Ask the Author: Lisa Jensen
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Lisa Jensen
Zoe and Jack, in "Playing The Jack," by Mary Brown. Published in 1984 and long out of print, this is a ripping romantic adventure I bought remaindered, and have loved, loved, loved ever since! Lively dialogue, deeply faceted characters who never stop growing, and a riveting pas de deux between well-matched romantic partners make this an unforgettable classic. Drop everything and go track down a copy right now!
Lisa Jensen
Dustin Hoffman in "Hook" was probably truer to the sort of foppish psychopath that J. M. Barrie created, but he is nothing like my James Hook in "Alias Hook!" I tried to give my character a more solid grounding in historical reality, a tragic past that explains some of his actions, and a more complex personality. My Hook is also younger at 43 (an age he's been stuck at for a century or two in the Neverland). And he gets to evolve into a romantic hero—at last!—when my heroine, Stella, a grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland.
Lisa Jensen
In my "day job" as a film critic a few years ago, I was reviewing a new live-action "Peter Pan" movie, and I was suddenly struck by the pathos of the Captain Hook character, a grown man stranded in a world of eternal childhood. I wondered what his life had been like before the Neverland, and what he had ever done to deserve such a fate, playing villain to a pack of bratty little boys. I found him a very witty and sympathetic character as he told me his story, and I decided I had to give him one last chance to get out of the Neverland! Which is what "Alias Hook" is all about.
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