Liz Fielding

Breathless · 23-06-11, 12:50 PM

Liz Fielding

I've been reading since I was knee-high to a gnat. My mother taught me, the way she taught me all the good things in life. She read to me when I was little and then she bought me books of my own. Little Women, What Katy Did and Anne of Green Gables. I read them all until the covers fell off.

The only thing that is better than reading, is writing. Bringing to life characters that you love so much that finishing the book, leaving them to get on with their lives without you, is the hardest thing.....

I started writing when my children were small and my engineer husband, John, was working abroad. We'd met working in Africa and had travelled the world together before settling down to raise our family.

My first romance, An Image of You, HR # 141, was set in Kenya, in a place I knew well, and was plucked from the slush pile because the feisty feminist heroine made my editor laugh. Emotion touched with humor has been the hallmark of my books ever since.
Now we live in the house that John built for us in Wales. The landscape is magical, with soft, misty hills, sudden rocky outcrops and crumbling castles. This is Carmarthenshire, the land of Merlin and, according to legend, half a mile from our home King Arthur and his knights are sleeping in a cave, waiting for a bell to be rung to summon them to action. It's nice to know that help is so close at hand should we ever need it!

AWARDS

Romantic Times
“Love & Laughter”
Career Achievement Award WINNER.
Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year 2004 Nominee.

Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year 2003 Nominee.

Wedded in a Whirlwind
Best Short Contemporary 2008, Award of Excellence, Colorado Chapter if RWA
Nominee

The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride

Best Harlequin Romance 2008, Romantic Times, Nominee

The Secret Life of Lady Gabriella
Shortlisted for the RNA’s Romance Prize, 2008
Shortlisted as Best Harlequin Romance 2007, Romantic Times

The Marriage Miracle
Winner of the RITA 2006 Best Short Contemporary Romance Romance Writers of America
Winner of Cata-romance Reviewers' Choice Award

A Family of His Own
Winner of the RNA Romance Prize 2005 Romantic Novelists' Association, UK
Winner of the Best Harlequin Romance 2004 Romantic Times BOOKclub
Shorlisted for RITA 2005 Best Short Contemporary Romance

Romance Writers of America
Cata-romance Reviewers' Choice Award

The Bridesmaid's Reward
Nominated by Romantic Times as Best Harlequin Romance 2004
Listed as Best Top Ten Books at Curvy Novels Fan Website
Finalist in the 2004 Golden Quill Award
Shortlisted for the RNA’s Romance Prize, 2004

The Ordinary Princess
Winner of the CAPA Award at The Romance Studio

The Tycoon's Takeover
Finalist 2003 RITA Traditional Category

City Girl in Training
Finalist 2003 RITA Traditional Category

The Bachelor's Baby
Finalist 2002 RITA Traditional Category
Finalist 2002 Booksellers' Best Award, Traditional Category

Her Ideal Husband
Finalist 2002 HOLT Medallion Award Traditional Category

The Best Man & the Bridesmaid
Winner 2001 RITA Traditional Category
Finalist 2001 Booksellers' Best Award Traditional Category

The Baby Plan
Finalist 2001 National Readers' Choice Award Traditional Category

His Little Girl
Finalist 2000 RITA Traditional Category

soon

Breathless · 24-06-11, 12:04 AM