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April 5, 2017
Reading the Hugo Awards finalists
So many great writers and editors, so many fantastic stories and publications, so much awesomeness. The list of Hugo Awards finalists is pretty darn amazing this year. Some of my personal favourites are on this list, and some (a lot…) I have yet to read. Here is a TBR list with links to most of […]
April 3, 2017
February / March recap: stories & more
Time to blab about what I’ve been up to lately, writing-wise. February and March have been good writing months in some ways, and a struggle in other. I’m feeling a twinge of writers-block pinching at my thoughts occasionally, and that is making me freak out: I’ve already wasted quite enough years of my life NOT […]
April 2, 2017
Read ‘Lost’ – a story written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #64 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. The prompts for this episode were “March”, and this awesome photo by Ms. Becca B. Jenkins (check out her website: Hunt, Gather, Brew). Something about that photo had my thoughts heading in a very particular genre-direction right away. I […]
March 31, 2017
Monthly short fiction roundup – March, 2017
As usual, I feel like I didn’t read enough this past month. Just like my TBR-pile of novels and anthologies and collections is ever-growing, so is the list of short fiction I should be reading. Still, I did read a lot, and here are 15 fabulous stories from around the web. The Worldless, by Indrapramit Das […]
March 26, 2017
Listen to R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast & my new story ‘Lost’
My story on The Word Count Podcast this month is called “Lost” and it’s a…well, it’s a dark story, I guess (do I write any other kind?). This month we got a gorgeous photographic story prompt. It’s a photo by Ms. Becca B. Jenkins (check out her website: Hunt, Gather, Brew). The other participating authors are: […]
March 18, 2017
Johnny B. Goode (a science fiction short story)
(This short story was first published in Swedish, then I translated it into English, and it is part of my short story collection ‘Odin’s Eye’. The thought of the Voyager record always fascinated me: thinking of these “Sounds of Earth” traveling into space, and imagining who might listen to them in the far future. Rest […]
March 15, 2017
My scifi-story ‘Lost And Found’ is now up at StarShipSofa – give it a listen
This is so exciting: my science-fiction story ‘Lost And Found’ is now up on the scifi podcast / audio magazine StarShipSofa! It’s read by Andrea Richardson, and I am just over the moon happy to be part of StarShipSofa’s translation month. Listen to episode #477 here. This story was originally written and published in Swedish, […]
March 6, 2017
10 tips for writers getting (back) into writing & submitting short stories
In 2015 I decided to take the plunge and get back into fiction writing after about a decade away from being a writer who actually wrote things on a regular basis. Here are some things I learned in the process of trying to get my writing mojo back. Read current writers One of the things […]
March 1, 2017
Monthly short fiction roundup – February 2017
I read a lot in February, it seems, but as usual I feel like I didn’t read enough: there are so many great stories out there, just waiting to be devoured. I’ve come to the conclusion, that if I could ever clone myself, I’d make one clone just for reading. Anyway. Here are fifteen fantastic […]
February 26, 2017
Read ‘Wolves & Girls’ – a story written for R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast
You can hear me read this story on episode #63 of R.B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast. The prompts for this episode were “February”, and this image: I don’t quite know what about that combo triggered thoughts about Little Red Riding Hood, but I’ve definitely had wolves on the brain lately. Anyway, as sometimes happens for […]
