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December 21, 2021
WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS #WINTERSOLSTICE #WINTER
Great post Alison. I love these markers throughout the year: Solstice, Beltane, Equinox and so on. The connection with the past is to be cherished and remembered. Lizzie xx

There’s something about a cold day in December, the sky growing dark, the fire lit, candles glowing, a glass of red wine and a good book. Christmas is approaching and it’s already the shortest day. I’ve always been fascinated at the old traditions and history of the seasons and festivals, p...
WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS #WINTERSOLSTICE #WINTER
Great post Alison. I love these markers throughout the year: Solstice, Beltane, Equinox and so on. The connection with the past is to be cherished and remembered. Lizzie xx

There’s something about a cold day in December, the sky growing dark, the fire lit, candles glowing, a glass of red wine and a good book. Christmas is approaching and it’s already the shortest day. I’ve always been fascinated at the old traditions and history of the seasons and festivals, p...
December 15, 2021
Meet Lizzie Lamb, finalist of the RNA Indie Champion 2021
Welcome, Lizzie!
Having just listened to your interview on radio Leicester I wondered what it was that swayed you away from fantasy and faerie folk of your younger years to the romance genre?
Growing up in Scotland with the Ravenscraig Steel Works literally at the bottom of my garden I, along with my friends, created an alternative reality. In the nearby woods we went in search of faeries under toadstools, nyads at the bottom of wells and dryads in the trees...
November 28, 2021
The results are in . . .
Read what Lizzie got up to at the RNA Awards in October.

Although I wasn’t lucky enough to win my category at the Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards Ceremony I was proud to be nominated. And, in true Lizzie fashion, I made quite an event of it: travelling first class from Leicester to St Pancras with husband Dave, lunch in the Betjeman Arms, overnight stay at the Leonardo Hotel in view of the Tower of London. There was even time...
October 22, 2021
My best week ever . . .
Good morning. Read about my radio interview, my being shortlisted for an Industry Award – Indie Champion 2021 – by the RNA and a mention of my SWIP. Have a great weekend.
For those of you who read my previous blog post about being shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists” Association Indie Champion of the Year I have some follow-on news to share.
I learned via Melanie Griffiths (PA to the RNA Committee) that BBC Radio Leicester would like to interview me about my pa...
October 9, 2021
BREAKING NEWS – RNA INDIE HERO AWARD
I’m super thrilled to announce that I’ve been short listed for the inaugural ‘INDIES HERO AWARD 2021′ by the Romantic Novelists’ Association.So thrilled to share this news with my followers and friends —–

I’ve been blogging for quite some time but some of my newer followers might not know the story behind my writing journey. So I thought it might be a good idea to bring you all up to date. If you’d like to learn more about the award, here’s a link to the a...
June 14, 2021
A Change of Heart by Adrienne Vaughan Escape to Ireland… and fall in love all over again! #BookReview
Always great to be reminded of a favourite novel. Thanks, Lizanne.

Escaping to a remote Irish isle, journalist Marianne Coltrane had not bargained for a tumultuous affair with movie star Ryan O’Gorman. When Ryan leaves to pursue his career, Marianne remains to care for those who need her most, but Ryan soon realises he cannot live without her and returns to woo her back .Tricky enough without his problematic ex-wife or the contract he cannot break, but w...
A Change of Heart by Adrienne Vaughan Escape to Ireland… and fall in love all over again! #BookReview
Always great to be reminded of a favourite novel. Thanks, Lizanne.

Escaping to a remote Irish isle, journalist Marianne Coltrane had not bargained for a tumultuous affair with movie star Ryan O’Gorman. When Ryan leaves to pursue his career, Marianne remains to care for those who need her most, but Ryan soon realises he cannot live without her and returns to woo her back .Tricky enough without his problematic ex-wife or the contract he cannot break, but w...
March 14, 2021
Harper’s Highland Fling by Lizzie Lamb Blog Tour – Review

After a gruelling academic year, head teacher Harper MacDonald is looking forward to a summer holiday trekking in Nepal.
However, her plans are scuppered when wayward niece, Ariel, leaves a note announcing that she’s running away with a boy called Pen. The only clue to their whereabouts is a footnote: I’ll be in Scotland.
Cue a case of mistaken identity when Harper confronts the boy’s father – Rocco Penhaligon, and accuses him of cradle snatching her niece and...
February 10, 2021
Desert Island Books with… Lizzie Lamb
Today’s literary castaway, stranded on a deserted beach with only five books and one luxury item to keep her company, is author, Lizzie Lamb. Let’s see what she has chosen from all the books even written as the ones she would like to be stuck with indefinitely, shall we?
Book One – Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer
Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate.
When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed – she’ll escape a life as a gove...