Even with the overwhelming presence of the Internet in our lives, we still yearn for those stolen moments when we can curl up with a book, or take our favorite tome outside and sit under a tree while we turn its pages.

Books will forever be in our lives, even in this electronic age. And who could forget reading about Black Beauty or the ponies of Chincoteague when we were children? Remember how we could hardly wait to read the next chapter?

The team at Horse Expo is offering you a unique literary experience — The Book Corral at the Western States Horse Expo, June 7-9, 2013, where you can meet your favorite author and have him or her autograph your book! There’s always the opportunity to chat with them, too, and learn what inspired them to write their story. Books transform our thinking — they educate and entertain us, in addition to awakening our spirits and thought. Now you can meet the people “behind the scene” of book writing and thank them for sharing their talents.

Come to the Book Corral and get autographed copies of books that will undoubtedly take you on a journey — they may make you cry, laugh, dream, learn — and may even awaken you.

A great philosopher once said, “The book is the axe by which we break open the frozen seas within us.”

Turn off the computer. Leave the laundry behind. Come to Horse Expo Pomona and meet the authors who “break open those frozen seas” in your mind and imagination.

Below are the authors who will be present at the Book Corral this year.