Summer arrived with a bang as it always does here; from icy winds to sweltering heat (sweltering = slightly above room temperature) in one day. Living off freelance work and occasional employments doesn’t leave much room for vacation, but I’ll try to take some time off in July. Until then, I have a strict schedule [...]
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Still dusty
Posted in English on Apr 28th, 2013
I finally got to see Fields of the Nephilim live. They haven’t been in Sweden since 1987, so this was a Big Deal. I haven’t listened to them regularly for many years, so it was very nice to realize that their music sounds just as good to me as it did fifteen years ago. And [...]
Finished new story draft. I was stuck until I found the right song, and with that one on repeat, everything just unfolded. Funny that, because I normally don’t like Peter Gabriel. But there it was. I listened to Mercy Street in the original version, the live version, and Fever Ray’s brilliant cover. Black Uhuru’s is [...]
So, Saturday. Working on a story draft that doesn’t know if it wants to be a short story or a novella. Hopefully it’ll tell me soon. I just finished Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark. Not only is it a brilliant story (it’s Hand), but a lot of fun because it delves into the Nordic black metal [...]
“A Fine Show on the Abyssal Plain” is now available at Lightspeed Magazine, together with an author spotlight. http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-fine-show-on-the-abyssal-plain/
Two new stories in April
Posted in English on Apr 4th, 2013
So you can get two new ones over at Lightspeed and Tor.com: “Sing” currently available at Macmillan and featured on Tor.com in a couple of weeks. The blurb: In a village on the distant colony of Kiruna, the outcast Aino has worked hard to created a life for herself. The fragile status quo is upset when the [...]
In which I eat fried dough and talk to men in tweed
Posted in English on Mar 21st, 2013
I guess I get more motivated to blog in a country where Facebook is blocked. FB is good for many things, but certainly not for things like blogging, at least not for me. Here’s hoping it’ll get me into a habit of updating this more regularly, now that I have actual readers and stuff. I’m [...]
Hey, I’m in China! When I woke up it had been snowing during the night. Outside my window, a woman has put a bright orange umbrella down at the foot of a tree and is taking photos of it. My hotel room is a functionalist dream with no visible drawers or cabinets. I spent an [...]
A very sad goat and an honorable mention
Posted in English on Mar 6th, 2013
My story “I Have Placed My Sickness Upon You” is now available at Strange Horizons, both in text form and as a podcast. Major props to Strange Horizons for offering a reading of the story right away; it’s great to be able to ping friends and fans who for various reasons can’t read it. However [...]
2012 was a splendid year. Maybe more so than I’d expected, to put it mildly. Best of all, I got married to the fantastic guy who’s shared my life for seven years. That, of course, tops everything. That’s all the personal detail I’m going to go into, so on to the writerly stuff. The first [...]