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novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
Tomorrow we head for USA, Veterinary School Reunion and Conference PLUS head for Utah to go over the Pony Express Trail in Utah with Patrick Hearty! Can’t wait! Will be blogging from there! See below… PatrickHearty sent this to me… It went via Pony Express horses and 600 riders in the mochila a few weeks …
June 20, 3:54pm PDT (today in the States, for those of you in NZ!) “The mail just left Lingle,WY at 4:45 pm, mountain time, headed towards Ft Laramie.” Patrick Hearty & Joseph Hatch The Pony Express Stations in Utah Well done to all of you out there riding! You might get a bit tired, but …
Yesterday’s post detailed the Pony Express 20th Anniversary Re-Ride. I have posted some handy links for you to follow the ride’s progress! Thanks to Pony Express History –18253400.nhd.weebly.com The Re-Ride continues! The “mochila,” (the leather pad with the mail pockets, below), which is transferred between riders on the Pony Express) has made it from Elwood, …
Who’s excited! I wish I could be in the States right now! The Pony Express Re-Ride began today, from St. Joseph to Old Sacramento! Patrick Hearty is my Utah contact for my NEARLY- completed novel Express Desire. Photo above: Patrick and Joseph’s book. Photo to right: Joseph L. Hatch, left, and Patrick Hearty talk …
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 …
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 …
Good Morning from New Zealand! This lovely morning finds my blog finally with my own Lizzi Tremayne domain name! Thank you, Shirley Wine, for the reminder that I needed to do that at yesterday’s RWNZ meeting! Regards, Lizzi
Happy Saturday… We’ve had some drizzle for about 3 hours now, not a lot, but it’s not running off either! Hope all of you in NZ are getting some rain as the drought is not helping anyone! (Yes, to those of you in faraway places, it hasn’t rained properly for more than a month or …
Several of you have asked me why I am writing a novel… Well, for those of you who don’t know me very well, let me introduce some of my history about history……….. I love the Old West. Bit of a long history, suffice it to say I grew up on Highway 84 in La Honda, …
Good Morning, All! Cranking on novel. Express Desire is coming along nicely. Should be done soon… Plan to have it published before I go to States in July to ride along the Pony Express trail with Patrick Hearty, Past President of the Utah Pony Express Association as well as meet up with all the fantastic …
Have begun teaching and continuing to seek the perfect position! Still performing veterinary dentistry for my clients on a limited basis. Back to this novel! Take care, all!
Hope you and yours have the best and safest of holidays. Writing going very well, and plan to write extensively on my two week holiday! Hope to be nearly done by the end of it! Happy Apocalypse Day! Have you seen Bob Mayer’s new book? The Green Beret Survival Guide to the Apocalypse, Zombies & More… …
Hello All, thanks for your patience! Having recovered from final assignments (Aced all of my courses, the old girl can still study!), I have reviewed all research from last year and am making progress on Express Desire… Have written 3000 words in last 3 writing days. The week before that did some editing of …
Having finished my Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Sec.), I have now resumed the writing of Express Desire… It’s coming together and have goaled to complete it by beginning of February. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you who helped me and inspired me through this past year. You know who you …
Several people have lately asked me what “steampunk” literature is. Rose Anderson, Author of Dreamscape and Hermes Online, just posted this great definition of Steampunk on a listserve: Steam grew from speculative fiction, think Jules Verne with his gadgets and machines being way ahead of their time, also Sherlock Holmes science, HG Wells philosophy etc. It’s …