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November 12th
It’s been a while since there was any news here, but time has been short and writing will come before updating the website.
Right now I have two novels in submission: The Nexus, an urban, dark fantasy and Abducted, a YA hard-SF. Fun, fun, fun.
I also have a 4.33 month old daughter that has discovered that sounds feel funny inside her head. I’ve never seen anyone as happy as her when crying as loud as her lungs can handle. I hope it’s a phase, but you never know.
As for writing, well…I’m about 40% into the draft of the sequel to Abducted and I’m writing good-night stories for the 6 tear-old in the house. At about 6-10 pages, they’re just enough to get him interested and then to have him fall asleep. So far we’ve covered mutated pumpkins, wild animals in a mall, erupting volcanoes in our little suburb, dragon-hunts and witch-hunting (with a slingshot and chestnuts). My eventual goal is to do a series of 28 stories (4 weeks of speculative fiction bedtime stories). And who knows…I may just polish them and submit them as an anthology, one day in the far future. :o)
See you all in a while.
October 22, 2007
I think I’m going slightly deaf. Last weekend we held the 6.y.o. birthday in a local play land. It was just us, my wife’s X, the kid’s 8 best friends and 300 other under-10s. That night it was hard to relax, since most of my hearing was still clamouring with screaming kids.
The birthday went well, and he got a severe pile of loot – most of it Lego (hey, I have to have something to play with too).
A friend asked if I’m writing less since my daughter was born. The fact is that since mid August, I’ve had 4 days off from writing (in one form or another). I think that is kind of cool, my wife doesn’t exactly share that view :-D
One new project is Oliver-stories. As a lark, I’ve started writing short to short-short stories with Oliver as main character, and any number of zany adventures. So far I have 3 down, and ideas for about 5 more. The goal is a series of 30!! They’re in Danish, which is a challenge fro me to write, since I write in English and I am Swedish…luckily my wife thinks it’s a great project and can help with the fine tuning.
I guess that’s it for now. Keep writing…it’s FUN!!
September 23, 2007
Just came back from the last day of the EuroCon in Copenhagen and it's with mixed feelings I leave the Con behind me. A Con is always fun, at the least for meeting likeminded people. But this year I was entered in both the Aeon Awards and the EuroCon 2007 Short story contest...I made neither short list. Sigh. On the other hand, I just sent out my YA hard-SF story, and I'm getting close to finishing both a Dark Fantasy and an Alternate History story. Since this is a small Con I managed to, unlike three WorldCons, to get into a private (sort of) meeting with Harry Harrison, the eternal favorite of mine was funny and bright and we had a nice time chatting for an hour.
One good thing about a Con is the dealers room...and this being in Denmark we have the smallest dealers room imaginable. However, with two auctions added I managed to scrounge up quite a list nonetheless...to the missus horror :-D
This is what I managed to find of interest:
IN english:
* Margaret Weis – Star of the Guardians vol. 1-4 (The Lost King, King’s Test, King’s Sacrifice and Ghost Legion)
* Jonathan Cowie and Tony Chester – Essential SF, A concise guide
* Frank Ludlow and Roelof Gourdrian – Emerald Eye, the best Irish imaginative fiction.
* John Lee and Denise O’Moore – Spell Maffia
* E.E. “Doc” Smith – Skylark Three
* Harry Harrison – Stonehenge
* Stephen Donaldson – Lord Foul’s Bane
* Harry Harrison – Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers (a better copy than I already have)
* John Wyndham – The Kraken Wakes
* John Wyndham – The Midwich Cuckoos
* Poul Anderson – The Virgin Planet
IN Danish:
* Klaus Æ Mogensen - Dimensionspiraterne
* Svend Pedersen – Gul mand vinder land
* Steen Langstrup – Blodets nætter
* Steen Langstrup – 9 før døden
* Bo Green Jensen – Det store eventyr
* Greg Egan – Madonna fra Tjernobyl
* Niels E. Nielsen – Foran Fremtidens Tærskel
* Niels E. Nielsen – Gudernes by
* Niels E. Nielsen – Vogteren
* Niels E. Nielsen – Herskerne
* Misc. – Circler – en Science Fiction antologi
* Med ”Flyvefisken” gennem de fem verdensdele (vol. 1-3 + 5)
* James Morris - Tim Ryan del 1-3
* Niels E. Nielsen – Der meldes fra Sahara
VHS:
Neil Gaiman’s ”Neverwhere” from the BBC
August 26, 2007
I have now finished the penultimate revision of my YA hard-SF story, and will clean it up and make it ready for shipment by mid-September. Big celebration! I have also gained a daughter since the last time, and she’s spending a lot of time down in the basement, watching as Daddy stays glued to his computer…that is with the exception of when she’s unhappy about it and I do all the baby-talk, changing dirty diapers and just plain sitting and looking at her…she’s beautiful. Even bigger celebration!
My next project will be a somewhat dark, urban-fantasy, also with an eye on the YA market, though perhaps a little older than my last project. I’ll work on this while I have a group of online writers look over my Romantic fantasy (for the more grown up market). I expect to have the dark fantasy finished by November 2007, and the Romantic fantasy by February 2008.
All this and I get to make sure my girl grows up in a happy environment. By the way, her “every other week” big brother adores her, and is just a great help to have around. And he’s getting better at soccer too…and lost his first tooth yesterday :-D
June 6, 2007
Finished the first round of revision on Teel James Glenn's Daemonhold Curse, with my Editor Donna Sundblad. Interesting job, with a lot of learning potential. We're now getting close to the birth of my daughter, in fact T - 20 days and counting. I'm working on my "romantic fantasy" as much as I can (since I have an idea that time will be in short demand after the birth), and trying to get our bathroom contractor to finish the bathroom...currently they're 3 weeks overdue and counting. Never EVER use a Danish contractor called BygiDan! End of rant. For those of a Short Story mindset there has now been announced a competition at this year's EuroCon (see www.eurocon2007.dk for details). I will be attending (and competing).
May 9, 2007
This is it, after months of wondering if I should do this…well, I did it. I got myself a webpage to try and show the world that: “Hey! There’s another writer out here!”
At this moment in time I have three short stories out for consideration (all to this years Aeon Award, the winner will be announced at the EuroCon i Copenhagen).
My deadline for the Romantic Fantasy novel is now set (carved into bedrock, not - absolutely not - to be changed...unless I have to) to August; I’m about halfway through with the penultimate revision. The final revision will take place as commentary comes in from my good friends at WVU/ME.
For once, there is nothing new posted at ePress, so I get to have a rest from reading all the interesting stories that get submitted there.
On a personal note…it is now 6 weeks until I get to be a dad for the first time. The suspense is almost killing me (cliché, but still). At least the little girl is one heck of a kicker!!
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