of publishing & other details) PLUS receive her own copy of Flame and the Rebel Riders personally signed & dedicated by Stacy.
Ok, good luck and happy horse naming!
Terms & conditions:
1. Information published by stacygregg.co.uk on how to enter forms part of these terms and conditions of entry.
2. Only one entry per person.
3. Competition begins June 23, 2009 and ends at 2400 GMT on July 31, 2009. Winner announced approx. August 15, 2009.
4. By entering you acknowledge that all copyright over your entry passes over to Stacy Gregg.
5. There is no cash prize or any other remuneration associated with this competition.
6. The competition is open to open to readers in any country.
7. Entry to the competition is achieved by answering the skill question correctly.
8. Only completed entries will be entered into the prize draw.
9. The judge’s decisions on all matters regarding the competition are final and no correspondence will be entered into. Stacygregg.co.uk and Stacy Gregg reserve the right to extend, change or terminate this competition at any time.
10. The prize is not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be taken as cash.
11. Stacygregg.co.uk and Stacy Gregg will not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) or for any personal injury suffered or sustained in connection with the competition or prizes except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law.
12. This competition is operated under New Zealand law.
13. No responsibility will be taken for lost, late or misdirected entries.
14. By entering the competition you accept all these terms and conditions.
Posted by Heidi on 24/06/09
Stacy's blog - latest entry!
June 29, 2009
There was much excitement at my daughter’s riding lesson this week. The girls were in the dressage arena… to read Stacy's latest blog click here
Check out all the latest books
We thought you might like a super-sneak preview of the covers of the upcoming books in the series so here they are! If you haven’t read the first two books in the series then you can get them both at once when Mystic & Blaze comes out in book stores later this month – it’s a totally huge two-books-in-one! The new book Fortune and the Golden Trophy is out in June and Victory and the All-Stars Academy is out in October this year. Flame and the Rebel Riders will be in stores in 2010…(click pics for more)
...other bits & bobs
• Check out the new links on the side of this page - to pony games, puzzles, the new Readers' Pets page and more...
• Check out the Pony Club Secrets Forum. Want to talk about Pony Club Secrets!? The Pony Club Secrets forum is the place to do it. Note - you need to be 13 or over to use the forum. Our forum is a safe, closely monitored environment and any threads not relating to Pony Club Secrets will be automatically deleted.
• Something's puzzling us - oh yes, now we've figured it out - but can you? Have a go at our Mystic and the Midnight Ride jigsaw puzzle here.
• Remember our poll to choose your favourite Chevalier Point pony? Well here are the final results: Blaze stormed home with 37.2%, followed by Mystic with 23.1%, then Destiny on 19.3%. Stardust had 8.8%, Goldrush 3.4%, Coco 2.7%, Toby 2.4%, Paris 1.6% and Nicole 1.5%. And that's from an amazing 1079 votes! Look out for a new poll in the next few days…
Ok, that's all the news for now ... gotta gallop!
Updated by Heidi - PCS head stablehand - on June 14, 2009
Oh, and don't forget the (other) latest books…
Comet and the Champion's Cup and Issie and the Christmas Pony are two of the most popular books in the Pony Club Secrets series ever and they're in stores now!
In Comet and the Champion's Cup, Issie’s aunt Hester desperately needs expert help to run her summer riding school - the perfect way for Issie and her pony-club friends to spend the holidays! Issie gets to know cheeky Comet, a superstar showjumper. But can she train him in time for the Horse of the Year show?
Want to know how it all started? In Issie and the Christmas Pony we go back in time to the moment when Issie first met Mystic. It's an exciting Christmas with Issie as she gets to know the gang at Chevalier Point.
If you want to read an extract from the latest books or any of the others in the Pony Club Secrets series, just click here to go to The Books page.
We've got a soft spot for Secrets our Pony Club Secrets pony. Oh and his mane and tail get really messy so they have to be brushed all the time - have a go...
Great book links
UK Children's Books - A directory of the online world of UK children's books with links to authors, illustrators, publishers, organisations, review sites, booksellers and many ...
Seven Stories - The Centre for Children's Books, features children's books, children's writers and illustrators, children's writing, illustration, exhibitions, events ...
Children's Book Circle - The Children's Book Circle welcomes everyone with a professional interest in children's books - publishers, librarians, authors, illustrators, teachers, ...
www.childrensbookcircle.org.uk
BRAW - Books, Reading & Writing (The Scottish Children's Book Network)
Four Corner House - A Chapter a Week!
National Centre for Research into Children's Literature (including IBBY)
National Centre for Language and Literacy (NCLL)
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Welsh Books Council (Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru)
www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk
