Updated Final cover on 12/23/2021 (It may take a day for this to populate on Amazon)
Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime #1 Amazon Hot New Release in Environmental & Natural Resource Law
12/23/2021 Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime is: Kindle Store ---> #1 Hot New Release in Photo Essays
This is from 12/23/2021 at 5:35 AM, Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime is #1 Amazon Hot New Releases in Environmental & Natural Resources Law --> Books, (also, #1 in ebooks)
12/23/2021 Lisa Loucks-Christenson's Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime: Books --->#1 Hot New Release in Environmental & Natural Resources Law --> Books
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I'm posting these images as evidence of what I see when I go to Amazon and search my book, "Walk the Burn". Since there are people sometimes claim reviews and information is "fake" online (many people have had this happen), I'm posting this as the date and time of my viewings. Each screenshot is taken today, 12/23/2021, times vary, since it takes time to go to each page and category. Most of the time stamps and date show in the photos, if you have doubts, call me. Since the stats change, hourly, the book will not be #1 forever since new purchases affect the placement. Hopefully, this will show you that the book is what is listed.
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Updated Final cover on 12/23/2021
12/23/2021:
Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime is listed on Amazon, in the following categories:
#1 Amazon Hot New Releases in Photo Essay
#1 Amazon Hot New Releases in Environmental and Natural Resources Law (books)
#1 Amazon Hot New Releases in Environmental and Natural Resources Law (Kindle)
Amazon Hot New Releases our best-selling new and future releases. Updated hourly. Walk the Burn is a future release (01/01/2022).
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12/23/2021 12:06 PM bumped to #2 in the books category, still #1 Amazon Hot New Releases in Environmental and Natural Resources Law in ebooks and #1 in Photo Essays (ebook)
12/23/2021 12:06 PM
CoyWolf Entertainment™ presents
Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime
A documentary recorded in the Whitewater Management Area in the former town of Beaver, Minnesota, a ghost town in Winona, County.
Written and photographed by #1 international best-selling and award-winning author, photographer and illustrator Lisa Loucks-Christenson
WALK THE BURN started as a 30-day documentary showing the daily changes following a controlled burn. A photo essay documented the actual fire and the black canvas it left behind in the ghost town I studied. It is now a wildlife refuge that superseded the former town of Beaver, Minnesota.
It’s a story about how life rises from the ashes and into a picture-perfect summer. Ironically, it became a crime and faith story about how God used it to break me into His service, transforming me into someone He could use to serve other people that were hurting deeper and broken harder than me.
"I’m Walking My Victory!™"––Lisa Loucks-Christenson
CoyWolf Entertainment™ presents
A documentary recorded in the Whitewater Management Area in the former town of Beaver, Minnesota, a ghost town in Winona, County.
Written and photographed by #1 international best-selling and award-winning author, photographer and illustrator Lisa Loucks-Christenson
WALK THE BURN started as a 30-day documentary showing the daily changes following a controlled burn. A photo essay documented the actual fire and the black canvas it left behind in the ghost town I studied. It is now a wildlife refuge that superseded the former town of Beaver, Minnesota.
It’s a story about how life rises from the ashes and into a picture-perfect summer. Ironically, it became a crime and faith story about how God used it to break me into His service, transforming me into someone He could use to serve other people that were hurting deeper and broken harder than me.
"I’m Walking My Victory!™"––Lisa Loucks-Christenson
12/23/2021 3:35AM
Walk the Burn: Beauty & True Crime is a:
#1 Hot New Release in Photo Essaysa
#1 Hot New Release in Environmental and Natural Resources Law (books)
#1 in Natural Resource in Environmental and Natural Resources Law (Kindle)
Updated hourly by Amazon
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12/22/2021
12/22/2021 Walk the Burn (old cover) is #2 on Amazon Hot New Releases in Environmental & Natural Resource Law (this changes hourly)
Nothing bad happened to me the first week of WALK THE BURN, just a guy standing behind the tree branches by my truck while I was heading out from my day at the eagle nest. He eyed me as I stepped out of the grasslands. I kept walking through the open woods, keeping my chin up to preserve my stoical expression, trying not to show a trace of fear.
After I stepped off the grassland and onto the blacktop, I had officially entered Minnesota State Highway 74, the road that ran between the parcels of state land. As I walked closer to my truck, I was ready to break another chain in my life and snatch up the bottle of pepper spray, a one-inch brushed steel can of trust that dangled just inches away from my face on the breastplate of my tripod. My check-out counter special that caught my attention twice in one day.
That’s what I thought about as it reflected the light of the afternoon sun into my eyes. Maybe the light beams hitting my vision were God’s way of saying He was nearer than He appeared. My thoughts waved between hoping it was Him or someone he sent.
I watched his face and his dead stare closely, expecting him to move at any moment. My pocket-sized mace didn’t pack enough power to cause a tear––probably mine in a lightning fast altercation. At that moment, I realized how inadequate and undersized its value was. Was my life not worth more than a one ounce bottle of this false sense of security?
A spray bottle dressed in a white label and with ingredients that may as well have included fleeting hope. A handful of stinging nettles could inflict more harm––if only they were at a height I could grab at; I’d take their sting without a second of hesitation. For the first time since seeing the man, I was fully aware of the situation I was walking into.
I kept walking. I tightened my grip on my tripod, the same one I’d use in the future, in 2007, when I’d become future me, to protect myself from a cougar running behind me, then alongside me before it jumped at the face of my future me.
Just in case I didn’t get out of the woods I reached down pressing the shutter on my Canon camera hanging over my shoulder and across my hip, I snapped at least a ten shots of him, trusting the autofocus was working and someone would see the photos if something happened to me and I could leave the camera behind.
The man was about 25 feet away. He continued to observe me, but he didn’t move. His eyes lifted and dropped as he began sizing me up. I hated when men did that disrespect my existence as a woman didn’t measure up to his standards. The Whitewater Valley didn’t have cell phone coverage, so I didn’t bring a phone with me. I repeated my passcode in my head so I didn’t blank out if he came at me as I neared my truck. I kept my eyes looking toward my truck, hoping he’d think I didn’t see him.
I felt myself tensing as I entered my door lock code, 05975, into the keypad on a truck that was as seasonal as my journey into the first couple of years in the valley. I entered my truck, locking the doors, and looked ahead into the turnaround and stared at what had to be his truck. Using my eagle eyesight––I memorized his plate. I still remember it. He followed me for 15 years.
It turns out, per a Minnesota State Trooper, he was a pot farmer, known in the area to law enforcement for his farms. I didn’t overstep his boundary line that day, or care that I was on his turf that first week: I marched right over his divide and I continued to walk anywhere I wanted to walk in those miles of public land, and also the private land I’d secured permission to use during my projects there over the next 15 years of my life.
WALK THE BURN started out as a 30-day documentary showing the daily changes following a controlled burn. A photo essay documenting the actual fire and the black canvas it left behind in the ghost town I studied, now a wildlife refuge that superseded the former town of Beaver, Minnesota.
It’s a story about how life rises from the ashes and into a picture-perfect summer. Ironically, it became a crime and faith story about how God used it to break me into His service; transforming me into someone He could use to serve other people that were hurting deeper and broken harder than me.
This is Lisa Loucks-Christenson’s unique faith-walk. It’s her adventures as she earned the fad names: The Town Joke, The Nature Photographer, The Bug Lady, The Eagle Lady, names that grew into The Lady of Whitewater. WALK THE BURN includes her first steps into the first seven seasons covering a controlled burn and what followed in the former town of Beaver, Minnesota, a ghost town in southeastern Minnesota. These are the opening stories she experienced there. This is her GOD ON A HARLEY meets GRIZZLY ADAMS dining with CRIMINAL MINDS while inspired by TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL.
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