Lizzi grew up riding wild in the Santa Cruz Mountain redwoods, became an equine veterinarian at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and practiced in the Gold and Pony Express Country of California before emigrating to New Zealand. She is the proud mother of two boys in that sea of green. When she's not writing, she's swinging a rapier or shooting a bow in medieval garb, riding or driving a carriage, playing in the garden on her hobby farm, singing, cooking, being an equine veterinarian or high school science teacher. She is multiply published and awarded in special interest magazines and veterinary periodicals.
With her debut novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
New posts now appear at Equine Vet Today — visit the blog here A horse-rich historical romance of pursuit, courage, and hard-won trust on the Utah frontier of 1860. When Aleksandra arrives at Xavier’s Pony Express station, she carries little more than a fast horse, a throwing knife, and a secret capable of destroying what …
Rosie’s Report It’s been awfully wet this month here in the Waikato at the base of the Coromandel and we’re truly into winter! Here’s Rosie in her happy place when it’s raining… The shoulder continues to improve, and have started swimming… started in the USA a few weeks ago, where it was warm… Resumed …
I hope this finds you well as we tear through May! The weather in NZ is turning colder (some days… my fruit trees are beginning to get blossoms????) and it’s heading into winter down here. The shoulder is improving, thankfully, and I’m able to use it if I’m careful. I’m getting very good at playing …
I’d like to wish you the safest and happiest holiday season, from my home to yours, filled with love and light. What I’ve been up to… We just finished a lovely Hogmanay dinner, deep dish beef pie, carrots with butter, and (Colombian ?) Arepas! Bit of a mixup, but no potatoes to be had in …
Good morning all! The wonderful Genna Peka of Shop local Waihi is highlighting local businesses in the wake of COVID. Lizzi Tremayne / Elizabeth Thompson and her work were lucky enough to be hosted for the first of the weekly introductory videos! Thanks so much Genna and Sacha Urlich! In case you aren’t aware, New …
Rewena Bread, Traditional Māori Bread! Most of you know me as a writer, but I’m also an equine (horse) veterinarian and teacher. With the onset of COVID-19 home isolation or quarantine, or School Time Out, I wanted to use what I’ve learned through my life to help as many of you as possible to enjoy the …
Simple Bread Making without Fuss… or a Fancy Kitchen, for Kids and Grownups Together Hi all! Most of you know me as a writer, but I’m also an equine (horse) veterinarian. After an injury, I thought I’d never practice again, so I went back to university and completed a Graduate Diploma to teach secondary biology …
Home Sanity 1 Hi all! Most of you know me as a writer, but I’m also an equine (horse) veterinarian. After an injury, I thought I’d never practice again, so I went back to university and completed a Graduate Diploma to teach secondary biology and chemistry. I’m now back practicing veterinary medicine again, but with …
Hi all! Climbing out from under my writing rock to let you know it’s Read an Ebook Week from March 2nd-8th! They’re even for kids, see?Kobo Buy One Get One Free What better way to celebrate Read and Ebook Week than with Kobo’s March Buy 1 Get 1 Free special on Romantic Suspense Ebooks? You’ll find …
The Year Without a Summer? All of our thoughts from New Zealand are with our Australian cousins in this time of the fires which are devastating their already hot and dry lands. Climate change there has had disastrous consequences which I needn’t repeat here. See more here: Australian fires on BBC We’re seeing the atmospheric …
Hello my lovely reader! I wondered if you could help me? I need to know your favourite historical Scottish names… to use in my upcoming Historical Fiction novel, nay, a series, starting in the time of the Highland Clearances in 1815 and going through the 1860s. I need a heroine name and a hero name. …
True West Magazine True West Senior Editor Stuart Rosebrook PhD reviewed A Long Trail Rolling a few years ago and I was searching for it to go into an application for the NZ Book Council. Couldn’t find it, though, could I? But boy, was I excited to find this! Must be a bit slow–it was from 2016! Even …
When you write historical fiction and are invited by a group of historians (both Pākeha and Māori) who research and live (and whose ancestors lived…) in the exact area you’ve written about in one of your historical novels… well, you might forgive me for being a bit nervous. Perhaps even historically terrified! It was well …
BookBub: It’s something I’d never heard of, but it’s great for letting you know about deals on books in categories YOU choose. It’s also a great place for authors to get their books out to people all over the world who are interested in the sort of books they write. This post is to let …
The Hills of Gold Unchanging. Book Two in The Long Trails series of unpretentious, eminently readable Historical Fiction by horse vet-author Lizzi Tremayne is my #SixSentenceSunday for the week. Want to read an excerpt? Here’s the first bit of Chapter Six from 1860 Utah: “Oh, no.” Aleksandra froze, and Rogan danced sideways beneath her, ears …