The highlight of 2023 for Lizzie was being named Indie Champion of the Year 2023 by the Romantic Novelists’ Association

After thirty-four years as a primary school teacher, Lizzie decided it was time to find out if she had what it took to become a published author. Leaving the chalk face behind, she joined the Romantic Novelists’ Association where a famous author encouraged her to write from the heart and not focus too overtly on what she ‘believed’ agents and publishers were looking for. Lizzie then formed New Romantics press with three other members of the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme and chose the self-publishing route. It was the best decision she ever made. She finished Tall, Dark and Kilted and published it in 2012 and since then has published Boot Camp Bride, Scotch on the Rocks, Girl in the Castle, Take Me, I’m Yours and Harper’s Highland Fling and Dark Highland Skies which echoes her love of her homeland in every page.