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CTP BooksAuthorsWeekApril2026D (S3EAprSpecial6) SCANDALnavian writing?
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We sit down with A.L. Jensen to get into cozy mysteries, Nordic culture, and why tiny writing choices like commas can change everything. We also hear how Midsummer Marriage and Murder builds a charming town, a midlife sleuth, and a lakeside crime into a series readers can jump into anywhere.
• Books Slash Authors Week setup and a quick behind-the-scenes intro
• Why punctuation choices like the Oxford comma matter
• Using run-on sentences and fragments on purpose in fiction
• The Hookah House Cozy Mystery Series premise and tone
• Midsummer Marriage And Murder plot setup with a wedding and a body by the lake
• Mina Halanen as a detail-driven amateur sleuth in midlife
• Nordic and Scandinavian influence plus a glossary of terms for readers
• How earlier historical fiction connects to a move toward lighter cozy mysteries
• Book coaching, writing groups, and getting your story told
• Where to find A.L. Jensen online at aljensen.com
CTP BooksAuthorsWeekApril2026D (S3EAprSpecial6) Scandalnavian writing?
Exploring more of the fascinating intersection of Activism, Community Engagement, Faith / Religion, Human Nature, Politics, Social Issues, and beyond
We sit down with A.L. Jensen to get into cozy mysteries, Nordic culture, and why tiny writing choices like commas can change everything. We also hear how Midsummer Marriage and Murder builds a charming town, a midlife sleuth, and a lakeside crime into a series readers can jump into anywhere.
• Books Slash Authors Week setup and a quick behind-the-scenes intro
• Why punctuation choices like the Oxford comma matter
• Using run-on sentences and fragments on purpose in fiction
• The Hookah House Cozy Mystery Series premise and tone
• Midsummer Marriage And Murder plot setup with a wedding and a body by the lake
• Mina Halanen as a detail-driven amateur sleuth in midlife
• Nordic and Scandinavian influence plus a glossary of terms for readers
• How earlier historical fiction connects to a move toward lighter cozy mysteries
• Book coaching, writing groups, and getting your story told
• Where to find A.L. Jensen online at aljensen.com
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00:00Hello, welcome to another episode of Perstitutionalist Podcast.
00:06I am your host, Joseph M. Leonard.
00:09That's L-E-N-A-R-D.
00:12It looks French.
00:13It's not.
00:14It's Leonard without an O.
00:17Thank you for tuning in, as Graham Norton used to say, on his show.
00:24Let's get on with the show!
00:28For those looking on the five behind-the-scenes video channels, sneak peek videos, you will
00:40see, oh, first let me say, this is a cheat intro again, kind of like I do on Saturdays
00:47if I'm presenting a video exclusive from prior, the same cheat.
00:54You'll see the same, or here on the 40-ish audio-only platforms, this same mini intro, but I am
01:06wearing the Book of Kennedy Project Carpe Diem book shirt because welcome to Books Slash Authors
01:17Week, just one week, for April of 2026.
01:23Prior, I had Books Slash Authors Weeks this time to get caught up on some back interviews
01:32of authors.
01:33I'm doing a singular Books Slash Authors Week for April 2026, Monday through Friday.
01:44Also, I want to say, at the end of each episode, I will tack on one of my newer, more
01:54recent
01:54Suno-created songs.
01:57If you remember, my dad, Ted Leonard Jr., the Poker Kings, tinyurl.com, the Poker Kings, to
02:05see that tribute page to him.
02:07He had a record deal.
02:08I used to write and record music the old way, you know, get out a piece of sheet music and
02:14write out the actual song on the sheet music, the chords, the notes, the lyrics, but all
02:25my equipment's been long sold off, but thanks to Suno AI Music System, I'm back to writing
02:35lyrics and releasing music again.
02:39Thank you, Suno.
02:41So, each day, Monday through Friday of Books Slash Authors Week, 2026, April, I will tack
02:52on a Suno-aided-created new song from Joseph and Leonard, J. Leonard, Detroit, on Suno.
03:03So, thank you to them.
03:05And I've already delayed things, so without further ado, let's get to an author.
03:11Joining me today is A.L. Jensen, and no, this is not a baseball show, this is not American
03:22League Jensen.
03:24We'll get to eventually what the A.L. is for, but she is the author of Midsummer Marriage
03:33and Murder, and I want to read this part from the release I got from Mickey Mickelson, a mutual
03:39friend, escaped to the charming small town of Lakewood, not Texas, in this delightful Scandinavian-inspired
03:53cozy mystery.
03:56Scandinavian, but is it, and you could borrow this if you haven't thought of it yourself
04:01yet.
04:01Is it Scandinavian?
04:04Oh, good one.
04:07Oh, my God.
04:08I'm totally using that.
04:11Please, by all means, yes, I graciously give that over.
04:15Just remember where you got it.
04:21Before we get into it, what is the A.L.?
04:25My actual first name is Anna Lisa, and I go by Lisa, and my historical fiction is written
04:33as Lisa Kovala, which is my name.
04:35But my husband's last name is Jensen, my kid's last name is Jensen, so I'm using all the names.
04:42Yes, I can see on the release, the cover of the book, A.L. Jensen, and I want to go
04:50into
04:51this release in a minute, but first, let's do the where were you born and raised, where
04:57are you now, significant places you may have been in between.
05:02Speaking of scandal, Navian, how much time did you spend in prison for what?
05:09Oh, yeah, I wouldn't have stories to tell, right?
05:15For the benefit of the transcript, that's a joke.
05:19She gets it.
05:20She's laughing.
05:24No, I was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, which is a mining town north of Toronto.
05:30I know it.
05:32You do?
05:33Yes, I've been through there.
05:35No kidding.
05:36It used to be considered, when I was little, like a moonscape.
05:41There were very few trees, and now it's gorgeous, it's beautiful, it's green.
05:47Because of the Canadian beer being much more alcoholic, we jokingly call it Sudsbury, right?
05:56That's right, yeah.
05:57We say Suds, and there's that song, Sudbury Saturday Night, the girls are playing bingo
06:04while the boys are getting Stinko.
06:09So we have all kinds of fun.
06:11And I'm living here now in Sudbury for the last 25 years, but there was about a decade
06:17where I was living in Ottawa, I'm going to school, and I lived in New Zealand for a year
06:23and a half in my first teaching job, and my husband and I like to travel, so we traveled
06:27a lot, especially when our kids were little, we traveled a lot with them.
06:30So I've been all over the place.
06:32But, you know, after I had my daughter, we came home because there were, you know, the
06:37grandparents, and you know how it is.
06:39You need to be in your family.
06:40So now my kids are grown and doing their things, and we're living in sort of a small area called
06:46Naughton outside of Sudbury, and it's delightful.
06:50So it's, you know, they say you can't come home again, but you can.
06:52It just looks different.
06:54Mm-hmm.
06:56Okay.
06:56Now, I want to get into the release, and here's why, from Mickey.
07:01Is it, Mickey hates Oxford commas, or what?
07:08Because at the top, Midsommar, comma, marriage, and murder.
07:14But your book cover, in my opinion, has it correct.
07:19I'm a big fan of the Oxford comma.
07:23Midsommar, comma, marriage, comma, and murder.
07:27They are three separate things, all separated, but not Midsommar, stop, marriage, and murder,
07:37stop.
07:38They are three separate things.
07:40They are.
07:41And I'm going to tell Mickey that, listen, buddy.
07:45You screwed up my title, yes.
07:49He'll love it.
07:51But, yeah, hey, you got to keep a sense of humor.
07:54But it does lead to that serious grammatical question.
08:00Do you believe in the Oxford comma or not?
08:04Yeah.
08:04The hell I was eye on.
08:06Me too.
08:07Me too.
08:08Absolutely.
08:10Because when I want to say this plus that and the other thing, there's no comma after that
08:18because it's that and the other thing.
08:20Those go together.
08:21But if it's this, that, the other thing, there's got to be a comma separates all of them.
08:29Yes?
08:30Oh, you're great.
08:30I know.
08:31And the M-dash.
08:32I'm sorry, AI.
08:33I don't care if you like to use it.
08:35I've been using it way longer than AI has.
08:37So I'm not going to give it up.
08:39Sorry.
08:41Yeah.
08:42So we both agree.
08:44And I don't really delve into it in how to write a book and get it published.
08:49I probably should have because, indeed, I mean, that's been an argument forever.
08:57Yes.
08:58How long?
08:59I mean, especially since Shakespearean times, it's been an ongoing argument.
09:05And all these decades, century plus, centuries later, we still have a divide.
09:15Absolutely.
09:16We're still arguing about the comma.
09:18And at the end of the day, as long as it makes sense and the communication is clear,
09:24but the problem is if you don't have it, sometimes that really changes the sentence.
09:28And it means something completely different.
09:30It does.
09:31Absolutely.
09:32Where you put the commas and the periods and the semicolons, parentheses, it all changes
09:40the flow.
09:41And more importantly, it could change the entire context of the statement.
09:48I agree.
09:49I love how passionate you are about punctuation.
09:52It's amazing.
09:53Oh, not that hope.
09:55So, when it comes to English, math was my favorite subject.
10:00I like your joke.
10:02I love that.
10:04But yet, here I am an author.
10:07But that's why we have editors to help with that, too.
10:12As long as someone understands what you're trying to say at the end of the day is ultimately
10:19the thing.
10:20And the other thing, since I'm on my soapbox ranting about grammar, and I'll try to remember
10:28to stick a meme I have in there to the grammar Nazis, it says, T-H-E-Y-I-R
10:40apostrophe-R-E.
10:42There are.
10:43And it says under that, T-H-E-I-R, right?
10:48So, I love that meme.
10:50I'll try to remember to put it in post.
10:52But while I'm on my grammar, so, uh-oh, I'm losing my train of thought.
10:57Uh-oh.
10:58Wah-ha-ha.
11:01But, yeah, along those lines, it was.
11:04As long as they understand what you're trying to say at the end of the day is what, oh, run
11:11-on
11:11sentence.
11:14It can't be.
11:14Yes.
11:15There's no such thing in the AP, Chicago, or Oxford-style guidebooks that define more than
11:2612 words or is a run-on sentence.
11:30It's like beauty, I've got to show.
11:32Beauty is in the eye of the holder.
11:34A run-on sentence is in the eye of the holder.
11:39In some places, you may want a long sentence because it's kind of part of the character development.
11:50So, what are your thoughts on run-on sentence?
11:54Well, I think that's the beauty of fiction because we get to play with language.
11:59And so, you can have run-on sentences that reflect what the character's thought process
12:04and how they talk.
12:05Or you can have sentences that are incomplete because they're also like, you know, we do
12:10speak in incomplete sentences.
12:12So, for dialogue, I think, you know, it works for fiction.
12:15There are some forms that I wouldn't use it.
12:17Like, I would just not use it in a, I don't know, a nonfiction book where I'm writing, I
12:22don't know, something really important to research.
12:26No, but in fiction, you can play.
12:28A technical manual.
12:29Yeah.
12:30Right.
12:30That might be confusing.
12:31But for fiction, we get to have fun with language.
12:34And we know the rules, but we can play with them.
12:37And it's because we're authentic.
12:39So, it's fun to do that.
12:40The Grammar Police, I would imagine, if you remember, Flowers for Algernon, that book,
12:49I would imagine that drives them crazy.
12:52And I would imagine the person who wrote that giving it to an editor, it drove that editor
12:57crazy.
12:57Right.
12:58Well, where am I supposed to be correcting the grammar?
13:02And where am I not supposed to be?
13:05That's right.
13:05Because that's part of the story.
13:07A hundred percent.
13:09And that changes over the years.
13:11Like, the styles change and what readers want and what we feel is accessible.
13:18Like, it's going to change.
13:19Like, 50, 60 years ago, that looked different.
13:21And now we're like, oh, we don't like that so much.
13:24You know, so we have to kind of, like, language is always changing.
13:27And how we express ourselves is always changing.
13:29So, I think we have to kind of pay attention to that, too.
13:31But at the end of the day, knowing the rules, knowing how language is structured, then when
13:36you play with it, it makes sense and you're doing it purposefully.
13:39You're not just making mistakes, which is a whole other thing.
13:41That's when you need your editor to pop in there.
13:44I'm going to tell my Shakespeare joke because it'll set up something else.
13:48But this is a good place to interject.
13:51A Joe original jokester Joe joke.
13:54To be or not to be is truly the question.
13:58Because if it's to be, I got bingo.
14:06But I tell the joke to set up the point, I've been in this argument with others, and therefore
14:14I recorded a Christitutional's video exclusive on it, tinyurl.com slash CTP on BitChute.
14:23I am not Shakespeare.
14:25These are not Shakespearean times.
14:27I write, like, it was an argument over my The Book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem.
14:35I'm not writing, I'm not trying to be Shakespeare.
14:39If you want to read Shakespeare, read Shakespeare.
14:42Those were different times.
14:45I write for the people in the here and now.
14:49That's right, yeah.
14:50And you're always going to find your readers.
14:52Like, every style, every genre, every, whatever the content is, there are people out there
14:58who want that.
14:59So, you know, you're not writing for one specific audience, like, all audiences.
15:04You're writing for a more specific audience, and who will appreciate what you're doing.
15:08So I think that's amazing.
15:09In fact, I may quote Shakespeare in The Book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem, Henry VIII,
15:14but I'm not writing like Henry VIII's book.
15:21Oh, okay.
15:23So, now, a whole lot of ranting and raving about stuff I would have never actually intended
15:29to ask you, so.
15:32A lot of conversations go.
15:34Yeah.
15:35Ten minutes in, let's actually talk about Midsommar, comma, Marriage, comma, and Murder.
15:42What was the genesis of that book?
15:46And we hinted to it, the delightful, Scandinavian-inspired, cozy mystery.
15:53So, I'm actually, this is the second book in the Hookah House Closing Mystery Series.
15:58I'm Finnish-Canadian, so I'm Nordic descent, and I love all the Nordic and Scandinavians.
16:03Gesundheit.
16:04Right.
16:04Thank you, yes.
16:05Thank you very much.
16:06You know how it is.
16:07And so, I love all that stuff.
16:10I love the style, I love the traditions, I love all of it.
16:15So, I wrote book one, Hookah and Homicide, which takes place in this, you know, Lakewood,
16:21this small, quaint town that is fictional, very cozy, and a midlife woman comes back to
16:27her hometown to start this business with her friend called Hookah House, and it's like an
16:31event center.
16:32And so, in book two, Midsummer Marriage and Murder, they have their first wedding on site.
16:40And, of course, they're very excited about it because they've already had one murder at
16:44Hookah House.
16:44They don't need any more problems.
16:45So, they're waiting, like, this wedding's going to be great.
16:47And it is.
16:48It's amazing.
16:49However, shortly after, they do find a body in an Eskoka chair by the lake.
16:56And now, they're steeped into a new murder mystery case, and Minna is, again, having
17:01to be an amateur sleuth and figure out what happened.
17:05I envision this as could be the next Knives Out movie.
17:09Ooh, would that be fun?
17:11Oh, I would love that.
17:14Amazing.
17:15Call the director.
17:19Who's the primary character?
17:22Want to be careful to not give spoilers, but at the same time, enough of a tease to interest
17:29people in the book.
17:31Yeah.
17:32So, the primary character is Minna Hallinan.
17:35She is a Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian, who has been a designer, like a Scandinavian designer
17:43in Toronto for decades.
17:45And she's divorced, and her child is grown up, and she comes back to her hometown.
17:50And she, you know, she's got a really good design eye.
17:53So, attention to details, which is great for an amateur sleuth.
17:56And her best friend, Christy, is, like, organized and plans events and is all into that kind
18:01of thing.
18:02So, the two of them kind of have always gotten into some scrapes together, even as kids.
18:06And now, they're back together in their midlife.
18:09And not that much has changed.
18:12One is getting into scrapes, the other one's supporting the other one.
18:16So, Minna is really sort of steeped in her Nordic and Scandinavian cultures.
18:20And I love to just infuse the story with those little things.
18:24But at the end of the day, she's figuring things out again.
18:28She's, you know, at a new stage in her life.
18:30She needs to, like, get the confidence and trust herself to start a new venture here with
18:37her business partner.
18:38So, it's been really fun to write her, because I can see her in a lot of the midlife women
18:43I know.
18:44This is a second installment.
18:47So, is there a third book in the works?
18:51There is.
18:52The third one is going to be out in August.
18:54It's called Murder by Nordic Design.
18:57So, I love that.
18:58And I don't know if you know about fans, but they love their saunas.
19:02On the property, they're going to build a sauna.
19:05There's going to be, obviously, something bad will happen.
19:08True.
19:09Bad event as well.
19:10So, it's fun to just come up with new ideas for what can happen on the property as they're
19:17developing it, as they're trying to make it successful.
19:19And then these kind of incidents happen that pull them, like, Minna has to, like, figure
19:23out what happens.
19:24And, but you'll see the community.
19:26You'll see different characters reappearing.
19:29And there's some fun ones that are different, like, there's the Northern Spirit Band, and
19:34they have some really creepy characters, and the local coffee shop, and all the kinds of
19:38things that Cozy Mystery fans love, infused into this town of Lakewood.
19:42Yeah.
19:43But a little bit of a spin, because it's got that Nordic and Scandinavian influence.
19:46But it is a true and proper series where the primary main characters carry over.
19:54Unlike my Life and Living series, I'm writing my fifth one, and it will drop in May.
20:01There's different primary characters in each.
20:04It's a series in name only, so to say.
20:09They're all life and living related, but different characters.
20:14So, but yours is a true traditional way people would understand a series.
20:20Like a Potter, the Potter series carries over, Clancy, the Jack Ryan carries over through
20:29all the books.
20:30I think so.
20:31I think you can think of it like you can read one individually, and the whole entire story
20:35is there.
20:35But the next book brings those characters forward, and both like internally, how they're changing
20:43as people are growing, and their relationships are growing through each book.
20:46But then the story itself is standalone.
20:49So you can read them in any order.
20:51But if you read them in the sequence, you will see how all the characters are growing and
20:55changing.
20:56Right.
20:57None of them, at least so far, have gotten to the point where you feel like a book has
21:02to be an actual continuation of the same story of a previous.
21:07You can absolutely stand alone.
21:09But like in book one, one of the, like the victim's sister, Grace, you know, she was involved
21:15in the story because she was the victim's sister.
21:17In book two, she's the bride.
21:19So she's, again, showing up, and it's about her wedding, but of course, it's actually about
21:25the murder of somebody else.
21:26Right, right.
21:27Poor Grace.
21:28I'm going to have to give her a break in book three, because she's having that.
21:34You're going to show Grace some grace.
21:38That's right.
21:39Exactly.
21:40She needs a break now, that poor girl.
21:43She needs a good life now.
21:45Couldn't resist the pun, of course.
21:48Love it.
21:49Hey, hey, Higgy.
21:52How do you?
21:53Huh?
21:54Hugga.
21:55Hugga.
21:56That's spelled H-Y-G-G-E.
21:59Hugga House.
22:00Hugga.
22:00Hugga.
22:01Hugga.
22:01Hugga.
22:02Okay, yeah.
22:02I thought.
22:02That's great.
22:03I don't know how to pronounce it, but I can't.
22:06I know.
22:07And I had, I knew that that would be an issue because it's kind of a concept that's been
22:11around a long time.
22:12It's all about closed notes and, like, creating that lovely feeling of just relaxation, and
22:16that's what they want from this house, this event center.
22:19But I knew that readers would have a hard time with the pronunciation.
22:23So I have, like, even in the first book, I have a little, a few little jokes about the
22:28way they pronounce the name, because not everyone feels great.
22:32Great way to broach that through humor and joke about it, but, because that was going
22:37to be my question.
22:38Do you indeed explain in a way how the proper pronunciation is?
22:46And you say you do, yes.
22:48I do.
22:49And in the beginning of every book, I also have Nordic terms and concepts, so like a
22:54little glossary of words with little explanations, because they are using all kinds of words,
23:00Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish.
23:03And so I just have the word and a description, so if anyone's reading and they're like, oh,
23:07what's that again?
23:08They can flip to the front.
23:09But it's just introducing some of the vocabulary and some of the words that you may have heard
23:14somewhere along the way, but just don't really necessarily understand what it means.
23:18So I thought, oh, class three will be helpful, you know?
23:22Yeah, I'm sure that drove an editor crazy, too.
23:26It's like, do you really want to use that word?
23:30Yes, I really want to use that word.
23:32Don't change it.
23:33It's there for a reason.
23:35Exactly, exactly.
23:37Yeah, for sure.
23:39Did another series or another book precede this?
23:45Yeah, so actually, I have written three published books before this.
23:51The first one was Creative Nonfiction, and it's about my dad.
23:54He was 16 when he was a Finnish merchant marine sailor during World War II.
23:59His ship was captured, and they were sent to Stutthof concentration camp.
24:03So that's a completely different story than the Cozy Mysteries.
24:07And then the second two books, Sister's Winter War and Water for Rear Souls are historical novels.
24:12And the most recent one, like Water for Rear Souls, is a historical mystery.
24:17So there was a mystery involved in that book, but not a Cozy.
24:22It was much more literary historical.
24:23But in a way, it's a little related in that there is a mystery there.
24:30Yes.
24:31Yeah, it doesn't directly relate to this series, but in a way, it almost sets up this series.
24:39Yeah, well, what's nice was because I was writing this historical novel, and it became this mystery, and I just
24:47really enjoy it.
24:47I've always loved reading mysteries.
24:49I've always loved watching them.
24:50I like Nordic Noir.
24:51I like thrillers.
24:53I like suspense.
24:53I like Cozy's.
24:54I like all of it.
24:55And I've been writing historical fiction for a long time.
24:57And then when I was like, what do I want to do next?
25:00I just wanted to write something lighter.
25:02And I thought, okay, I know I need to write the Cozy, because that is a genre that I love
25:06so much.
25:07And historical fiction, I love it so much, too.
25:10But it's years and years of research.
25:13It's years and years of writing.
25:14And it can be quite dark, whereas Cozy's are just light and fun.
25:19And I think we all need that right now.
25:21So that's why I'm leaning into that for a time being.
25:24I've been there.
25:27Most of my books come to me in a dream, but I do ask, what do I want to do
25:32next?
25:33But usually it's given to me in a dream what I'm going to do next.
25:39But I never dreamed in a – well, bad word to use there.
25:45But I never thought in a million years, Terror Strikes book would turn into a life – ongoing life and
25:55living series.
25:56But yet, that's the dreams that came.
26:00And while they're different characters, I do, like you, you know, Martin from Terror Strikes shows up in the other
26:10books, but isn't a primary character.
26:12And likewise, Kennedy in the third book shows up in the fourth book, but not the primary character in the
26:20fourth book.
26:20So there is a little continuity, but yeah, I would have never contemplated at the time doing Terror Strikes.
26:29It would turn into a life and living series.
26:32Yeah, right.
26:34That's how it happens sometimes.
26:35And I love that your readers will read a book and recognize that character and be like, oh, yeah, yeah,
26:41he was in that other story.
26:42Like, it'll bring back those stories for them.
26:44And readers love that when those things are connected, even if it's not like a traditional series.
26:49In a way, it's an Easter egg.
26:52You don't – I say all the time, you don't have to have read the other books in this series.
26:59Each book, as you said, is a standalone.
27:02But it kind of can help in a way.
27:08Anyway.
27:10Yeah.
27:14We're kind of – like I said, I had my how to write a book and get it published.
27:19So I love talking like this and giving people hints, tips, and techniques, behind-the-scenes kind of things because
27:29everybody's got a story in them.
27:32Whether they publish it or not is another thing.
27:36Yes?
27:37Totally true, right?
27:38We all have a story to tell.
27:40And sometimes we need a little bit of assistance getting that story told, whether you find a friend to talk
27:45to or a writing group.
27:46But I'm a book coach, so I work with a lot of new authors who are just, like, learning how
27:50to write.
27:51So fun, right?
27:52Like, it's just a delight to connect with people who have that story and want to tell it and need
27:57to learn how to tell it.
27:59Okay.
28:00So let's start – I try to keep shorter shows because, as I said, coined, today's Twitter and TikTok attention
28:09span.
28:10True.
28:10Right?
28:12I love it.
28:13Because, like, with all my guests, we could talk for three hours, but then the show would be too long.
28:19So to wrap things up, do you have a website for where people could find you?
28:26Yeah.
28:27People can go to LisaBookCoach at – oh, sorry, LisaKovlaBookCoach.com.
28:35I spell Kovla.
28:37Lisa has two I's, and Kovla is K-O-V-A as in Victor, A-L-A.
28:42And they can find – like, even if you look for Lisa with two I's, you're going to find me.
28:47And that's where everything is.
28:48My historical fiction, my closed industries, book coaching, all the stuff in one website.
28:53I've decided that would be easier for people.
28:55So, yeah, yeah, since it says A.L. Jensen, I'm glad we had that discussion because, yes, nowhere in here
29:06do I see Lisa with two I's.
29:10That's indeed very interesting.
29:13Yes.
29:13If you go to A.L. Jensen.com, it will bring you to the same place.
29:18A.L. Jensen.com brings you to that same website.
29:21So I just try to make sure people can find it no matter which name they use.
29:26I'm going to –
29:27For all the things.
29:29In the scroll and post edit, I will put A.L. Jensen.com just because it's easier than expecting them
29:37to remember Lisa with two I's.
29:40That's right.
29:40Because that's indeed rather odd and unique.
29:45What's the origin of the two I's in there?
29:48Yeah.
29:49So Lisa with two I's is a very actually common name in Finland.
29:54So common that I have friends named Maya Lisa.
29:57I have an Annalisa.
29:58Say Elisa.
29:59Look at this.
30:00Lisa is a name that's like Mary.
30:02It's not unusual in Finland.
30:04But here people have to do a double take.
30:06And often they say, well, I know you have two something.
30:09Is it two S's, two A's?
30:10Like they don't know.
30:12Oh, now that would be funny.
30:15One L, two I's, two S's, two A's.
30:19I've had almost that.
30:20Almost.
30:21I'm just doubling up a couple things just in case.
30:24Yeah.
30:25So A.L. Jensen.com will be a lot easier for people to handle.
30:29It's easier for folks to find.
30:31Absolutely.
30:32Yes.
30:33And Substack.
30:34I'm on Substack.com at Women Writing.
30:36So also very easy to find Women Writing on Substack.
30:39Okay.
30:39Thank you, A.L. Jensen.
30:42And next time you talk to Mickey, tell him to get his titles correct.
30:47Yeah.
30:48Yes.
30:49I'm going to give him that note.
30:50He's going to love it.
30:54All right.
30:55Take care.
30:56God bless.
30:57Aw.
30:58Great to meet you.
31:00Bye for now.
31:30Bye for now.
31:38Bye for now.
32:01Backing up the hallway.
32:05Talk loud.
32:07Say zilch.
32:08All static.
32:09No switch.
32:09I got tabs open.
32:11Deadlines choking.
32:13You just love the sound of you talking.
32:18Got nothing or substance to add.
32:21Then just go away.
32:24No time for distraction, fools.
32:27Way too much to do today.
32:31Zero really to say.
32:33Still mad.
32:35Beyond enough of you.
32:37We've had.
32:39Got nothing or substance to add.
32:42Then just go away.
32:44Go away.
32:46Go away.
32:48Go away.
32:50Go away.
32:56Go away.
32:57Go away.
32:59Go away.
33:01Go away.
33:03Every group chat flooded.
33:06You just chase that ping.
33:10You just chase that ping.
33:13You just chase that ping.
33:36Go away.
33:38No time for distraction, fools.
33:41No time for distraction, fools.
33:41Way too much to do today.
33:45Zero really to say.
33:47Still mad.
33:48Beyond enough of you.
33:51We've had.
33:53Got nothing or substance to add.
33:55Then just go away.
33:58Go away.
34:00Go away.
34:13In the book of Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem, a young woman stands alone at sunrise by the ocean.
34:22Her hair moves with the wind.
34:23Faint, superimposed text.
34:27Was life just a collection of mediocre days with a few random happy times?
34:33Flashbacks.
34:34A girl laughing as a child, then crying as a teenager, pondering about her future.
34:41Lighting shifts from golden to shadowed.
34:45Slow motion.
34:47She walks through crowds, offering a soft smile to a stranger.
34:51In the book of Kennedy.
34:53Project Carpe Diem.
34:55Available now on Amazon in e-book, paperback, and hardcover editions.
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