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novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
Hi All! It was Great!!!! Grit in your teeth, hot, sweaty horses and people… and the mochila, being handed from horse to horse every two miles, for 2000 miles… What else could it be but fantastic? Here’s where our group started, at Simpson’s! It was a three-generation-Hearty Family affair, from Izzy, below shown with dad …
Hi All! Here is the more complete list of talks! They will be Meet the Author sessions, and I’ll be talking about History, Writing History, A Long Trail Rolling, and doing some readings from some of the books! If all goes well tomorrow, there will be some footage shot during my ride in the Pony …
Here at the Pat and Linda Hearty residence, we’re preparing and waiting with expectancy for Group 1 of the Utah Pony Express Association to hand over the mochila to us at Simpson Springs tomorrow morning! Our team, Team 3, led by the Heartys, will have 42 rides of two miles each, which will be split up between the …
Hi All! You’re all invited to some talks, coming soon! What we’ll talk about…. A Long Trail Rolling is an Historical Romantic Suspense novel, and the first in The Long Trail Quadrilogy. The book is a crossover between YA and Adult. I am an awarded, self-published author, equine veterinarian with an equine dental practice(UCD grad) and high …
Hello Everyone! I’ll be on the road in June and July and wonder if any of you could please give me any leads you might have on bookstores, libraries or the like which might be interested in hosting Lizzi Tremayne for a book talk and signing? I’ll be in Salt Lake City, Utah (To ride …
It was fantastic, the Pony Express, wasn’t it? 400 horses, 120 riders, nearly two hundred stations and several hundred station keepers, water /feed carters and the like, through hostile territory, alkali deserts, and high mountains, to get mail across the continental USA in TEN DAYS! Unheard of! The mochila, that piece of leather with the …
Hmmm… Well…. I’ve learned something new in the past few days… so it can’t all be bad. 🙂 TAKE-HOME LESSON NUMBER ONE: Use only ONE year for all ‘first’ copyrights for a book. (helps to not do all this in December and January, LOL). TAKE-HOME LESSON NUMBER TWO: If you have any queries, ASK. I …
Hello All out there! Putting the word out now…..I’ll be in the USA and UK in June and July. If any of you would like me to speak, please private message me via Facebook on my Lizzi Tremayne Facebook page or Twitter on my Lizzi Tremayne Twitter page I’ll be in Utah: Salt Lake City …
How very exciting! Opened email today to find this! and the lovely note attached: Dear Lizzi Tremayne It‘s my pleasure to let you know that your novel, A Long Trail Rolling, has been selected by our reader judges as a finalist in the HOLT Medallion contest in the Romantic Suspense AND Best First Book categories. Congratulations! …
Come on by the Hamilton Zinefest this Saturday! Lizzi Tremayne and Blue Mist Publishing will have a presence there, not sure if we’ll have the big red and blue gazebo or not, but we’ll be there with bells on! It’s at Creative Waikato, Alexandra Street (next door to Mr Milton’s Canteen) Click here …
Hi All, Blogging over at Ada Soto’s page, about food, Aleksandra and some bits of her Polish ancestry! Come on by! Click HERE to go straight to it! Enjoy! It’s just the weather to make some Zurek!
Hello All! It’s been some time since I’ve been blogging, been so busy finishing The Hills of Gold Unchanging and A Sea of Green Unfolding ! A few months ago I completed the research and wrote the sections about Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, and am transcribing them from my … scribbles to Scrivener, and …
Hi All! It’s today! It’s TODAY!!! Okay, backtrack, sorry. Paula Slater of Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, in Canada, interviewed me last week for her Radio Show! See three blogs down for the article I wrote for her to post on her site along with it! Anyway, the interview is live on their website NOW at http://www.straightfromthehorsesmouthradioshow.com/ Hmmm. …
Hi All! A great new review for A Long Trail Rolling has come through from Paula Phillips over at The Phantom Paragrapher! Review: A Long Trail Rolling – Lizzi Tremayne – January 2015 Unlike Most Indie books when they come into the writing world , A Long Trail Rolling has won the 2014 RWNZ …
Hi All! I wrote the article in the last blog post to follow up my Radio Show Interview with Paula Slater at Straight from the Horse’s Mouth Radio Show! She interviewed me last week and it’ll be live on their website this Wednesday 28th October, for those of you in the States and on Thursday 29 October, for …