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Big News! – I Moved To The Arctic (Again!)

It’s been a weird, challenging, and busy first half of the year. At the same time, it’s been absolutely incredible.

Coming into 2025, I thought the biggest thing I was going to do this year was to publish my Norwegian YA debut novel, FJORDBEIST. Having been picked up by my publisher in September, we spent the last few months of 2024 working on edits and revisions, before moving on to formatting, cover design, illustrations, and pre-orders at the start of 2025. By the time the book was released at the end of May, just over a month ago, I was so exhausted and worn out (but also incredibly thrilled and happy!) that I had no idea where the time went. What happened to the spring? Where did the weeks go?

Much of it is my own fault, I realize. Well, all of it, really. Because at the start of the year, I applied for a job. A job in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago, basically located on the north pole (or at least at 78 degrees North). And in March, I was offered this job.

After a couple of days’ consideration – my wife and I basically just sat down to see if there were any good reasons to decline, and when we couldn’t find any – we said yes! We quit our jobs, began packing down everything we own (at least the stuff we didn’t ship up north), and we rented out the house. Sounds like an easy-breezy thing to do when you have 3 months to spare, right?

Well, we kind of forgot that I was also publishing a book; she was writing, producing, rehearsing and premiering a musical (my wife worked as a teacher at a school for art and culture); I was releasing an album with my band Maryon; and on top of this we were both training for an ultra marathon. Long story short – it’s been busy!

But no we’re finally here! Back in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, and we couldn’t be happier.

You see, we’ve been here before. I moved up north for the first time back in 2019, and spent a couple of years (and most of a global pandemic) in the Arctic. I’ve actually written about this place a few times before, both here and here.

I was so smitten by this place, that I jumped at the chance to come back for a few months in 2022, and when I saw the job listing at the start of the year… well, I told you that story already.

We’re very excited to be back. There’s something relaxing about living at the edge of the world. Even when the sun shines 24/7 during the summer, or when it disappears for months at a time during the winter and the whole island is shrouded in darkness, there’s something freeing about being here. It’s difficult to explain, but it’s brilliant.

Also, it’s great place to write. I got my publishing deal for At The Gate while I lived up here last. I drafted more than a few books, including a sci-fi thriller that I signed a contract for with Inked In Gray just a few months ago.

It also inspired more than a few stories, among other things a short story that is inspired by real events that happened up here, and it was part of what drove me to finally write something in Norwegian (the aforementioned debut novel, Fjordbeist).

I’m looking forward to living here again. To bask in the midnight sun, and see the northern lights dance over me during the polar night. I look forward to writing long into the never-ending summer evenings, and to cozy up in the eternal darkness of winter. I look forward to the cold. To the majestic hikes in the rough, Arctic landscape. To stare into the distance and look over my shoulder, feeling the weight of my rifle as I scan the horizon for the white, lumbering creatures that we have to avoid.

Most of all, I look forward to freedom I feel up here. And I look forward to sharing it with all of you.

Aa always, please check out my books and stories. I haven’t stopped writing in English just because I’ve finally managed to get something out in Norwegian, and I’m actually working on a new exciting novella with Inked In Gray, the publisher whom I published At The Gate with. So if you’re into psychological horror, crime thrillers, or science-fiction and fantasy, be sure to check them all out below!

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My Norwegian Young Adult debut – Fjordbeist by Trygve Sikveland Røysland

It’s been a wild ride for the last 6 months – and an even more hectic, busy and stressful past four weeks – but now it’s all finally coming together: FJORDBEIST has been out for two weeks, the official launch party yesterday was a great success, and readers are absolutely loving the book. What more could an author ask for?

Fjordbeist is a young adult fantasy adventure, and my first ever book written in my native language, Norwegian. It’s about twelve-year-old Marius, who goes on a summer vacation with his dad to the family cabin in Western Norway. There, following a week of being bored, being stuck inside looking at the rain all day, wondering what to do to fill his days as he watches his summer drift away in front of his eyes, he comes across a mystery: He sees a shadow in the fjord – there’s something out there, in the water.

He takes it upon himself to investigate, and adventures, mystery and mayhem follows when he finally meets the beast in the fjord.

Writing, pitching and publishing Fjordbeist as been a wild ride, as I mentioned, but it’s also been a dream come true. A dream, that’s now finally real. The book is out there, in people’s hands, being sold in close to 350 locations all over Norway (and that’s just continuing our two biggest book retailers), and the feedback from readers is overwhelming. Sometimes I got to pinch myself just to check that it’s all real.

But it is, and I’m beyond happy with how it all turned out. I’m going to have to remind myself to celebrate one of these days soon, because as anyone who’s ever written a book will know, it’s after the book has been released that the real work starts. It can be a bit overwhelming, sure, but this time around I’m excited. I’m looking forward to the marketing, to the live readings, to the book signings, and to meet potential readers and be excited about my book with them.

More than anything though, I’m looking forward to finishing the first draft of the sequel, and getting that into my publisher’s hands. This is going to be the start of something big, I just know it will – and the start so far has been amazing.

Aa always, please check out my other books and stories. I haven’t stopped writing in English just because I’ve finally managed to get something out in Norwegian, and I’m actually working on a new exciting novella with Inked In Gray, the publisher whom I published At The Gate with. So if you’re into psychological horror, crime thrillers, or science-fiction and fantasy, be sure to check them all out below!

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It’s Finally Here! – Book Release: Fjordbeist by Trygve Sikveland Røysland

I’ve waited so long to say this – but my Norwegian Young-Adult Fantasy debut is finally here!

Back when I started writing my first novel in 2015, I never imagined I’d be sitting here, 10 years later, releasing my first book in Norwegian. Even though it’s my mother tongue, the language I first learned to read and write, the same language all those books I grew up loving were written in, I never imagined I’d ever write anything myself in Norwegian. My teens were so saturated with stories in English, be it through movies, cartoons, video games, and books, and eventually when I finally started writing myself, it only seemed natural to tell stories in that same language. There’s just something about English that lends itself so well to storytelling.

But I began to realize a few years ago that I had to take a shot at it. Friends and family kept asking for Norwegian stories, kept pushing me to write something else, something different, something from and about home, and eventually I gave in. I never knew what would come of it, never once imagined it would all lead to this, but now I’m sitting here – three years after I first started drafting the story that would eventually become Fjordbeist (literally Fjord beast) and I couldn’t be prouder of what it’s become.

Fjordbeist is a young adult fantasy adventure, about twelve-year-old Marius, who goes on a summer vacation with his dad to the family cabin in Western Norway – the other side of the country from where he grew up in Oslo. There, following a week of being bored, being stuck inside looking at the rain all day, wondering what to do to fill his days as he watches his summer drift away in front of his eyes, he comes across a mystery: He sees shadows in the fjord – there’s something out there, in the water.

He takes it upon himself to investigate, getting into all kinds of trouble, nearly drowning and falling to his death, but eventually he finds it, and he meets the beast in the fjord.

Fjordbeist has been a dream come true, and I couldn’t be happier. My publisher has worked wonders with the edits, the front cover, the layout, the illustrations – everything is just perfect! – and I hope everyone who reads it comes to love it as much as I do. I’d almost forgotten how exciting it is to release a new book, and I’m beyond ecstatic to finally share it with all of you.

So please, if you’re in the fortunate position that you understand Norwegian, please go check out Fjordbeist at http://www.fjordbeist.no. We currently only ship to Norway and the rest of Scandinavia, but drop me a message and I’ll see what I can do about getting you a book if you want one sent to anywhere else.

And also – thank you. Thank you for following along on my journey, thank you for reading, and thank you for all your support. It means the world to me.

Now, I’ll have to end this post here. The sequel won’t write itself, and I still have a couple of thousand words to get down on paper. Until next time.

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Book Review: The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

Another, even better trilogy?

I don’t remember who got me onto Brandon Sanderson books in the first place, but from the moment I read the first book in the Mistborn series, The Final Empire I was hooked. I followed up with Skyward, got all the four books in his super successful secret kickstarter, and have since read the whole Mistborn trilogy, including The Well of Ascension, The Hero Ages and the additional 3.5 book in the series, Secret History.

And when I realized that the Mistborn series carries on with a whole other quadrilogy (cue amazement) I just knew I was going to read that one as well.

I had my hopes up, of course I did. Sanderson is a fantastic author and I never doubted that The Alloy of Law was going to deliver the goods. At the same time, I figured it would be difficult to live up to expectations, when the original trilogy is as good as it is. But I was right to have my hopes up – because this book is almost better than the original trilogy, right off the bat!

The book follows Waxilium Ladrian – former lawman of The Roughs, who comes home to civilized society to take over his late uncle’s estate. He’s not a fan of high society, with all it’s fancy dinners and expensive trinkets, but he does what is expected of him to try and save his family’s fortune, reputation, and company. That’s until he’s old friend and master of disguise, Wayne shows up unexpectedly, needing help with a mystery.

The whole book, and I assume the series, seems to be set in a Western, gun-slinging kind of era, which I honestly thought wasn’t going to work with me. I’ve never been much of fan when it comes to using that as a backdrop for science-fiction and fantasy, and I didn’t know what to expect. Turns out, it works really, really well. Not only is it an cool and exciting vibe to build up a future world in, following what happened in the first trilogy – this second series does that really well, because it uses the people and story we’ve already come to love from the first series as the myths and histories for this new world, but it also pairs really well with how allemancy, feruchemy and hemalurgy works. (If you don’t know what any of that means, don’t worry, you’ll get it as soon as you pick up the Mistborn books).

It also works really well as a place to build on those things, to make new, exciting magics, that works in ways you wouldn’t believe.

But what really sold this book for me is the mystery Wayne comes to drag Wax into. This book reads more like a steampunk murder-mystery/thriller than a fantasy or science-fiction, and I’m totally fine with that. There’s a lot of investigation, following clues and trying to figure out what’s what, and it kept me hooked from page one, not going to lie. There’s also a lot of history, and digging into the past, which like I mentioned, since we have three and a half books to build on from before, makes for a lot of very cool world building. I love stuff like that, just diving into the way things works, trying to make all the little connection and piecing it all together, trying to predict where it’s all leading.

I’m happy to say that though I thought I managed to foresee the big reveal, I was side-lined at the very end and swept off my feet by the time the book was coming to an end. Well done to you, Sanderson. I never thought I would see the day, but I honestly think this might be better than the original trilogy.

I haven’t started the second book in this series just yet, but I’m about to. I have it downloaded and ready to go on my phone – I’m 50/50 on ebooks and audio books these days – and I just can’t wait to get stuck in. I seen a lot of news recently about the third Mistborn trilogy, Ghostbloods, and if I time this right, I might just be done with all the current Mistborn books and the Way of Kings by the time it’s out.

What about you? Are you a Mistborn fan? Prefer any other of Sanderson’s books to this? Do you have recommendations for other sci-fi or fantasy authors I just have to read? Let me know in the comments! I love it when people leave comments.

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Book Review: The Silver Crystal by Ryan Lanz

A magnificent fantasy epic!

The Silver Crystal by Ryan Lanz reads like a lot of fantasy stories, so if that’s your genre, you’ll immediately feel welcome and at home. There’s sword fighting and magic, valiant heroes and suspicious villains, intrigue, romance and conspiracy. There’s immense world building with sprawling cities, dangerous forests and epic quests, and every page you read will make you want to turn to the next.

The story follows Rhael, freelance bounty hunter and leader of a band of misfits, currently under employ of The Order. Their mission is to hunt the Corrupted, dangerous criminals, people who live outside the law, and who all share one very defining feature: they have dangerous, magical abilities. Rhael and his team’s job is to hunt these people down, and to force a silver crystal through their hand, a violent and horrifying method that serves to disarm the corrupted and remove their dangerous abilities. Then, they are marched back to The Order, and Rhael and his friends can collect the bounty. This is what they do, how they spend their time, until one day, when everything goes wrong and a mission takes a horrible turn – and suddenly, Rhael finds himself with a crystal of his own.

Lanz writes like a veteran fantasy author – and he very might well be! – even though this is the first book of his that I’ve come across. It’s dark and mysterious at times, it’s detailed and complex, yet light-hearted and even funny, at times. It’s a long book, thick with a well established fantasy world and sprawling with places, characters and histories, like any good fantasy book should be, yet the pace is just fast enough that the book never drags, and you always feel like you’re in the midst of the most important parts of the story.

Yet, at times I feel like he over explains and dumbs down parts occasionally, just to make sure the reader is following. I felt that these things were unnatural for characters to think and say, and I felt I would have grasped the hidden meanings and underlying themes, even without the words being put in my mouth. But it’s a minor issue, more of a feature than a bug, and it didn’t affect my enjoyment of the book.

Because the story is good – surprisingly so! I found myself fully invested even after just a handful of pages in, and I found myself comparing Lanz’ writing to other great fantasy books, like A Song Of Ice and Fire and the Warcraft series, which I’ve read a lot of. The Silver Crystal is simultaneously an epic fantasy and a buddy-cop comedy, a 2-in-1 kind of deal, and I love the dichotomy. I was never bogged down with overwhelming histories of distant lands, family lineages of ancient house, or the geography of distant kingdoms, yet the story didn’t focus solely on a handful of characters who didn’t seem to be part of a wider world. It’s really a perfect blend.

And the plot is good too. It’s clearly a series that aims to develop characters and plots further in future installments, and this first book sets everything up very well. If you’re looking for a new fantasy favorite, and if you’re interested in picking up an indie book that you might not happen across just out of nowhere, I’ll thoroughly recommend this. Any fantasy lover would appreciate this.

Oh, and I absolutely love Gobo.

What do you think? Have you read anything exciting lately? Come across any good books, any hidden gems, or perhaps something you didn’t like at all? Let me know in the comments! I love it when people get in touch

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Author Interview by The Reading Palette – Exploring Author Trey Stone

Amisha Goel over at The Reading Palette had just finished writing a fantastic review of my psychological thriller, At The Gate, when she got back in touch and invited me to sit down for an interview. Well, I’m never one to say no to almost anything, so I took a seat and laid it all on the table: future projects, writing habits, thoughts on AI, what it’s like writing in two different languages – we didn’t leave out anything!

So please, if you’re interested in what I’m up to, check out the interview in full over at The Reading Palette, below.

Author Interview – Exploring Trey Stone, by The Reading Palette

Amisha has also reviewed my first book, The Consequence of Loyalty, then invited me to do a guest blog post about an important piece of literature. But she doesn’t just do reviews and author interviews, she also writes articles about books, literature and movies, as well as opinion pieces. You should definitely go check it out, and while you’re over there, don’t forget to subscribe!

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Book Review: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson

Okay, what? It wasn’t over?

Secret History is a strange book. It’s an accompanying novella to the first Mistborn trilogy, the series that starts with The Final Empire, follows with The Well of Ascension, and finishes with The Hero Of Ages, and honestly, I thought that was it! Apparently not.

This is labelled as the third-and-a-half installment in the series, and serves as a kind of follow-up, which aims to… well, let’s just say it answers some questions. It’s very heavily prefaced with all sorts of spoiler warnings, saying that you should definitely not, under any circumstances read this book before you’ve read the original trilogy. Because it will ruin A LOT!

This, consequentially, makes it a really difficult book to review. Because I can’t really… tell you anything about it. But know that there are questions you’re left with from the trilogy, things you will have learned about and be wondering, that this last installment will help you understand. It’s kind of right there in the name: Secret History.

It’s a good book. It’s great, in fact. I loved all the insights I was getting, and it really put the whole story that’s been going on over the course of the first three books into perspective.

Yet…

I’m not sure I feel like I’m better off knowing a lot of this stuff. One of the absolute great things about the Mistborn trilogy, is the massive universe Sanderson has created. It’s huge and detailed, and it feels… for the lack of better words, organic. It’s natural that I don’t understand all the goings-on in the wider world that the Mistborn story takes place in. I kind of liked that. I understood some things, and I followed the exciting story that was taking place in front of my eyes, but it felt good to be left wondering about other things, it was nice that things were left unanswered, that things weren’t always explained in great detailed. It added to the mystique. It was just the way it was, and those things served to bring the world to life, for me. It let me know that there was more beyond the plot that happened in the three books. It was one of the things that made the universe feel so expansive.

Secret History kind of ruined parts of it for me. Because suddenly, things were explained. I was told and understood things that had been left to simmer in the back of my mind. This made some of those things lose their magic. It was fun not knowing, because when I didn’t, there was no limit to what was real and not. Now, it’s set in stone.

I don’t know. It’s a good book, don’t get me wrong, and if you’ve enjoyed the Mistborn trilogy so far, you’re probably going to want to read this one as well. I know I did. At the same time, it’s left me wondering if I was better off not knowing. Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t ruined the original story in any way, but it’s definitely painted it in another light. It’s a weird kind of feeling to feel like a book might have “taken” something from me, that I can never get back.

What do you think? Have you read much by Brandon Sanderson? Been through the Mistborn series? What did you think of Secret History? Let me know in the comments!

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Book Review by Amisha Goel & The Reading Palette – At The Gate

Amisha Goel over at The Reading Palette has just written a fantastic review of my psychological thriller, At The Gate, and it’s one of the best ones I’ve ever read! You’ll check it out, won’t you?

At The Gate – Book Review, by The Reading Palette

When Amisha first reached out to me, I was mesmerized by the beautiful blog she keeps over on her site (almost a little bit jealous), and I all but jumped at the chance to be featured. She reviewed my first book, The Consequence of Loyalty first, then invited me to do a guest blog post about an important piece of literature, and now she’s written the most fantastic review of At The Gate as well! But she doesn’t only do reviews, she also has author interviews, articles about books, literature and movies, and she writes opinion pieces. You should definitely go check it out, and while you’re over there, don’t forget to subscribe!

Oh, and if Amisha’s review swayed you, or if you’re interested in any of my other works, please check them all out below. I really appreciate  every single reader – you’re worth your weight in gold to any indie author!

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Book Review: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

An incredible end to an amazing series!

I have no idea when I first heard of Brandon Sanderson, but I know it started with whisper of this fantastic fantasy author. Probably the same way I began hearing about George R. R. Martin when Game of Throne first aired back in the day, I started hearing Sanderson’s name being slung around, followed with praise and promise for his fantastic writing. Often, his name was accompanied by the word: Mistborn.

The first Sanderson book I ever read was Skyward. I got it for Christmas from my youngest older sister, and I was ecstatic. I’d heard about Sanderson for a while at this point, and I was excited to finally read something of his. I devoured the book, but never followed up with the next installments in the series.

But it made me pick up The Final Empire, the first book in the Mistborn series. And, it, was, incredible…

To quickly summarize the plot: the Mistborn series is set in a fantasy world where metals have magical properties and some people have powers to utilize these properties through certain abilities. You do this by “burning“, metals. Burning iron, for example make you able to pull metal towards you. Burning steel does the opposite, and you can push things away. You get the picture. All the while, there’s a whole bunch of revolution going on, there’s an evil ruler that someone wants to overthrow, and there’s a whole universe that’s on the brink of collapse. Honestly, it’s great, believe me.

Book two, The Well of Ascension, followed through on what book 1 had delivered, and was just as good, if not even better. My only regret was that I waited so long to pick it up, but in my defense, I read every single book in Brandon Sanderson’s famous world-record kickstarter campaign in between there, including Tress Of The Emerald Sea, The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England, Yumi and The Nightmare Painter, and The Sunlit Man. Each of these, except for maybe the second one are absolutely fantastic.

But the second Mistborn installment was so great that it immediately made me want to continue the series, so I threw myself around and bought The Hero Of Ages as soon as I closed book two. And boy, does the third and final installment deliver. On every, single, promise.

Not only is the writing great, the characters fantastic, and world-building mesmerizing, but it all comes together so incredibly well. I’ve read great books earlier – The Rats And The Ruling Sea by Robert V.S. Redick probably has the most incredible world-building I’ve ever had the pleasure of getting lost in, at the same time, the writing is difficult, confusing and convoluted, to the point that it sometimes was an actual, physical struggle to read. Not so with Brandon Sanderson and the Mistborn series.

What I enjoyed the most about it all – which I assume is what most people enjoy most when it comes to big, epic series like this – is seeing it all come together. Toward the end I felt like every other sentence was a carefully rigged time-bomb, where everything just fell into place, things that might not have been mentioned since book 1, things that never seemed important before, suddenly made all the difference. Honestly, it was very satisfying to read, and it’s been wonderful to see the series come together toward an end.

Of course, it’s not over yet. I’ve already bought and started the “fourth” book in the series, the Secret History of the Mistborn universe, and there is of course a second trilogy, set in the same universe as far as I’ve been told, with the same magics, the same incredible world-building, but set in a completely different time and place, featuring entirely new characters. I can’t wait to start that one either.

Have you read much by Brandon Sanderson? Been through the Mistborn series? Is there anything else that he’s done that you’d recommend, or perhaps similar, incredible authors? Let me know in the comments!

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Guest Blog Post With The Reading Palette – Rediscovering Literature: Why Tuesdays With Morrie Became My Must-Read

This week, I’ve written a guest blog post over on The Reading Palette. Amisha Goel, who runs the beautiful site, challenged me to write something about a book or a piece of literature that was special to me.

I sat down and thought about it – not for very long, mind you – because luckily, late last year I came across one of the best things I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading: Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom.

That’s when it hit me: how had I not read this before? Where had this book been all my life?

I have this idea in my head that I read a lot, and that I’ve always read a lot. Sure, that’s probably true both now and way back when, but I slowly realized that I probably never read very widely. When I was young I read cartoons, and a handful of book series, but I didn’t spend much time seeking new things. This wasn’t helped by becoming a teenager who spent most of his free time playing video games, or a young adult who went to university and slowly lost his time and patience for fiction (honestly, reading course material killed my joy of reading for a few years).

So when I came across Tuesdays With Morrie, I knew I had been missing out, and when The Reading Palette challenged me to write my blog piece, I didn’t hesitate. I needed to put down into words how important I felt the book was, and how it ignited something in me.

So please, go check out my guest blog over at The Reading Palette:

Rediscovering Literature: Why Tuesdays with Morrie became my Must-Read.

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