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novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings; Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript; Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section; and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
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 …
Amazing how working on a character arc can sometimes be a huge lesson in self-psychoanalysis. My Heroine in Express Desire is teaching me significant lessons today which I’ve needed to learn my whole life… More on that later.
Boy, is learning about social media a steep learning curve! Getting my ducks in line, I’ll get there! Now that they are pretty well there and the cotton is slowly coming out of my head from this virus we’ve all had, the writing continues, but in earnest now! Have created a new FB page under …
Reading Bob Mayer’s blogs reminds me that I have already discovered,( usually by trial and subsequent error) that no matter what goal I set for myself, it cannot be achieved without consistent, directed effort. Coupled with the fact that in the past I have nearly always tried to do more than was humanly possible, and …