PLEASE SEE MY NEW WEBSITE www.victoriaeveleigh.co.uk
BOOKS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FROM TORTOISE PUBLISHING.
I HAVE BEEN TAKEN ON BY ORION CHILDREN'S BOOKS, WHO WILL PUBLISH THESE BOOKS NEXT YEAR.
With expert guidance from Orion, I have re-written and updated the stories, and Chris has done some lovely new illustrations for the chapter headings. The new books will have slightly different titles and new covers beautifully illustrated by Angelo Rinaldi.
Please see the Orion web site for further details.
The first two books, Katy's Wild Foal and Katy's Champion Pony, will be published on 2nd February 2012 and can be ordered online from Amazon.
IN ADDITION, A BRAND NEW TRILOGY IS PLANNED FOR 2013!
The Exmoor Pony Centre has bought the remaining stock of Tortoise Publishing books, and they have all four books for sale (although there are only a few copies of Katy's Exmoor Adventures and Katy's Exmoor Friends left). Failing that, the Friends of Exmoor Ponies online shop had some Katy books left the last time I looked, and I've noticed there's quite a few for sale on Ebay!
My name is Victoria Eveleigh (my nickname is Tortie). I love writing stories, and I also write for magazines and other publications, like the Exmoor Magazine and the new Bradt Travel Guide Slow Devon and Exmoor.
Without doubt Victoria Eveleigh is the best contemporary writer of pony stories around. Lovereading4kids
We are very lucky because we live at West Ilkerton Farm, which is a hill farm set amidst the beautiful scenery of Exmoor National Park. We keep Exmoor Horn sheep, North Devon cattle and (by far the most important!) Exmoor ponies. Horses have always played an important part in our lives. When we were children Chris and I both longed for our own ponies, so now we're making up for lost time. There are several horses on the farm, including a herd of Exmoor ponies (pictured right), a couple of hunters called Tempo and Bella, a home-bred young horse called Winaway and an old Exmoor pony called Tinkerbell (Tinks) who is pictured with us in the top right photo. Tinks belongs to our daughter, Sarah. When they were both younger they got up to all sorts of mischief together, which provided a lot of inspiration for the Katy's Exmoor stories. For a recent real-life horse story from West Ilkerton Farm, click here. |
Half our large farmhouse has been converted into a very comfortable holiday cottage which sleeps up to six people. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Children and well-behaved pets are welcome. West Ilkerton is the ideal place for a holiday, especially if you like horses and the countryside. It's next to open moorland, but only four miles from Lynmouth and the North Devon coast.
