Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I have always had the self-image of being a writer. And I did write mansucripts for both amateur theaters and a soap opera many years ago. But for far too long time I sadly did let the years pass by believing I had to do all this other things first. Now when I finally hade decided to make my dreams come true there is nothing that can stop me from writing anymore.
At the moment I am writing on my third book. My bedut novella “Three Days in September” was publiched about a year ago. First in it´s original language Swedish and a few month ago in English. It is getting translated into portugoise as well.
My second book, and the third, that I am writing now, are crime stories.
I am using a pseudonym and below are my thoughts about that:
Is it possible to introduce oneself despite using a pseudonym? I believe it is. A person is far more than a name, a job and an age. We are our dreams, our experiences and our feelings. These are what make us unique.
I am fortunate to inhabit three entirely different worlds. The first is my everyday. Breakfasts, lunches, dinners and journeys to work. Responsibilities that intimidate. Dinners at friends’ who never just don’t know how much I care. Aggravation at work. Kids that make me cry with pride. Boring days. Sunny days. Sitting on my balcony. Days of heavy rain and exhaustion dragging me down. And all these days drift into one until suddenly along comes a day I’ll remember forever.
My second world is in all the books that I read. On my way to work on a bumpy, overcrowded train when I suddenly realize whodunnit. Or at home, under a blanket on the sofa, I imagine how it feels to long for the heartbeat of a lover. When I finally understand why orange is the new black. The amazing worlds other writers invite me into. Like when I searched for the dark rider of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings, terrified he would appear on the horizon. Each of these worlds as real as my own.
My third is the one I own, my world. And I am here to share it with you. The world my characters live, love, fight and screw up in. The loved and the infuriating, the characters that come from me but I can never be. Characters that go their own way but allow me to follow their adventures. Adventures that help me make sense of my first world.
I hope you choose to travel with me. To places you know and places you don’t. To meet people you’ve met and some you never want to. People you thought you didn’t know but you realise you did. Maybe I can shed some light. And help you understand, sympathize with and maybe, just maybe, forgive my characters.
Welcome to my world. I hope you enjoy it.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Playing with fire”. What´s inspire me is that the main caracter is a women in her mid sixties. For most of her life she has been working as a surgent. But age and shaking hands forced her out of that career. She refuses to be a pensioner and instead get herself a job as a private investigator. in close coolaboration with a young man with a self-image of a looser from the suburb and a young woman who has been oppressed for most og her life. Together they enter dangerous adventures to solve crimes.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I get up early, around 5:30, to write. Often when I wake up I have new ideas of the story as if it has been prosessed during the night. I write most every day.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I love Dan Browns books because they are so exciting that I just can´t stop reading. I also like that they are really long. Something I have to work on. When books are both really good and really long they sort of get like a part of your everyday life in a way that makes you miss them once you have finished reading them.
What are you working on now?
“Till Death do us apart” is a crime story. The second book of the serie of the private investigator Gunvor Ström.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
In Sweden it is a good method to get the book to the selection of libraries. Especially e-books because the market for lending e-books at librarys is groving quickly. And if you get on the top 100 book list you get good exposure. Since I am pretty new on the English speaking market I do not have that much experience.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
To do things like this; interview on avesomegang.
A good thing is to do a special offer for a day or two where readers can get your books for free.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
I just got hold of the brochure “Shining light on your book” by Babelcube and Bacon press books that amongst others gave me a tip about this page, awesomegang.
What are you reading now?
I am reading “The black house” by Peter May.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I will continue on the crime serie about Gunvor Ström. But I have also plans about writing a dystopia. About the World after the big catastrophe. I actually hade a great deal of the story in my head already.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Browne. Beacause it takes time to read and is exciting.
White teeth by Zadie Smith. Because I loved reading it years ago and I will read it againg but as soon as I find the time.
The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Because it would bring the right magic to being on a desert Island.
Any book about Harry Potter because I love the story but have just seen the films so far.
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