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Sourdough. What Could be Nicer?

Sourdough is in my heart. So is yogurt. My mum got me started, so we can all blame her. We all love historicals, right? I guess so, or you probably wouldn’t be here on this page. Sourdough and Fermentation For many hundreds (thousands) of years, people have been using fermentation of various sorts to improve …

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Authors in Bloom

Authors in Bloom Blog Hop!

  Hello all, and welcome to Lizzi Tremayne’s portion of the Authors in Bloom Blog Hop. I write historical romantic fiction and veterinary school contemporary stories, all with a horsey flair. I’m so glad you could join us today! Be sure to read through to the end to find out how to enter my contest …

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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 …

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Por qué Xavier tenía que ser español, or Why Xavier had to be Spanish….

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 …

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Utah and California, Here We Come!

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 …

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