A Thrilling Book Launch with Alie & Hejsa Christensen

Join us at Blue Heron Books on Sunday, October 23rd from 1 – 4 pm as we launch the fabulous new book from local authors Alie and Hejsa Christensen.

1:00 pm – Alie and Hejsa in conversation followed by a Q & A
2:00 -4:00 pm – book signing and socializing

John “JP” Hancock’s day just got a whole lot worse. After a nasty breakup and being scammed into an acting job that doesn’t exist, JP suddenly finds himself the unwitting victim of an identity theft that has Detective Nya Grey hot on his heels for multi-million-dollar real estate fraud he didn’t commit.

ALIE CHRISTENSEN aspired to write novels since she was a child but took some curious turns getting there. She started writing a book by kerosene lamp while living in a log cabin in the wilderness, but abandoned living plant-to-mouth, opting for urban comfort and a career as a corporate, periodical and speech writer, including writing supplements for The Globe and Mail.

She raised four children, Tove, Hejsa, Hayden and Kaylen, and has three grandchildren. She lives with her husband, David, in both Thornhill and Uxbridge, Ontario.

HEJSA CHRISTENSEN‘s pursuit of extreme sports oddly brought her love of writing into focus. Her first published article was on the Eco-Challenge race she did in Fiji with her brothers. She has since published articles about trekking the Amazon, crossing the Atlantic on a yacht (once in a hurricane), competing around the world in taekwondo, and other adventures. She is much safer focusing on writing novels with her mother. She holds an MA in environmental geography and an MFA in creative writing from UBC, where she won the Random House/Hazlitt Award. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the EVENT Magazine Non-Fiction Contest.

She lives in Port Perry, Ontario with her husband, Giles, daughter, Taia, their dog, and various chickens and ducks.