Alias Hook (46 page)

Major thanks to Pete Wolverton and Anne Brewer at Thomas Dunne Books, for being such a pleasure to work with.

Thanks to Lia Matera, head cheerleader, for tireless enthusiasm against all odds.

And special thanks to Broos, who kept telling me, “Hurry up and write the blamed thing so I can read it!”

About the Author

Lisa Jensen is a veteran film critic and newspaper columnist from Santa Cruz, California. Her reviews and articles have appeared in
Cinefantastique, Take One,
and the
Los Angeles Times
. She also reviewed books for the
San Francisco Chronicle
for thirteen years, where her specialty was historical fiction and women’s fiction.

Her swashbuckling historical novel,
The Witch from the Sea,
was published in 2001. The story
Proserpina’s Curse,
an early extract from the novel,
Alias Hook,
was published in the summer, 2006, issue of
Paradox Magazine
.

Lisa lives in Santa Cruz with her husband, artist James Aschbacher, and their two tortie cats.