I’m back, baby!

Look at my header on this blog. There is a person walking there with a dog. That person is my dad. If you follow me on Instagram you know he died on the 11/2 in the year 2022 when I was barely two months post partum. To say that it was an emotional trauma is an understatement. Add the wars around the world, the economy crashing, impending doom and all that, I haven’t really felt like writing. I tried occasionally, as one does when you’re an authos. And yes, I did pick up my computer on Novemeber 2022 as per the last post on this blog. It didn’t lead anywhere. For most of 2022 and 2023 I wrote nothing.

Which is why I’m so happy to announce that I am not dead. Not as a woman, not as a human and certainly not as an author. It’s now only January of 2024 and I sent the novel “Charlotte Times Two” to my beta readers late last night. By the time I sent it in, I was even proud of it. It’s good, in the end it was something I’m proud of.

You might also notice that I’ve added a new page under my header called Saltbridge Hollow. It’s connected to “Charlotte Times Two”, but more on that at a later time. I’m carefully optimistic that I will finish another book this year and I’ve already outlined it. For the first time in a long time I’m excited about the future.

I’m back, baby!

Y is for Yesterday

I didn’t pick up my laptop yesterday. Or the day before that. Or the day before that. Or the week before that. Or the month before that. On the 4th of May I took a positive pregnancy test. Anybody who has been following my blog knows I have tried to get pregnant for years and it’s been a hard journey. As soon as I sat there with the positive pregnancy test, everything else went out the window. Nothing else mattered.

I was suspended from work in mid-September (they’re suspending pregnant workers in Sweden because of risks with Covid for people who can’t work from home or who have risky jobs). For the first weeks I was just enjoying being home. Preparing. Resting. I joined a pregnancy swimming group. Took walks. Finished playing God of War and started a new legacy run on Sims 4. And then…

This morning I was on Instagram and I saw a post on NaNoWriMo and then I started thinking… Back in my regular Tumblr days, when I was a student, before I had published anything, NaNoWriMo was huge. And I usually tried to participate, writing long fanfictions about Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Then I grew up, started working and became a published author. And I never participated in NaNoWriMo again.

It’s November in a few days. I’m not really prepared for NaNoWriMo, not with the sequel for Bittersweet and Sparrow that needs a lot of preparations but I took up my laptop and I’m in full author mode. So that is my big update, I’m trying to do NaNoWriMo, not through the site but independently and tracking my possible progress on Instagram. I’m however seven months pregnant so no promises, both baby and body are fickle and some days I feel crap. But I’m so glad to have the creative juices flowing again.

I talked to my sister-in-law who is a writer with a Tumblr but who had no idea what NaNoWriMo even is. She is six years younger than me, so I feel like there is a generational gap between us when it comes to Tumblr culture. However, I couldn’t believe that she doesn’t know what it is… at all.

How about you guys? You who are reading this, are you doing NaNoWriMo? Do you know what it is?

Bittersweet and Sparrow – Announcement

I’m so proud and happy to announce that the first installment in the Waerdarei-series will be published on the 1st of March through Triplicity Publishing.

The Blurb

Rathmoria Emporie, 1719. Sparrow Stonehill, a street walker, is forced to leave her house of employment when it’s bombed one night. From now on, Sparrow’s life will be on the run. Between a brutal oppressive leadership and an equally violent revolution – where is her place?  What side is she on in the civil war? And what does Astrid Dace, the alluring general of the revolution, want with her? 

A love story set in a fictional industrial age dystopia; Bittersweet and Sparrow is the exciting first installment in the Waerdarei-series.

There is still romance, there are still complicated female characters, there is still tears and emotions and sex but otherwise this one is different than my others.

I shall over the following weeks posT a few teAsers and reveaLs as We get closer to the release date, starting with “Welcome to Rathmoria Emporie” that will be posted on February 4th.