I wanted to wish you a Happy New Year and let you know I’ll be posting more about the historical background of my novels this year. I discover SO MUCH MORE than I can put into my stories–they’re not meant to be history books, but the enlivening of my interpretation of the historical record! This …
Hi all, I’m sharing Aleksandra’s first kiss on Sherry Ewing’s blog today… and I’ll let you in on a little secret… It’s not with Xavier! But it IS her first kiss. So read about it on Sherry’s Historical blog! Head on over here to see it. Thanks for coming by! xx Lizzi
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …