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Tanya Tagieff

Tasha Zima

 

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Tanya
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Tagieff
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Tasha Zima
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Tasha Zima grew up trading romance novels with her mom like sacred artifacts, rereading dog-eared paperbacks until the spines gave out. She never planned to write one herself—until a small-town girl with too much pride and not enough sleep marched into her head and refused to leave. That girl became Katie, and However Much or Little, Tasha’s first published novel, poured out like a love song she didn’t know she’d been humming for years.

Tasha has been married since 1997 to her first real love—a man with enough patience to weather her moods and enough insight to see her clearly, entirely, and always. His steady presence is the best part of her life (even if he still can’t fold a fitted sheet to save his soul).

They live in a small town in New Brunswick with a dog, a cat, and an ever-expanding list of inside jokes. All three of her housemates are male, so she’s dramatically outnumbered and fighting the patriarchy one sarcastic eyebrow at a time.

She’s always been a storyteller, but for years her ideas stayed scattered—half-formed, half-finished, tucked away in notebooks and daydreams. Then in March 2025, she gathered the pieces and built a world from them. When two close friends read The Making of a Storm and said it was good—really good—she finally found the courage to hit publish. The first of many storms was born.

Tasha Zima is, of course, a pen name. Because Tasha is a little braver, a little louder, and a little more fearless than the woman behind the pen.

That woman has done many things: studied theatre, survived a holiday shift in a chocolate factory (never again), sold insurance, manned a flea market stall, and spent years in retail.

When she’s not writing, she’s needle-felting, puzzling (both digital and jigsaw), gardening, or baking her famously addictive peanut butter oatmeal cookies and butter tarts.

Tasha is currently writing more books in the Ashby Lake series—a place where love is stubborn, slow-burning, and just wild enough to feel like home.

Follow Tasha:

Instagram: @zima.writes
Publications
However Much or Little, Looking Up, No Matter What Happens, Nothing Too Fancy, Nothing Too Tame, Frogs Fireworks & Forever, Lies Cleavage & Quantum Theory, Lakeweed Lust & Longing, The Making of a Storm, Between Breath & Breaking, FWB: Friends with Baking, The Brave One, Confessions, Hot Tubs & Second Chances
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  • Romance

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