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February 25, 2018
Teatime with Cerise and Susana This Week!
Later this week I'll be taking tea with Cerise and Susana at Teatime with Cerise and Susana on Facebook.
It's on Wed, February 28 at 5 EST/4 Central/2 Pacific! That's also Thursday (NZT) at 11 am.
Hope you can make it!
It'll be here!
Come on by ahead of time to see what we're up to!
What are YOU going to wear and take to tea?
Hope to see you there for a little bit of fun!
xx
Lizzi
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February 24, 2018
Teatime Tattler is up, featuring A Long Trail Rolling!
Hi all, busy week! I'm featured in the Bluestocking Belles' Teatime Tattler today and it's available for your reading pleasure now!
This is a fun little page on Bluestocking Belles, the group of historical authors I've recently been invited to join! 
February 22, 2018
NATM Equi-Still Stocks Compliance is FINAL!
Hi all! Yes, I'm excited. Our Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks have finally received their compliance certificate from the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) in the USA!
It was a long haul, but the stringent requirements of the NATM compliance program means the trailers inherent to our Equi-Still Portable Equine Stocks should be compliant for registration in all fifty states!
YEAH!
Thanks so much to my awesome engineer, Jeff!
We've found a manufacturer in the USA, and contracts are just awaiting final signing. The stocks from AAEP are currently visiting my friends in Texas. They will be shipped to the new manufacturers to assist in their first stocks build. Then THOSE ones will be for available.
And we'll be away!
If you're interested in seeing what the NATM is all about, just click here to see their website.
Thanks to those of you who expressed interest at the San Antonio American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention last November! I'll be emailing you soon!
https://lizzitremayne.com/equi-still-stocks/
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February 16, 2018
Do We Really Need All That Research to Write History?
Hiya all, I'm blogging about history, writing and… do we really need all that research? Come by and see!
It's at Caroline Warfield's page, here!
While you're there, have a read of her other historical tidbits!
Caroline is one of the members of Bluestocking Belles, the group I've just been nominated to join!
Enjoy!
xx
Lizzi
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February 12, 2018
There are Two New Belles in Town!
So… my big news, in case you missed it: The Bluestocking Belles, or BellesInBlue, have taken me on, and Rue Allyn as well!
They're pretty successful authors, so I'm… shall we say… excited?
February 7, 2018
“My Horse is Needle-Shy, Doc. I Hope You Don’t get Injured…”
Here’s a vet post for horse addicts or followers of my veterinary page. I hope you and your equestrian friends are doing well. Knock on wood, I’m injury free right now (we won’t talk about the atrial fibrillation…). I just heard about a friend and client who was injured by her own horse and it’s got me thinking.
An eye like this is pretty painful…Those of you with horses know “injury – free” is a tenuous thing at best for an equine veterinarian or a horse owner. Even the safest and kindest horses are still horses.
A messy one to treat, for the horse and vet.Being a horse equates to a mass of muscle, bone and hoof around 5-600 kg (half a ton, for those of you up north) led by a highly reactive brain whose primary defense mechanism is flight. If you're at the bottom of their pecking order and you're in the way… well… it's not good.
Postural Rehabilitation on an eventer.Understandably, horses are averse to being hurt and a few of them are quite successful at avoiding needles, oral medications, dewormers and the like. They are capable of learning out all sorts of ways to avoid it. We tend to get stuck in the crossfire. And frequently become injured.
Toya Postural Rehab exercises as a 2 year oldThere’s plenty of research out there to substantiate the numbers of people injured by their beloved equine friends or patients, but what can be done about it? Do you have to live with it?
BEVA videos to help prevent you from being injured
Equine vets have one of the highest injury risks of all civilian professions. To help address this serious issue the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has produced a series of short videos, featuring vet and equine behaviourist Gemma Pearson.
They're designed to help owners and veterinarians be safer around horses and still get the job done, with a happy horse at the end of it. And a non-injured vet and owner.
Here is their intro video on YouTube. The rest are linked.
Before you leave completely, a few questions for you!
Do you have any problems when the vet’s there with your horses, like difficulty with injections, handling, or the like?
Do you have problems deworming your horse or getting them to hold still or lead up?
I’d love to hear about it! There's a comment button at the top!
If you want to win an e-copy of my newest novella,
Once Upon a Vet School #7: Lena Takes a Foal
go into the draw by joining my newsletter list and commenting below.
The winner will be drawn on 28 February 2018.
Take care and prevent yourself and others from becoming injured!
xx
Lizzi
Elizabeth Thompson, DVM, MANZCVS (EqDent), GradDipTeach writing as Lizzi Tremayne
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February 2, 2018
“Why do you write history?” They Ask….
Hi all, I'm blogging about what could possibly make me write about history over at Authors of Main Street today, here!
(here's a little of our own history… Elliot found Maya in the new bin of organic spelt flour in the garage… hmmm… ) 
But I digress… (or is it regress?)
Come on by and let me know what you think?
In the post, I've asked you a question about the upcoming Book 4 in The Long Trails series, Tatiana!
But why the FOOD photo for the featured image? You'll just have to come by to find out!
Looking forward to hearing from you!
xx
Lizzi
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January 27, 2018
A Very Big House in the Country
Today, I'm welcoming a special guest, author Kathy Servian, writing as KA Servian, who has her own “very big house in the country”.
Just like the lyrics to the Blur song, Country House, we lived in the city and about ten years ago, after watching too many episodes of Escape to the Country, decided that a rural idyll was for us.
I don’t want to sound as cynical as the song, we love our five acres half-an-hour north of Auckland. The place is everything we hoped it would be; lush, green, private, quiet and with a wonderful community spirit that you just don’t get in the suburbs.
We like to think that we’ve found the perfect balance, close enough to the shops to be convenient (a ten-minute drive to the largest mall in NZ), but far enough away to avoid the hustle and bustle of town.
But rural living (even semi-rural like us) is not for everyone. No one told us about the rampant weeds, endless hours of mowing, looking at the sky and wanting it to rain before we run out of water, the power cuts, the ducks bathing in the water-filled potholes on our driveway that we can’t afford to concrete and the fact that we can’t get take-out food delivered. 
But these minor issues all fade to insignificance when I step outside my door and am surrounded by the beauty of nature. Pukekos strut across the lawn (well, the scrubby, weed-infested piece of ground I like to call a lawn), bunnies bounce past, their white tails catching the sunlight (I know they’re a pest, but they’re just so cute), sheep bleat from our paddocks just below the house, and one of our chickens wanders up and give me that look that says ‘are you going to feed me?’ just before she does an enormous poo right in the middle of the driveway.
We like to pretend that we’re genuine ‘country folk’ , the type who have a real four-wheel drive vehicle (not one of those pretend SUV types like ours), wear our gumboots to the shops and keep actual, proper animals – you know for eating. But it’s all a ruse. The only animals we have are two chickens who are more pets than stock and rarely produce eggs. The sheep grazing our paddocks belong to our neighbour, who is much more ‘country’ than us – he can actually do stuff like put up his own fences. 
We hire someone to mow the steep parts of our land and, I admit it, I’m terrified of large animals like cows and horses. We live surrounded by various livestock and as long as they stay behind their fences, I’m happy to admire them from a distance.
So, yes, I admit it, I’m a country fraud. I love the peace and the community, but I confess that I do sometimes secretly dream of being able to walk to the shops or of having a tiny garden that requires hardly any maintenance or never having to herd an escaped sheep back into a paddock or wash chicken poo off the outdoor furniture again. Perhaps, one day, we’ll move back to the burbs, but for now, I’m prepared to live with the minor inconveniences of country living because, on balance, it’s totally worth it.
KA's latest release, The Moral Compass,
(which is not about living in the country),
is now available!
Florence lives like a Princess attending dinner parties and balls away from the gritty reality, filth and poverty of Victorian London.
However, her world comes crashing around her when her father suffers a spectacular fall from grace. She must abandon her life of luxury, leave behind the man she loves and sail to the far side of the world where compromise and suffering beyond anything she can imagine await her.
When she is offered the opportunity to regain some of what she has lost, she takes it, but soon discovers that everything is not as it seems. The choice she has made has a high price attached and she must live with the heart-breaking consequences of her decision.
This novel is part one in the ‘Shaking the Tree' series.
As a life-long creative, Kathy gained qualifications in fashion design, applied design to fabric and jewellery making and enjoyed a twenty-year-plus career in the fashion and applied arts industries as a pattern maker, designer and owner of her own clothing and jewellery labels.
Creative writing started as a self-dare to see if she had the chops to write a manuscript. Writing quickly became an obsession and Kathy’s first novel, Peak Hill, which was developed from the original manuscript, was a finalist in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Pacific Hearts Full Manuscript contest in 2016.
Never one to do things by half, Kathy designed and made the costume for the cover of her third novel and her first historical, The Moral Compass and has made several other costumes from various periods in preparation for the novels that will follow in her Shaking the Tree series.
Kathy has recently completed a diploma in advanced applied writing. She squeezes writing novels in around teaching sewing part-time and being a wife and mother.
You can follow Kathy on her website https://kaservian.com/ or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/KAServian/. Photography is also one of her hobbies. You can view her images on her Instagram feed https://www.instagram.com/kathygianno...
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January 22, 2018
You’re Invited to a Kiwi Summer Beach Party TOMORROW!
Hi! I'd like to invite you to an online Facebook Party!
It's tomorrow, all day, (and half of the night in the USA and overseas)!
IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A FACEBOOK PARTY IS… (Most people don't…)
It's an opportunity for you to :
meet new authors
hear about books from a wide variety of genres, over multi-eras, from multi-talented authors
visit with the authors you know and love
find book you might never have found
meet a bunch of Kiwi authors and readers at the party whom you also might never have found.
A group Matthew and I formed, Kiwi Book Feast, is putting on the party! We put up an Amazon Gift Card between the five of us, but not to be outdone, our invited guest participants have offered to donate toward YOUR BONUS GIVEAWAY! This bonus prize is for those splendid participants who:
1-register for the party by clicking on “GOING” at the top of the page and
2-comment on posts by any of the five Kiwi Book Launch members including Jude Knight, Lizzi Tremayne Author / Elizabeth Anne Thompson, Matthew Tremayne Author / Matt Mole, Anya Forest, and Kirsten McKenzie!
HOW IT WORKS:
Think you'll never meet published authors? Think again!
Your authors have time slots on this party page from 10:00 am NZ Time (that's 3 pm EST on 23 Jan) through to 7:45 pm (1:45 am EST on 24 Jan). Every 3-5 minutes, they will post, often with images, about their books, their life, themselves, and ask questions of YOU, so you can actively participate and post your answers or even more questions!
The twenty-minute slots run pretty fast for the authors, but they're keeping track of your questions, and will later be returning to answer YOUR queries and comment on YOUR comments! The page will stay open, but the contest will only stay open for 24 hours after the party ends! Depending on how many questions we get, we may not get to answer them all for a few days, but we'll try to make it as soon as possible.
I'll be talking about my stories, both series' and a little about the upcoming book in The Long Trails series,Tatiana!
So that's it!
It's a lot of fun. I'm on at (*NZ
times: 10:30 am-10:50, 3:10-3:30 and 3:50 – 4:10 tomorrow (Wed 24th Jan in NZ).
For USA: add 6 hours for EST and 3 hours for Pacific time (and subtract a day, ie: it's on TUESDAY 23rd).
I REALLY hope you can join us and see what my friends and I are up to!
Again, it's here, in case the link above doesn't work!
https://www.facebook.com/events/386514841783262/
Thanks for reading!
xx
Lizzi
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January 9, 2018
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Lesley Kelly, who won a signed copy of Once Upon a Vet School for answering the monthly question in my Lizzi Tremayne Newsletter!
The answer was… a foal! (what a surprise! 
