Tag: rancho de las pulgas

New Release! Once Upon a Vet School #7: Lena Takes a Foal!

Happy Holidays from my family to yours, and a new release too! I hope you’re enjoying good health, good friends, and your favourite foods… and some new release books! We’ve just had a lovely and sunny Christmas down under in our little green spot of New Zealand. Plenty to do, with the farm, writing and …

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Ever Thought of Riding the Pony Express?

I sure did…probably obsessed on riding the Pony Express, too, when I was a little girl riding out in the hills around La Honda, California. Maybe that’s why my first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, ended up being about the Pony Express…and a girl rider. Many have asked why I wrote about this for my first …

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A Sea of Green Unfolding to launch Saturday! FB PARTY ON IN ONE HOUR!

Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, as the case may be! In case you haven’t heard, There’s a Facebook Party to launch Sea of Green! It’s on very soon, like in an hour or less! My author friend Jude Knight, who also writes historicals, and I are having a FB Party here… https://www.facebook.com/events/257122021420491/ you’ve maybe not …

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Draft for A Sea of Green is done!

Hi all!   Well bloody hell, I’ve FINISHED the draft for A Sea of Green Unfolding, book 3 in The Long Trails Series! Those of you interested in being a beta reader please PM me. I have some of your names already, and will be contacting those who have done it before or who have …

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Blogging at NZ Book Council's blog today!

Hi all! I’m blogging about my newest novel, The Hills of Gold Unchanging, on the New Zealand Book Council’s blog today! In this post is the first public peek at the start of this novel! Even the beta readers haven’t seen it!   CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE POST! 🙂   It’s to be released …

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Blogging Today at The Romance Studio!

Hi All, I’m blogging today over at The Romance Studio! Come on over to The Romance Studio hear a little about the Secession Menace in California in the 1860’s, A Long Trail Rolling and The Hills of Gold Unchanging! See you there! XXX Lizzi

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NaNoWriMo has Begun!

Hello All! Well, first day, I didn’t make my goal of 1700 words on the new novel I began on 1 November, A Sea of Green Unfolding, the sequel to Express Desired, wherein Aleksandra and Xavier are still reeling from the death of their first newborn child when they discover that they have lost Rancho …

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Por qué Xavier tenía que ser español, or Why Xavier had to be Spanish….

Español….   …  ranks behind only China in total number of language speakers, and far ahead of English speakers.. One good reason to include it in my nearly-completed novel… Another one… it is the language of love… Xavier, born of his Spanish Californio family is, despite his challenges, able to speak this language of love… In …

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Utah and California, Here We Come!

Looking forward to our trip to the States in July! We will be visiting many sites from the novel Express Desire, soon to be completed! First, the Rancho de las Pulgas, which was the old 1795 Spanish land grant which belonged to the family of my novel hero Xavier Arguello, which today comprises most of …

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