Polo House's 'A Year of Daring' - Celebrating 50 years of Daring Do (pt. 7)

Hello, my name is Booke Cypher and Polo House has been gracious enough to put me in charge of this portion of the years festivities.

In case you've been living on the moon for the last three months, this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of of the original release of the first Daring Do novel. Found in a drawer of the Canterlot Royal Library by famed literary agent Hard Cover, the original manuscript for what would become 'Daring and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone' had no author, no initials - no identification of who wrote it what so ever. The engimatic author of those first stories has never been given a name, identified only as Teal Roper after the rope that bound those hand written manuscripts.

Those stories - eighteen, with little sign of letting up - have spawned countless other series, from the AK Yearling's 'Tenochtitlan Cycle', so popular that it has been nicknamed the 'Yearling Canon', to Twilight Velvet's critically aclaimed and award-winning Nachtlicht Saga.

Polo House has decided to celebrate the anniversary of their most famous series with a year-long series of events, kicked off with the release of AK Yearling's latest book, 'The Ring of Destiny' on the same date as the original Sapphire Stone release. The return of Daring Do to Bridleway the following month, along with the release of a special edition set of both the original T. Roper books and Twlight Velvet's series later this month, and publisher events across Equestria have kept the celebrations going and drawng in fans both old and new.

But Polo House hasn't put me in charge of any of that, thank goodness. They've put me in charge of something I actually know something about - books. As a consulting editor, my main job has always been more-or-less fact checking; making sure authors didn't mix up their Hayan deities or get the defeat of Discord wrong by a couple of centuries. As such, Teal Roper's Daring Do series been a favorite - striking the perfect balance between historical accuracy and knowing when to through out historical accuracy for the sake of a story. It has set the benchmark for every Daring Do sense, and becoming a Daring Do author is often considered a badge of honor, to write a series even moreso.

And what many series have in common is The Sapphire Stone - the first foray into Daring's adventures, and the traditional first book for and Daring Do series. While title change - Sapphire Statue is a common variation - and the tales vary wildly from author to author, and the way they tell the tale says a lot about a writers style.

This Summer however, shall mark two major firsts for the Daring Do series. One is that, for the first time any Daring Do story shall be distributed non-coporeally - and not just any story. It is a story both old and new, from the original creator of our beloved adventurer.

A simple story of a Pegasus, her rival, and a sapphire stone.

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About the Editor:

Having served in the Equestrian Navy and holding a degree in Equestrian Antiquities, Booke Cypher is uniquely qualified as an editor of adventure novels. An Earth Pony, he is A graduate of Palomare University, and has worked as a consulting editor for Polo House Publishing on book such as ‘Star Swirl’s Code’, ‘Neapolitan’s Pyramid’, and several of the New Daring Do adventures, staring with ‘Daring Do and the Revenant’s Effigy’.

He currently lives in Canterlot with his two pet Macaws, Dirge and Erebus.