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novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
LOL Now I’m blogging somewhere else! Rochelle’s got a fun blog and tonight and tomorrow, I’m ON IT! Just click this link! Come on by and meet Aleksandra, my heroine, and find out more about how I discovered Historical Romantic Suspense! See you there! Lizzi
Excited to announce I was selected as a Romance Lives Forever Top Chatter AND Top Blogger for January 2017! Thanks so much, Kayelle Allen, for the lovely gems! And they’re just my colour! . Would you like to know how I ended up writing The Hills of Gold Unchanging in the first place? My now-book 3 …
Hi all! I hope you can buzz over to Kayelle Allen’s site to see the new post I’ve put up about my soon to be released The Hills of Gold Unchanging! It’s at this link all day today! http://romancelivesforever.blogspot.com/2017/02/hills-gold.html Come on by! It’s a good one! xxx Lizzi Editing madly, still. L
There’s a free copy of the trade paperback of my award-winning A Long Trail Rolling up for grabs on the New Zealand Book Council FB page today for any Kiwis out there! Just comment on the post and you’re in the draw! It’s the first in The Long Trails Series, which includes The Hills of Gold Unchanging, …
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 …
Hello! Today I’m blogging about Aleksandra, from A Long Trail Rolling, over at Wild Women Authors! Come on by!!! That’s Fri 13th in the USA and Saturday 14th in New Zealand! I’m also talking about my next two books!~ It’s all here! http://www.wildwomenauthorsx2.blogspot.com./ Enjoy! xx Lizzi
Hi all, there are some fantastic Romance, Historical and heaps of other novels on a great promotion I’m part of today and for the next two days! (USA TIME!) All books $0.99 or free! Fill up that Kindle today! My Historical Romantic Suspense, A Long Trail Rolling is in the Romantic Suspense category of the promotion! …
Good morning! A Long Trail Rolling has made the New Zealand Book Council Summer Reads List! Booksellers NZ discusses the program here! They’re keen to inspire interest in home-grown talent! A cast of New Zealand writers have selected their top picks from the Aotearoa-grown bookshelves to help guide kiwis in their Summer reading goals. …
The Third Edition of A Long Trail Rolling is released and uploaded to most websites. New cover, revised interior! Take a look! And the paperback cover…with reviews by Deborah Challinor, Leeanna Morgan and Booksellers NZ And a treat inside the covers… (Thanks Chris, at Bookprinting.co.nz !) If you love sagas with gutsy, horsey heroines …
Hello! Some exciting news! A Long Trail Rolling will be promoted by the NZ Book Council as a summer read, recommended by author Leeanna Morgan! The Book Council has begun to announce the Aotearoa Summer Reads , and mine will be in next week’s list, promoted on 18th of December, just in time for Christmas! …
Hello! Couldn’t wait to release all the covers slowly, so here they are, take a peek and let me know what you think! They need final touchups, and reviews are to be added, but… ta da…. The Long Trails Series covers! Have a wonderful day, all! xx Lizzi
Hello all, I’m blogging today over at Bluestocking Belles page in their gossipy Teatime Tattler! Hope you can make it for tea! Come on by! just click on the link above! This is an original bit of story. The scene’s written, but this wasn’t included. It might be now! It’s from one of …
I’ve just entered! 🙂 The four categories in the New Zealand Heritage Writing Competition are Fiction Book, Non-Fiction book, Poetry and Short Prose. Source: New Zealand Heritage Book & Writing Awards
Hi All! Spent a great day and a half in Old Sacramento! Stayed at the Vagabond Inn Executive-Sacramento (Old Town), which I highly recommend for value for money, great people and great offerings! Plus, they’re right across the street from Old Sacramento! I was met by the Pony Express larger-than-life statue, and after being hurried …
If you’re anywhere near the Humboldt, California area, come on by one of the Author Talks I’m giving on Friday and Saturday of this week! Fortuna Library: Friday 24 June, 4 pm at 753 14th St, Fortuna Eureka Library: Saturday June 25, 3 pm at 1313 3rd St, Eureka Bayside Grange: Saturday 25 June, 7-9 pm …