Catherine T Wilson

'My first lasting love? Hmm, I was fourteen and a friend handed me a book about a 15thC heroine in France during the Hundred Years War and I fell in love with everything medieval. But maybe it didn’t start there. Come to think of it, when I was younger I devoured Alan Garner’s tales of sleeping knights in 'The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,' progressing to King Arthur and Ivanhoe, but somehow that French heroine always stayed with me.’

Catherine lives on a small bushland property, on a mountain range west of Brisbane, and yes, you only have to walk into her house to see her first love. Pictures of maidens on horseback grace the walls, and every corner and mantel is filled with knights and battle axes.

In 2003 Catherine met a woman online by accident who had the same name. A friendship was forged and became a writing partnership in a series of books called 'Lions and Lilies.' The first book 'The Lily and the Lion' was published in 2012 and the story continues in 'The Order of the Lily' followed by 'The Gilded Crown.' The authors are currently working on the fourth in this series due for release in 2017.

In 2014 'The Lily and the Lion' won the ‘Best Historical Romance’ in USA's coveted Chanticleer Chatelaine Award followed by another win with ‘The Order of the Lily’ in 2015. 'The Gilded Crown was a finalist in 2016 and the first two books were also finalists in the Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction in 2015 and 2016. Check out what plenty of happy readers have had to say at Goodreads!

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You may visit Catherine T Wilson at www.lionsandlilies.com or https://www.facebook.com/lionsandlilies. They have a pinterest board for the pictorial side of Lions and Lilies at http://pinterest.com/lionsandlilies/ and can be found on Twitter at Catherine T Wilson @LionsandLilies1

For a really great blog try http://lionsandlilies.wordpress.com/ and of course you may follow CathyT's personal blog at http://catherinetwilson.wordpre