Published Works

The Carrying

A fictional novel by Erica Canevari

Release: July 2026

Book Overview:

“A woman. A horse. Three weeks alone in the Marble Mountains backcountry wilderness. Nora Calloway rides in carrying more than her packs - the grief of a husband lost to a long illness, a career she walked away from, a self she can barely remember. She is looking for connection. Deep in a sheltered valley, something ancient and watchful reaches toward her from the tree line - not the forest, something of it. Something tall and dark and ancient and mythical. Something that recognizes in her the same grief it has carried alone for a very long time.”

The Carrying: A Story of Loss, Untamed Wilderness, and What Carries You Through.

162 pages

Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle Edition

The Carrying is available on Amazon.com

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Take The Lead: A Professional Guide for the New Farrier

Release date: September 2026

Book Overview:

“You graduated from farrier school with skilled hands and a willing heart. You know how to read a hoof, shape a shoe, and set a nail. What nobody taught you is everything else.

How to price your work so the math actually sustains you. How to hire the clients you want and gracefully release the ones you don't. How to build a schedule that keeps you sane, a business that keeps you solvent, and a body that keeps you working for decades.

Take the Lead is the book that farrier school didn't come with. The real-world manual that puts all of your newly found skills into practical form. This book aims to be the golden key that turns your education into a money-making operation.

Drawing on more than fifteen years of professional experience in the barns and backcountry of Northern California, Erica Canevari delivers the practical wisdom, hard-won lessons, and straight talk that new farriers need and rarely receive. From applying for your business license, to setting boundaries with difficult clients. From the cancellation policy that protects your time to the stretching practice that protects your spine. From the first phone call with a new client to the long, reflective work of planning your eventual transition out of the saddle.

At the center of every chapter is the horse — the reason you chose this work, the mirror that reflects your emotional state back to you with complete honesty, the co-worker who will teach you more about yourself than any classroom ever could.

Take the Lead is for the fresh farrier who showed up ready to work and discovered that the work was bigger, more dynamic, more demanding, and more rewarding than they ever expected.

It still is.

Nothing is more important than beginning the right way, with the end in mind.”