It’s been a wild ride for the last 6 months – and an even more hectic, busy and stressful past four weeks – but now it’s all finally coming together: FJORDBEIST has been out for two weeks, the official launch party yesterday was a great success, and readers are absolutely loving the book. What more could an author ask for?
Fjordbeist is a young adult fantasy adventure, and my first ever book written in my native language, Norwegian. It’s about twelve-year-old Marius, who goes on a summer vacation with his dad to the family cabin in Western Norway. There, following a week of being bored, being stuck inside looking at the rain all day, wondering what to do to fill his days as he watches his summer drift away in front of his eyes, he comes across a mystery: He sees a shadow in the fjord – there’s something out there, in the water.
He takes it upon himself to investigate, and adventures, mystery and mayhem follows when he finally meets the beast in the fjord.
Writing, pitching and publishing Fjordbeist as been a wild ride, as I mentioned, but it’s also been a dream come true. A dream, that’s now finally real. The book is out there, in people’s hands, being sold in close to 350 locations all over Norway (and that’s just continuing our two biggest book retailers), and the feedback from readers is overwhelming. Sometimes I got to pinch myself just to check that it’s all real.
But it is, and I’m beyond happy with how it all turned out. I’m going to have to remind myself to celebrate one of these days soon, because as anyone who’s ever written a book will know, it’s after the book has been released that the real work starts. It can be a bit overwhelming, sure, but this time around I’m excited. I’m looking forward to the marketing, to the live readings, to the book signings, and to meet potential readers and be excited about my book with them.
More than anything though, I’m looking forward to finishing the first draft of the sequel, and getting that into my publisher’s hands. This is going to be the start of something big, I just know it will – and the start so far has been amazing.
Aa always, please check out my other books and stories. I haven’t stopped writing in English just because I’ve finally managed to get something out in Norwegian, and I’m actually working on a new exciting novella with Inked In Gray, the publisher whom I published At The Gate with. So if you’re into psychological horror, crime thrillers, or science-fiction and fantasy, be sure to check them all out below!
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