Lizzi Tremayne
Unpretentious, eminently readable Contemporary and Historical Fiction… by a horse vet!
Lizzi started HorseAndVetBooks.com because of she couldn’t find any websites solely for readers and authors of horsey and veterinary fiction. Now it’s here, and she’s trying to add value to her followers!
She writes about the Old West, Tsarist Russia, Georgian Scotland, and Colonial New Zealand, as well as veterinary fiction and non-fiction—all with a horsey flair—and has three historical fiction novels, two contemporary veterinary fiction novels and over thirty veterinary nonfiction articles published to date.
Lizzi Tremayne is the writing pseudonym of Elizabeth Thompson. She 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 California Pony Express and Gold Country before emigrating to New Zealand. There, she’s practiced equine medicine and surgery and attained a membership by examination in the ANZCVS in equine dentistry, a graduate diploma of teaching from Waikato University in secondary sciences (it’s a long story…), and IVAS veterinary acupuncture certification. She’s written for many horse magazines and veterinary journals over her nearly 30 years in practice.
Lizzi has two wonderful, grown-up boys, a very cute grandbaby, and an awesome partner in this sea of green. When she’s not writing, she’s swinging a rapier or shooting a bow in medieval garb, riding, driving a carriage or playing on her hobby farm, singing, or working as an equine veterinarian.
Her books are sold around the world in ebook, print, and some in large print formats.
Her debut novel, first in The Long Trails series, A Long Trail Rolling, was:
Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award
Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel
Third place 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best Long Novel
Upcoming books to be released in 2018 include:
Fifty Miles at a Breath, #6 in the Once Upon a Vet School series
Tatiana, book four in The Long Trails series of historical fiction.
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Lizzi’s Writing Awards to Date
From Top Left: Trophy for Pacific Hearts Award 2014; trophy for Best Practitioner Publication by an Equine Practitioner 2010; trophy for Koru Award, Best First Book. From Bottom left: rosettes for Finalist in Great Beginnings 2013, Winner of Pacific Hearts 2014, Winner Koru Best First Book 2015 and Third Place Koru Best Long Book 2015.
In detail, here are the awards for A Long Trail Rolling.
Koru Award
The Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ) recognises the talents of all published authors with their readers choice contest called The Koru Award. This prize is for the best novel of the year in four categories.The koru symbol, as used in New Zealand, is a Māori term, based upon the shape of a new unfurling frong of ponga, (or punga), also known as the silver fern. It symbolises new life, growth, strength and peace, and creation (not to mention being the name of our national netball team).
A Long Trail Rolling was: 
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Accepting the Koru Awards! Another lovely trophy to go with the Pacific Hearts one! Thank you, RWNZ!
Best Indie Book Awards
And Finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Awards!
New Zealand Book Awards
And longlisted in the New Zealand Book Awards as a YA 15+, though it was never written as a YA!
RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award
The previous year, A Long Trail Rolling won the Pacific Hearts Award, New Zealand’s answer to the RITA and RUBY. This award of the Romance Writers of New Zealand is for the best manuscript of a full-length novel of the year by an unpublished author.
Accepting first place for A Long Trail Rolling in the Pacific Hearts Award 2014.
RWNZ Great Beginnings Award
The year before that, it was a finalist in the Great Beginnings under its previous title Express Desire.
This award of the Romance Writers of New Zealand is for the best first three chapters and synopsis of a novel.
Receiving award for the 2014 RWNZ Great Beginnings Contest. This was my most exciting award—my first fiction.
Best Practitioner Publication by an Equine Practitioner of the Equine Veterinary Association of the NZVA 2010
This coveted bronze, also affectionately called the Jonathan Hope Award for the best Equine Practitioner Publication for the man who started and administers it, was won with Equine Dentistry, a series of three articles published in Vetscript NZVA veterinary journal, New Zealand.
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Lizzi
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Lizzi’s Ventures Other Than Horse and Vet Books
Horse, Geek & Sword Literary Consultancy
Lizzi and Matthew have just started a new line, an editing service for writers without firsthand knowledge of horses, veterinary medicine, tech and computing sciences, and medieval and renaissance swordplay.
Some readers don’t mind, but others really care if the author gets it wrong. We aim to help. Click here to find out more:
Blue Mist Equine Veterinary Centre
Lizzi has run BMEVC, a mobile equine veterinary practice, since 1998, first from Te Pahu, New Zealand, before moving to practice in the area surrounding Waihi, New Zealand in 2000. Her practice is now mainly referral equine dentistry with occasional, thoroughly enjoyable, forays into zoo dentistry. Click here to find out more:
Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks
Lizzi originally developed Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks because they were not available in New Zealand and she needed them for her rapidly-developing equine dental practice, as well as for her general practice. She’s expanding its range to the USA and exhibiting at AAEP in November this year. Click here to find out more:
