Lisa Jensen's Writings
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Short Story
Jun.20.2010
Blogspot
As a big thank-you to everyone who embraced my first historical novel, The Witch From The Sea—and for anyone else in the mood for a romantic swashbuckling adventure—I invite you to visit my new serial novel, Runaways: A Novel of Jonkanoo, now going up online.
Runaways continues the adventures of Tory Lightfoot begun in The Witch From The Sea. Ever since she was a...
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Jul.07.2009
Good Times (Santa Cruz)
It was our last night alone together in France. We sat at the table on the back porch of the old stone mill house overlooking the river Yonne, as the lengthy twilight gave way to the belated dark of a northern European evening. We lingered over the remains of our dinner with a half-drunk bottle of local Burgundy. The pliant voice of Edith Piaf (on a CD,...
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Jul.06.2009
GT Weekly (Santa Cruz)
In my favorite writing movies, reality and imagination merge in a fever of creative dementia.
In "The Hours," there's a scene to gladden the heart of any writer. Nicole Kidman plays Virginia Woolf going into her study one morning in 1923 to begin a new novel. An upright typewriter is visible in the background, but Woolf snuggles into an armchair...
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Jun.30.2009
GT Weekly (Santa Cruz)
"Where do you get your ideas?" It's the question everyone involved in the creative arts hears at some time or other, whether artist, writer, performer or musician. My artist husband, Art Boy used to answer, "The Idea Channel," until he realized people believed him, and were rushing home to check their cable listings. Inspiration is a...
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Jun.30.2009
Good Times (Santa Cruz)
What do women want? It's more than just the obvious attraction of good-looking men in puffy shirts.
In the wake of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies storming into theaters, looting and pillaging box office gold, pirates have become hip, sexy, and culturally correct. It's about time the rest of you lubbers caught up, says I. Once upon a time,...
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About Lisa
I grew up in Hermosa Beach, CA, and graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a decorative, but not especially useful B.A. in Aesthetic Studies. I launched my writing career as a film critic for the Santa Cruz alternative weekly, Good Times, a position I've held...
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Lisa’s Favorite Books
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon. The entire Harry Potter ouvre (but especially The Prisoner of Azkaban) by J. K. Rowling....