Today, I’m welcoming a special guest, author Kathy Servian, writing as KA Servian, who has her own “very big house in the country”. Just like the lyrics to the Blur song, Country House, we lived in the city and about ten years ago, after watching too many episodes of Escape to the Country, decided that …
Tag: New Zealand
Our Christmas Tree, or A New Tradition for a New Life
This year, with my boys grown and moved away, my partner and I decided to simply decorate our living room for the holidays with a ficus tree, a veer away from tradition. Rather than purchase a cut-your-own pine Christmas tree, for the first time we chose to honour our own tree—the one which lives with us every …
New Release! Once Upon a Vet School #7: Lena Takes a Foal!
Happy Holidays from my family to yours, and a new release too! I hope you’re enjoying good health, good friends, and your favourite foods… and some new release books! We’ve just had a lovely and sunny Christmas down under in our little green spot of New Zealand. Plenty to do, with the farm, writing and …
Ever Thought of Riding the Pony Express?
I sure did…probably obsessed on riding the Pony Express, too, when I was a little girl riding out in the hills around La Honda, California. Maybe that’s why my first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, ended up being about the Pony Express…and a girl rider. Many have asked why I wrote about this for my first …
A SEA OF GREEN IS OUT!!! This month's giveaway below!
Hello to my wonderful readers! Thank you for making the release of The Hills of Gold Unchanging so successful in February! I’m very excited to tell you that A Sea of Green Unfolding is Now Available in eBook! (and I redid the cover! I hope you like it!) It will soon be available in …
A Sea of Green Unfolding to launch Saturday! FB PARTY ON IN ONE HOUR!
Good Morning, or Good Afternoon, as the case may be! In case you haven’t heard, There’s a Facebook Party to launch Sea of Green! It’s on very soon, like in an hour or less! My author friend Jude Knight, who also writes historicals, and I are having a FB Party here… https://www.facebook.com/events/257122021420491/ you’ve maybe not …
Draft for A Sea of Green is done!
Hi all! Well bloody hell, I’ve FINISHED the draft for A Sea of Green Unfolding, book 3 in The Long Trails Series! Those of you interested in being a beta reader please PM me. I have some of your names already, and will be contacting those who have done it before or who have …
Blogging about The Hills of Gold, New Release on Kayelle Allen's Site today!
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, …
Blogging at NZ Book Council's blog today!
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 …
Blogging Over at Wild Women Authors!
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
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 …
Blogging at Bluestocking Belles!
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 …
Talks Scheduled for Utah, Eureka, Fortuna and Bayside
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 …
The Mochila is Coming Closer
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 …