THE GIFT HORSE by Leslie Silton is Available Now

As a writing coach, Leslie Silton often edits other people's books. But she enjoys writing her own.

She says, "Writing comes easily to me. I know there are writers who agonize. It's not like that for me. It's like there was this huge pocket of oil underground and very early on I dug a well and it was a gusher and it's been gushing reliably ever since."

A good example is her new novel, The Gift Horse.

"It's a story that will linger with you after you reach the last page," says Hollis George, editorial director of The New Atlantian Library.

In The Gift Horse, we meet Maggie Malone, a first-class painter who just graduated from art school. But every time she tries to get a foot in the door in the gallery scene in New York City something goes wrong. Is she being targeted by unseen forces? Moving to a small artist colony on Long Island, Maggie finally gets the accolades she deserves. But why are people trying to kill Maggie Malone? The thing is: when someone sends you a gift horse, of course you don't want to turn it down, no matter what the history books say.

This sounds like familiar territory for Leslie Silton. With a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art, she knows the art scene.

Leslie is also a published poet and has participated in well over 150 open mic readings in Boston, New York, Miami and Tampa, Florida, Los Angeles, and Paris, France.

Turning her passion for writing into a day job, she now freelances as a book editor and writing coach. Her clients range from an exuberant 23-year-old with a flair for sci-fi ... to a 42-year-old writing young adult stories ... to a 78-year-old finally getting to live the dream of writing a memoir.

In 2011, her short story "The Storm of the Century" appeared in a Sleeping Cat Books anthology and "Out West A-Ways" was included Angie Merriman's anthology, Intertwine. In 2012, British mystery writer Neal James made her Guest Author twice on his website with "The Emperor's Gate" and "In Lewis Carroll Country."

With the publication of The Gift Horse, she joins the swell of new writers bringing their work to the public.

You can tap into Leslie Silton's "gusher" talent for storytelling by downloading your own ebook edition of The Gift Horse for only $3.99 ... less than the cost of a pack of No. 2 pencils. Or you can purchase a 6" x 9" paperback for $14.95.

Simply go to the AbsolutelyAmazingEbooks online bookstore ... or to Amazon.com ... or to Barnes&Noble.com and get your copy.

As literary critic Marcy Birdweather (Marcy's Musings) puts it: "This book is a gift to readers by author Leslie Silton. Her sense of storytelling is right on the mark ..."

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