When he left school, Richard spent several years in publishing, including two years in the UK. Richard did, and received a charming letter back telling him not to do it, as it was too hard. At the end of the evening, Ronald Syme told Richard to contact him when he was twenty-one if he still wanted to be a writer. By the end of the evening, Richard couldn’t imagine any career other than writing. During the evening he talked about how he wrote his books on tramp steamers while heading to exotic destinations. Ronald Syme replied, and Richard’s parents invited him for dinner. He was too shy to ask any questions afterwards, but wrote him a fan letter afterwards. He had to discontinue the newspaper after two years, as it was affecting his schoolwork.Īt about the same time, he attended a talk at his local library by Ronald Syme, a writer of adventure books for boys. He had ten subscribers and made a penny from each copy sold. Richard’s writing career began with a small newspaper that he wrote and sold to his neighbours when he was ten-years-old. Session tickets available as part of a Full Day Pass ($64.78) – Choose “Full Day Pass with Crafting Compelling Characters Morning Workshop Option” or as an individual session ( $29.90). Lizzi’s two current series are: The Long Trails saga of Historical Suspense / Women’s Fiction novels and the Once Upon a Vet School series of 14 semi-autobiographical, age-relative works of Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Autobiographies. With her debut novel, A Long Trail Rolling, she was Finalist 2013 RWNZ Great Beginnings Winner 2014 RWNZ Pacific Hearts Award for the unpublished full manuscript Winner 2015 RWNZ Koru Award for Best First Novel and third in Koru Long Novel section and finalist in the 2015 Best Indie Book Award.
She is multiply published and awarded in special interest magazines and veterinary periodicals. When she’s not writing, she’s swinging a rapier or shooting a bow in medieval garb, riding or driving a carriage, playing in the garden on her hobby farm, singing, cooking, being an equine veterinarian or high school science teacher.
She is the proud mother of two boys in that sea of green. Lizzi 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 Gold and Pony Express Country of California before emigrating to New Zealand.
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