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Quite a bit, and I can’t take any credit except recognizing a great title when I heard it. The project was originally called Christmas Pony and it was only after it had floated around for a while without any nibbles that my agent asked if I would retitle it. I happened to be in a house full of writers on a freezing island when her email arrived. I read it aloud and my pal Anna Kovel looked at me and said “Pony Confidential.” Boom! It was a genius title that sold the book and shaped its future. Christmas Pony was the story of a pony looking for the one little girl he really loved, twenty-five years after he last saw her. Pony Confidential suggested a mysterious crime as well as a tell-all about pony life. It became not just three-foot-tall Pony’s hilarious critique of everything wrong about humans, but also the story of Penny, his long-lost human, who stands accused of a murder only...[read on]
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