Lisa Jensen's Blog

• To Blook Or Not To Blook

  October 23, 2009

  • I'd love to hear from the collective Red Room brain trust on this one.As I've recently discovered, a "blook" is a book posted online in serial chapters, like a blog. The idea appeals to me, harking back as it does to the grand old tradition of Dickens and Thackeray, who serialized their novels in monthly magazine installments eagerly gobbled up by the breathless public. At the end of ...
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• I Wrote The Wizard Of Oz

  October 16, 2009

  • During my formative years, way before TiVo or Netflix, we poor, media-starved cave dwellers had to depend on what the television networks dished out for our in-home entertainment. So the once-a-year broadcast of the 1939 classic movie, The Wizard Of Oz, was a colossal family event. By the time I was 11 years old, like most kids of my generation, I knew every line of dialogue by heart.Halfway ...
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• Reading Still Rocks

  October 13, 2009

  • Wow. My little novel just got the review of a lifetime from the fabulous Reading Rocks YA book review site. Here's how it starts: "I am in love with this book." If that were the entire review, I'd still be turning cartwheels (what author wouldn't?), but the reviewer actually goes into quite a bit more detail, here. I am so stoked!And while I'm at it, a thousand thanks to Red Room ...
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