I actually toyed around with the idea of naming my Percheron horse Bucephalas.

This looks like an awesome book. What a great combo. Horse + History. Have any of you read it?

Conversations with Writers interviews author Katherine Roberts. I am the Great Horse is the epic story of Alexander the Great, told from the point of view of his war-horse Bucephalas. I first came across Alexander while researching my Seven Fabulous Wonders series. He was always there in the background, sometimes a hero, sometimes a villain. I knew I wanted to write a book about him, but didn't want it to be just another Alexander novelisation. The horse's viewpoint seemed obvious since I'm so keen on horses, and Bucephalas' "voice" came to me fully formed. He isn't meek and mild like Black Beauty ... he's a battle-scarred war stallion with attitude!

What sets the book apart from the other things you have written? It is written by a horse [and] yes, this is the first book I have written from the point of view of an animal. My other novels have young protagonists, usually in their teenage years. With Alexander, this would not have worked since his story spans his whole life. So I used the horse to tell the story instead.

Read it all. Books are my absolute worst habit next to horses. I don't have a library, so many of my books are stacked up beneath my very tall four-poster bed. (Or piled on tables in the house, much to my the chagrin of very neat husband who is a former Navy submariner and a lot of what that implies. But I'm not complaining, he does the laundry and all kinds of house chores every week just like I do.) I'm adding this to my amazon.com wish list.