Lisa Loucks-Christenson Bylines, Comics, Contest Wins, Environmental Books, Investigative Books

 

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Lisa Loucks-Christenson's River of Truths Column 

Photo: Clean Fiction Magazine, Autumn 2023 

River of Truths Column By Lisa Loucks-Christenson

 

Photo: Clean Fiction Magazine, Spring 2022, Pg. 1,

River of Truths Column By Lisa Loucks-Christenson

Photo: Clean Fiction, Pg. 2,  Spring 2022

River of Truths Column By Lisa Loucks-Christenson 

 

Photo: Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter 2023

River of Truths Column Lisa Loucks-Christenson

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CONTESTS 

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Christenson's 2nd Place Tie for Clean Fiction Fan Art Contest

Donnie Destin in Worm Moon is written and illustrated by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

A western set in the blufflands of Minnesota. 

Lisa Loucks-Christenson's The Skater

Cover illustration and book, 9th place winner

12/22/2023: Lisa Loucks-Christenson won a first place ribbon for her story, Cold Chances, a 75 word Flash Fiction Contest https://www.fanstory.com/contestdetails.jsp?id=110193

 

12/23/2023: Lisa Loucks-Christenson tied for second place  with her 50 word flash fiction story, My Baby Starling https://www.fanstory.com/displaystory.jsp?id=1112966

 

 

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Chrsitenson's Double Award-Winning Book, Don't Eat Bees! 

 

Photo: Award-winning illustration (3rd place), FanArtReview

Wolf in Field, an illustration for Lisa's Wolves of Whitewater Falls, Cattle Rustlers of North Fork.

https://www.fanartreview.com/displaystory.jsp?id=625441

 

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LISA LOUCKS-CHRISTENSON POETRY

 

Photo: Tearsheet from Clean Fiction, Winter 2022, Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Poem, Old Buck

Poem January Math by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

and Courtly Cottontails™ by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

Spring 2022 Clean Fiction Magazine

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LISA LOUCKS-CHRISTENSON COMICS

"How Do You LIke My Hat?" 

Courtly Cottontails™ By Lisa Loucks-Christenson
#12-05-2021

 

Courtly Cottontails™ by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

 

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Courtly Cottontails

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Chrisenson's Toads of Telemark (Christian Comic)

 

 Photo: Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Courtly Cottontails

Book Illustration, Adventures of the Courtly Cottontails, Our First Christmas

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Courtly Cottontails 

Clean Fiction Magazine, Winter 2022

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LISA LOUCKS-CHRISTENSON'S WILDLIFE CONCERNS AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS BOOKS

Lisa Loucks-Christenson creates and publishes books that educate, inspire, and bring others back into the outdoors. 

One series Lisa is writing is called, The Adventures of Valentine and Allie (Valley and Allie) that featuring her beloved Chihuahua and her starling, a rescue bird sharing wildlife concerns and bringing  environmental awareness to readers.  

 

This is the real Valentine and Allie, unposed, this is really how they are together. Tending Monarchs, Book 2, in their series is their fictional adventure. © 2022-2024 Lisa Loucks-Christenson IP Holdings Estate All Rights Reserved.

 

StoryAntics.com and StoryAnticsPersonalizedBooks.com

 

This is a personalized book, featuring names from our database and characters that resemble characters you want to feature. This book is personalized with the name, Alfie, but it could be Susan, Charlie, Jacob, any name we have in our collection. This book teaches reader about the importance of recycling. 

 

PERSONALIZED EDUCATIONAL SERIES (formerly published in Australia)

Published by Story Antics® and Proctor & Gamble

Story Antics Personalized Book featuring any name from our database, with characters that you select from our database that most closely resembles the person you want to include as the main character.

William finds out why washing his hands is important to get rid of germs and viruses, and how to wash his hands properly while singing.  A great story that really engages children around the concept of germs and viruses. 

 

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INVESTIGATIVE WORK (RELEASED AND UPCOMING)

 

 

TEN FEET UNDER THE CANARY GRASS

Cover Blurb:

As the seasons passed, the grass wherever I walked was a shade lighter—not greener, a color reserved for newbies—but also taller, thicker, and deeper. It was like staring toward the ocean in search of the horizon; the grass had no visible end. When I walked away, 13 years later, I felt no desire to look back and see if I had changed, for I knew I had. My inner self was something I was carrying with me, confident and with my desires fulfilled. As I took my first step onto the highway, departing the trail at mile marker 45, I did so knowing that the grasslands behind me would forever be a mirror for my experiences.

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Lisa Loucks-Chrisrenson's Walk The Burn: Beauty & True Crime

#1 in  Photo Essays and #1 in Natural Resource Law on Amazon

Photo: Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Walk The Burn: Beauty & True Crime, Volumen 1

#1 in Environment and Natural Resource Law 

WALK THE BURN BLURB

Nothing bad happened to me the first week of WALK THE BURN, just a guy standing behind the tree branches by my truck while I was heading out from my day at the eagle nest. He eyed me as I stepped out of the grasslands. I kept walking through the open woods, keeping my chin up to preserve my stoical expression, trying not to show a trace of fear.

After I stepped off the grassland and onto the blacktop, I had officially entered Minnesota State Highway 74, the road that ran between the parcels of state land. As I walked closer to my truck, I was ready to break another chain in my life and snatch up the bottle of pepper spray, a one-inch brushed steel can of trust that dangled just inches away from my face on the breastplate of my tripod. My check-out counter special that caught my attention twice in one day.

That’s what I thought about as it reflected the light of the afternoon sun into my eyes. Maybe the light beams hitting my vision were God’s way of saying He was nearer than He appeared. My thoughts waved between hoping it was Him or someone he sent.

I watched his face and his dead stare closely, expecting him to move at any moment. My pocket-sized mace didn’t pack enough power to cause a tear––probably mine in a lightning fast altercation. At that moment, I realized how inadequate and undersized its value was. Was my life not worth more than a one ounce bottle of this false sense of security?

A spray bottle dressed in a white label and with ingredients that may as well have included fleeting hope. A handful of stinging nettles could inflict more harm––if only they were at a height I could grab at; I’d take their sting without a second of hesitation. For the first time since seeing the man, I was fully aware of the situation I was walking into.

I kept walking. I tightened my grip on my tripod, the same one I’d use in the future, in 2007, when I’d become future me, to protect myself from a cougar running behind me, then alongside me before it jumped at the face of my future me.

 

Just in case I didn’t get out of the woods I reached down pressing the shutter on my Canon camera hanging over my shoulder and across my hip, I snapped at least a ten shots of him, trusting the autofocus was working and someone would see the photos if something happened to me and I could leave the camera behind.

The man was about 25 feet away. He continued to observe me, but he didn’t move. His eyes lifted and dropped as he began sizing me up. I hated when men did that disrespect my existence as a woman didn’t measure up to his standards. The Whitewater Valley didn’t have cell phone coverage, so I didn’t bring a phone with me. I repeated my passcode in my head so I didn’t blank out if he came at me as I neared my truck. I kept my eyes looking toward my truck, hoping he’d think I didn’t see him.

I felt myself tensing as I entered my door lock code, 05975, into the keypad on a truck that was as seasonal as my journey into the first couple of years in the valley. I entered my truck, locking the doors, and looked ahead into the turnaround and stared at what had to be his truck. Using my eagle eyesight––I memorized his plate. I still remember it. He followed me for 15 years.

It turns out, per a Minnesota State Trooper, he was a pot farmer, known in the area to law enforcement for his farms. I didn’t overstep his boundary line that day, or care that I was on his turf that first week: I marched right over his divide and I continued to walk anywhere I wanted to walk in those miles of public land, and also the private land I’d secured permission to use during my projects there over the next 15 years of my life.

WALK THE BURN started out as a 30-day documentary showing the daily changes following a controlled burn. A photo essay documenting the actual fire and the black canvas it left behind in the ghost town I studied, now a wildlife refuge that superseded the former town of Beaver, Minnesota.

It’s a story about how life rises from the ashes and into a picture-perfect summer. Ironically, it became a crime and faith story about how God used it to break me into His service; transforming me into someone He could use to serve other people that were hurting deeper and broken harder than me.

I’m Walking My Journey!™––Lisa Loucks-Christenson

This is Lisa Loucks-Christenson’s unique faith-walk. It’s her adventures as she earned the fad names: The Town Joke, The Nature Photographer, The Bug Lady, The Eagle Lady, names that grew into The Lady of Whitewater. WALK THE BURN includes her first steps into the first seven seasons covering a controlled burn and what followed in the former town of Beaver, Minnesota, a ghost town in southeastern Minnesota. These are the opening stories she experienced there. This is her GOD ON A HARLEY meets GRIZZLY ADAMS dining with CRIMINAL MINDS while inspired by TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL.

Lisa Lisa Loucks-Christenson is a photojournalist and member of the ASMP and NATJA and she shot over two million images while covering her documentaries in the Whitewater Valley in southeastern Minnesota.

Lisa’s credits include most major publishers and imprints, news outlets, magazines, trade and her own publishing houses: Esquire, Woman’s World, Self, Harcourt, Diversion, Career World, HSUS Kind News, Disney, Pearson, IBM, Christian Schools International, Travel World Magazine, Trips & Journeys, NBC KTTC-TV, KAAL-TV Channel 6 News, KIMT Channel 3 News, WEAU Channel 13 News Eau Claire, Post-Bulletin, Ron Schara’s Minnesota Bound and more. 

Since 2006, Lisa has been the voice behind various shows, live and pre-recorded, including her own podcasts syndicated on iTunes, Bluebrry, Voice America, and various internet sites and terrestrial stations over the years. As time allows, Lisa continues to interview celebrities and entertainers, authors, detectives, businesses owners and others.  Her featured guests include: Aaron Neville, Foghat, Jan Fedarcyk, Captain and Tennille, Kathy Ireland, Charlie Daniels, Porter Wagoner, Ron Ferber, Tom Wilson (Ziggy), Veggie Tales, Beverly Swerling, Oakridge Boys, B.J. Daniels, Jean Craighead George, Dick and Dee Dee, Jim Owen, Brian White, Richie Mcdonald, Ray Stevens, and many others.

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Lisa's Dog Team: Team Shepherd

 

My dogs protected me through my projects for as long as they could walk––their entire lives. I will always be a better person because I shared our days together as companions who never flinched at teaching me how to fully enjoy my spirit of adventure.                       

         

 

Dale is the inspiration behind Lisa Loucks-Christenson's double award-winning and #1 best-selliing story, Don't Eat Bees!