Janet Kay Jensen's Blog, page 2
May 30, 2019
About sensible shoes...
I have "surgical" ankles, feet and toes. They've had a total of seven surgeries. Painful. I hope that era is over. They are what they are. In the meantime, I have found the perfect "surgical shoe." It doesn't allow my toes to reach the end of the shoe. They remain untouched, unbattered as I walk. And they can get wet.
They're like waterproof Mary Janes, I guess, but it's all about comfort.
They're like waterproof Mary Janes, I guess, but it's all about comfort.
The valley grieves
I've neglected this blog for a while. I'll blog more frequently on a variety of subjects---whatever comes to mind. First, though, some sad news:
I went to a workshop at the Logan Library yesterday and in the parking lot a helicopter droned overhead and the KSL News van was parked in front of the adjacent police station. It confirmed what I'd been dreading. There was to be a press conference. I kept on walking.
I've forgotten how to embed a link, but here's the story. She was only 5 years old. L...
I went to a workshop at the Logan Library yesterday and in the parking lot a helicopter droned overhead and the KSL News van was parked in front of the adjacent police station. It confirmed what I'd been dreading. There was to be a press conference. I kept on walking.
I've forgotten how to embed a link, but here's the story. She was only 5 years old. L...
October 10, 2016
October 3, 2016
Missing: Zina Martin
Why is Zina Martin, 16, standing beside the highway two miles from the polygamous hamlet of Gabriel's Landing, Utah, with $13.84 in her pocket? Follow her journey as she leaves the only home she has ever known and becomes the woman she was destined to become. Gabriel's Daughtersa novelbyJanet Kay Jensen
September 21, 2013Jolly Fish Presswww.jollyfish.com
September 19, 2016
I'm a Fixator
Book Reviews: I'm a Fixator
Some authors don't read reviews of their own books. Others fixate on them. I'm a Fixator. probably because I've only written a couple of novels. I like to read nice things about my books. Five star reviews make my day. But there is grade inflation on how many stars a book receives. Your friends and family will award five stars because they love you. Other readers may not (they may or may not love you, and they may or may not award your book with five stars). Bu...
September 5, 2016
Foreword Magazine's review
Gabriel's Daughters
Reviewed by Michelle Anne Schingler
August 26, 2016Gabriel’s Daughters is a lovely and optimistic story about the uncrushable nature of women’s spirituality.Janet Kay Jensen’s Gabriel’s Daughters is the imaginative tale of a young girl who breaks away from the expectations of her rigid religious community to live a life with more possibilities.
At sixteen, Zina knows that her artistic dreams will have to be put on hold soon so that she can marry Cyrus, a...
Reviewed by Michelle Anne Schingler
August 26, 2016Gabriel’s Daughters is a lovely and optimistic story about the uncrushable nature of women’s spirituality.Janet Kay Jensen’s Gabriel’s Daughters is the imaginative tale of a young girl who breaks away from the expectations of her rigid religious community to live a life with more possibilities.
At sixteen, Zina knows that her artistic dreams will have to be put on hold soon so that she can marry Cyrus, a...
August 27, 2016
The review is in from Kirkus
Kirkus Review: Gabriel's Daughters
Questions of faith and family haunt a young woman fleeing from her isolated polygamist community.In this follow-up to 2007’s Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys, Jensen follows Zina Martin, the sister of the previous novel’s protagonist. Faced at age 16 with becoming a plural wife to an older man, Zina embarks on a doomed affair that leaves her alone and pregnant. Desperate, she abandons Gabriel’s Landing, her sheltered polygamist com...<![endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]>
August 26, 2016
The review is in from Kirkus
Kirkus Review
Questions of faith and family haunt a young woman fleeing from her isolated polygamist community.In this follow-up to 2007’s Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys, Jensen follows Zina Martin, the sister of the previous novel’s protagonist. Faced at age 16 with becoming a plural wife to an older man, Zina embarks on a doomed affair that leaves her alone and pregnant. Desperate, she abandons Gabriel’s Landing, her sheltered polygamist community in Utah. In th...<![endif]--><!--[if gte vml 1]>
July 26, 2016
Have you written YOUR obituary yet? Consider the alternatives....
Here’s mine, more or less, and a pox on any of my family who consider altering it. My reasons for authoring it were quite reasonable: names and dates and facts will will be accurate, (some of the novels are nonexistent at this writing) and there is no suggestion of sainthood.
Janet Kay Craner Jensen passed away (actually, she died) on ___________. She was born April 3, 1951, a surprise, to Darwin Kay and Lorene Ethel Miller Craner, in Berkeley, California. Her first recorded senten...
