Exciting news everyone! The cover for my next book is here – and my Norwegian YA debut is close to release!
For some reason, it took me seven years to start writing anything in Norwegian, even thought I’m from Norway and Norwegian is my native language, and it took me another three years for the book to finally be published. I don’t know why, really. I think it has something to do with growing up and consuming so many stories in English, in TV, movies and video games, and also reading quite a lot of book in English, and then actually going to England when I was 19 to study archaeology, that made me feel like English lent itself much better to story telling than Norwegian did.
But anyway – I’m past that now – and now FJORDBEIST is right around the corner!
FJORDBEIST translates to Fjord Beast and is a young adult fantasy novel about a young boy named Marius, who while on summer vacation in his family cabin near the Lysefjorden fjord, almost drowns and ends up being saved by a beast. Of course, he and this beast – after the initial shock has passed – goes off into the wilds and has a lot of adventures together (aaand might end up in a lot of trouble as well). Honestly, it’s one of the most fun and exciting books I’ve ever written, and it’s surprisingly sad, honest and heart-warming too. I’ve put a lot of myself in it, and I can’t wait to share it with the world. The book will be released this spring, some time around May/June 2025.
Of course, having been written in Norwegian, it means you won’t understand a word of it if you don’t read Norwegian yourself – but if you do, or if you’re interested in learning, or if you just want to pick up the book to support me, you can pre-order it right now!
Just head on over to http://www.fjordbeist.no and add your details.
However, at the moment we only ship to Scandinavia – that is Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but if you’re outside of there, just send me a message, any message – a comment to this blog post, a Twitter DM, use the contact form here on my site, or find me on Threads, Facebook or Tiktok, and I’ll get a book to you, one way or other! The pre-orders are currently priced at around $38 / £30 + shipping. We’ll sort something out, don’t worry.
Otherwise, please do follow along, help me share my news and the word, and who knows – maybe you’ll be able to pick up a translated version some time soon? Thanks for tagging along, anyway. I really appreciate all my readers here on the blog, and I love the support I’m getting.
As usual, you can find all my English books, my crime thrillers, my psychological horror At The Gate and my sci-fi and fantasy short stories right here on my page or on Amazon.
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