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 …
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 …
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! …
Hi All, I’m blogging today over at The Romance Studio! Come on over to The Romance Studio hear a little about the Secession Menace in California in the 1860’s, A Long Trail Rolling and The Hills of Gold Unchanging! See you there! XXX Lizzi
Just for a bit of fun, here’s one of the blog posts I’m posting on the 21st of this month on The Romance Studio’s End of Summer Bash… Hello All! Welcome back! Here’s another excerpt… with Scotty, horses and sparks flying between Aleksandra and Xavier… ~ ~ ~ ‘Oh no, the Furs! And …
Hi everyone! I was invited to an interview with Cynthia Wolf, Historical Romance author extraordinaire! Click Here! Here’s the header on her lovely page! Come on by and learn a little about where I got interested in writing, how the series began, and some things about me you might not have known! Leave a comment …
Hello everyone! Today I’m blogging at not one, but two other sites, about New Zealand and a BEAUTIFUL place there, and how it happened that seeing the sign, and then the place, radically changed the ending of my third novel, A Sea of Green Unfolding! The first (because it was really yesterday) is at The Romance …
Hello All, Hop on over to SONZA’s site http://sonza.co.nz/book-launch-giveaway-a-long-trail-rolling/ for a Zee’s interview of me and her report on my NZ Book Launch! Enjoy! Regards, Lizzi
If you’ve ever met me in person….. (grinning sheepishly…), I probably don’t have to tell you how excited I am that NaNoWriMo (nanowrimo.org) starts this Saturday, 1 November. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, which happens every November. I’ve started a Facebook page for those who wish to be in a NaNo group and …
A big Thank You to Annie Featherstone, aka Sophia James, for mentoring me, my award for winning the Pacific Hearts Award. Thanks to Annie, A Long Trail Rolling is on its final edits, and the balance of The Hills of Gold Unchanging should be completed by end of November during NaNoWriMo! A Sea of Green …
The best news of all is that… Ta Da….. Patrick Hearty, my Pony Express Expert, is going to write the Forward for A Long Trail Rolling! Patrick and Dr. Joseph Hatch wrote a book about the Pony Express Stations in Utah, called…. you guessed it! Patrick Hearty The Pony Express Stations in Utah Patrick explains …
Yep, we did it! My first novel, A Long Trail Rolling, has won the 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award! To say I’m pleased is a bit of an understatement! The big one I get to keep for this year, and a smaller version, inscribed with 2014, forever! The conference was fantastic, with amazing speakers from New …
Here’s a post I wrote for Bethanne Strasser’s Through the Heart Shaped Glasses blog earlier this month. I thought some of you might appreciate it! What draws us to history? Is it the romance of a different time from our own? Is it what history can show us about ourselves? How we’re different from or …
It happened on the way to St Cath’s Faire, an SCA reenactment event, last Sunday near Clevedon. A massive change in the direction of my new novel, A Sea of Green Unfolding. It came to me while I drove past the Waihou River (Called the River Thames by Captain Cook when he first landed …
A new signature, thanks to my son Elliot and his awesome skills with Photoshop! For NaNoWriMo! The new short synopsis… This sequel to Express Desired is about a young couple’s journey to adventure in the turbulent wilderness of 1861 New Zealand. Tragedy strikes in Aleksandra and Xavier’s newly found paradise on their California Rancho …