Lisa Loucks-Christenson Media Syndicate News — Lisa Loucks Christenson

 CoyWolf Entertainment is happy to announce the forthcoming book, Escape from the Haunted Carnival, Book 5, Hallowink Hollow by Lisa Loucks-Christenson.

We didn’t publish Book 4, The Haunted Carnival in 2020, because we wanted to bring that book, along with the sequel to it out together, so the fans didn’t have to wait an entire year for the ending. 

Lisa Loucks-Christenson is creating the cover illustration today, October 1, 2021, for the fifth book in the Hallowink Hallow Series, a best-selling series, in a genre she never expected to enter: horror.

Providing complications don’t arise like her experiences in the past, she hopes to compete this book, creating one Post-it note per day, for the next 31 days.

Loucks-Christenson went septic on the first day of the annual Inktober contest in 2018. She often jokes at how the cover she created for the second book in the series takes the award for the worst illustration of her life.

What her fans didn’t know, she created it after coming home from working in her gallery/bookstore all day, and was deathly ill. She didn’t want to miss creating the first illustration for the month so she reached for her pen and Post-it note and began drawing with a high fever, deep chills and doubling over in guttural pain, she drew.

While en route to the emergency room, she was brushing up against the cryptids of her story as her temperature neared 104 degrees, and minutes before she’d end up in an emergency room fighting for her life. Through sepsis, through surgery and recovery, Lisa never missed a deadline and completed the book on 10/31/2018 and published it on Amazon just hours later so it would be ready for her fans’ Halloween evening read.

 CoyWolf Entertainment is happy to announce the forthcoming book, Escape from the Haunted Carnival, Book 5, Hallowink Hollow by Lisa Loucks-Christenson.

We didn’t publish Book 4, The Haunted Carnival in 2020, because we wanted to bring that book, along with the sequel to it out together, so the fans didn’t have to wait an entire year for the ending. 

Lisa Loucks-Christenson is creating the cover illustration today, October 1, 2021, for the fifth book in the Hallowink Hallow Series, a best-selling series, in a genre she never expected to enter: horror.

Providing complications don’t arise like her experiences in the past, she hopes to compete this book, creating one Post-it note per day, for the next 31 days.

Loucks-Christenson went septic on the first day of the annual Inktober contest in 2018. She often jokes at how the cover she created for the second book in the series takes the award for the worst illustration of her life.

What her fans didn’t know, she created it after coming home from working in her gallery/bookstore all day, and was deathly ill. She didn’t want to miss creating the first illustration for the month so she reached for her pen and Post-it note and began drawing with a high fever, deep chills and doubling over in guttural pain, she drew.

While en route to the emergency room, she was brushing up against the cryptids of her story as her temperature neared 104 degrees, and minutes before she’d end up in an emergency room fighting for her life. Through sepsis, through surgery and recovery, Lisa never missed a deadline and completed the book on 10/31/2018 and published it on Amazon just hours later so it would be ready for her fans’ Halloween evening read.

Loucks-Christenson says, "If nothing else, I promise my fans who follow my Hallowink Hollow Series something I couldn't give them last year . . . I only had 31 days. This year, I'll give them the escape!" 

Book Publisher: CoyWolf Entertainment™

Author, Photographer, and Illustrator: Lisa Loucks-Christenson

Series: Stories of the Whitewater Valley, Minnesota

Pages:144 pages | color illustrations, sketches, and photos

Formats: e-book, paperback, and hardcover.

ISBN-13:  978-1-970165-05-0  | Hardcover

Price: $32.00 USD      

Release: February 10, 2022       

Summary

A wildlife documentary recorded in the Whitewater Valley—in The Blufflands of southeast Minnesota. The true story of a Muscovy Duck who followed a unique path into the wild and our hearts. 

Hapless Harry, the Minnesota Muscovy Duck, is the diary of a duck’s life, documented with real photos, illustrations, and hand-drawn comics created by the author and based on her unlikely hero.

BLURB

The true story of a Minnesota Muscovy Duck, this documentary was created as a photo record, diary, sketchbook, and memory of sorts of our time together in the spring and summer of 2009.

In the shadows of the scum-covered pond behind some swamp plants, the moment this author realized it was a Muscovy Duck peeking out, Hapless Harry’s future looked short.

Without a single flight feather, this extraordinary duck gave rise to the spirits of others, speaking their language, connecting with their hearts, and sharing answers to their every call.

We don’t know how Hapless Harry made it to shore through tributaries, ponds, or streams. But he and this author would not have crossed paths had he traveled in any other direction—or just a few miles further north to the Mississippi River.

During Hapless Harry’s brief visit here on earth, he taught us a lot about the human condition, how friends came in all shapes, sizes, and species. All their adventures are here, as witnessed and recorded through the eyes of a nature journalist covering her daily outdoor beat.

The author hopes this story will continue blessing those who find it, a reason to visit and re-read Hapless Harry: The Minnesota Muscovy Duck Documentary. A duck, who, in retrospect, may not have been such a lost duck after all.

“Finally, a story from nature where the underdog fights and wins a few battles anyway, before their last departure.” Lisa Loucks-Christenson

Lisa Loucks-Christenson is the president of Story Antics Personalized Books™ and owner of Story Antics® Australian Trademark and Children's Book Marketplace. 

Lisa bought the assets from Lara Solomon founder and Chief Storyteller for the brand and brought them to the USA. All work created here and forward is illustrated, written, created in the USA.

The list of books Loucks-Christenson bought in the asset sale include recipe books, environmental, family, holidays and more. There were 18 books included in the sale, in which Christenson is redeveloping into American English, to be released in the USA. 

Loucks-Christenson has written and illustrated five books new titles for the personalized division of Story Antics, since acquiring Story Antics in late March 2021. They are co-branded with her Bow Wow Detectives® imprint and series that she is the creator for. 

UPCOMING STORY ANTICS PERSONALIZED BOOKS:

His Name is Scooter!

VALENTINE'S ADVENTURES:

Museum Monday!

Blustery Tuesday!

Faire Friday!

Stowaway Saturday!

Shipwreck Sunday!

Wednesday: TBA

Thursday: TBA

Each titles is created in watercolor, watercolor pencils, ink by Lisa Loucks-Christenson, who is completing a book every month for this line. Lisa writes for several series, mostly Christian inspirational, suspense, supernatural. 

Two more titles (not announced as of 9/9/2021) for Wednesday and Thursday, and these two books will complete the Valentine's Adventures of the Week Series. More books featuring Valentine are planned. Valentine is a Chihuahua and real Ambassador for Loucks-Christenson's Bow Wow Detectives® line of books, art, cards, Photo Traders, and more.

26 books, more titles in progress. Loucks-Christenson has a series of graphic novels planned, where customers can add their family or friends names (from her pool of names) into the action and adventures. This line will be released in 2022.

Valentine's Adventures 

Book One

Written and Illustrated by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

32 Original illustrations created in watercolor

Merchandise: art cards, loose prints, clothing, pillows, matted, framed art, art book

PERSONALIZE this story with your dog

Published through Story Antics Personalized Books™, your dogs name, and select characters can be changed to your preferred names. Pricing starts at $54.95 and up.

DON'T EAT BEES! 

Written and Illustrated in original pastels by Lisa Loucks-Christenson

Release: 12/23/2019

Publisher: Bow Wow Detectives® imprint of Book Entree™

DON'T EAT BEES! Dale, the bee-eating German Shepherd, hits pay dirt when he unwittingly snatches up a tasty queen bee, and later, with the guidance of the queen bee's sister, Dale is offered the deal of a lifetime and beyond if he can promise to stop eating the local bees and raiding their hive—but can the foolhardy dog give up his bee-chasing and bee-eating habits forever and accept his heavenly reward...for all eternity?

Find out in Lisa Loucks-Christenson's DON'T EAT BEES!, a fictional tale told through 21 original pastel illustrations, which shares the heart of a dog as he learns about friendship, sacrifice, and their earthly and heavenly rewards.

Meet Dale, the authors' bee-eating German Shepherd, who unflinchingly ate as many bees as he could catch—all through his lifetime. Dale, trained for outdoor field work, for protection, and as Lisa’s companion, inspired this story, as well as the sequel, HEAVEN CAN REST!