For more than 30 years, New York Times best-selling author Rita Mae Brown has captivated readers with tales of sabotage, murder and mystery. After her first book of poetry, The Hand That Cradles The Rock, was published in 1971, Brown began writing novels and hasn’t stopped since.

Australian show jumper Edwina Alexander is preparing for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, and she's agreed to a series of interviews and updates. With one week to go before the show jumping, she fills us in on her latest doings and plans for after the WEG.

Q. What’s happened since Aachen?

Horse: Kazan, gelding
(Voltaire x Espaula)
18-year-old Dutch Warmblood
owned by K.L. Sowers

Location: Erie, Pa.

Accomplishments:

2nd CPEDI3* Ashburn 2010

Kristin Bachman moved across the country from Washington to Virginia in January of 2006 with the goal of pursuing her eventing dreams aboard her off-the-track Thoroughbred Gryffindor. Since then she’s gone through good times and bad—she and “Griffin” were winning the Rolex Kentucky CCI**** in 2007 until she went off course in show jumping and was eliminated.