Siri Pettersen's Blog, page 10
November 25, 2021
Signed books for Christmas!
(Info in English below) SIGNERTE BØKER TIL JUL: De beste pakkene er harde (sa brura), og dessuten er de personlig signert! Tiden for å bestille dem, er NÅ!
Send en epost til litteratur@gyldendal.no - innen 2. desember - med navn, adresse, hvilke bøker du vil ha, hvilket format (hardcover eller pocket), og hvem de skal signeres til, så får du dem portofritt (hvor som helst i Norden) i god tid før jul, med faktura ettersendt. Enklere blir det ikke.
Ja, du kan bestille alle bøkene, både i hardcover (299,-) og pocket (199,-) Og i fall du har glemt det, så er det fem av dem: Odinsbarn, Råta, Evna, Bobla, og Jernulven. Jeg tror til og med de har et par Ravneringene samlebokser på loftet! (999,-)
BONUS: Vardari handlenett og bokmerker til de tyve første! Nei, de tyve største! Nei, de tyve som klarer å sende mailen uten å glemme å oppgi om de vil ha hardcover eller pocket. Eller la oss si jeg dikter opp en completely random grunn. Uansett: Du har ei uke på deg! Tusen, hjertelig takk til dere alle sammen! Denne signeringen er den fineste juletradisjonen jeg har!✨🙌🥰🎁✨
ENGLISH: This signing is for Norwegian books only (sorry!), but if you desperately want one (you might be learning Norwegian, what do I know), my publisher will ship outside of the Nordic region for a postage fee, variable by location.
November 4, 2021
"Eisenwolf" is nominated for the Lovelybooks Awards!
Oh you beautiful bastards! The Iron Wolf is nominated for the Lovelybooks Readers’ Award for «best YA fantasy»! Gods, that’s amazing, thank you! Really! This is like the German Goodreads, and now you can vote for your favourite right here at lovelybooks.de. I am truly happy and grateful for this! My deepest thanks to all my readers, and to Arctis Verlag, my kickass publisher.
October 27, 2021
Czech launch day!
Dear Czech friends! Today is launch day for Železný vlk - The Iron Wolf! Fur and fangs is coming to you, snarling and full of passion! My deepest thanks to my publisher Nakladatelství Host, and my wonderful translator, Jitka Jindriskova ❤️ So dear Czech, I hope you love Železný vlk as much as you loved The Raven Rings!
October 14, 2021
Box Set Launch in Germany!
Dear Germany, it’s here! Next week, October 20th, The Raven Rings box set is finally real, and it is amaaaaaziiing! 😍🙌 Available from Arctis Verlag, it is a stunning, limited, high quality slip case edition, with special covers, and a seperate booklet with all my secrets! Ok, not all. Some secrets 😬 Like how I work, my plotmaps, my drawings of the characters, story background, Hirka’s favourite plants (with possible parallels in our world), and even some pictures from my workplace, and weird stuff from when I grew up, because when else would I get the chance to bore someone with it? 😆
[image error] I am incredibly proud of this beauty, and since you’re all geeks, you know why: Because special editions are for people who care, beyond the fact that it’s books. They care, because the stories matter to them, and I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am for that. It’s why we write! Thank you so much, for your vital part in this, and dammit, I promised myself I wouldn’t cry! Please give a round of applause to Arctis, my agents at Grand Agency, to translators Dagmar Mißfeldt and Dagmar Lendt, and to my Norwegian publisher, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, for their tireless and inspired work 👏
October 5, 2021
US Release Day for The Rot!
Today, THE ROT is released in the US! I can’t believe it’s been six months since ODIN’S CHILD launched to the most heartwarming feedback, especially from Laini Taylor and Sally Green, two of my absolute favourite authors, and I can’t tell you how grateful that makes me. And now, the sequel is out!
THE ROT takes place in a new world, and it might not be where or when you expected. But have faith, follow Hirka, and you’ll see... I am proud to say that Kirkus calls it «An intricate fantasy world that explores the history and mythology of Ym and introduces a connection to the human world in unexpected and intriguing ways. […] An absorbing book that sets the ground for a promising finale»
To every single reader and follower, in every country: I love you for ranting and raving, for caring and sharing, for annoying your friends with my books, for never shutting up about them, for drawing, tattooing, knitting, composing, cosplaying, and ffs even BAKING stuff from my stories! You’all are truly amazing, and as much a part of this journey as I am, and I swear, I will not rest until I feel we’re even. (So I’ll never rest, obviously, but whatever, that’s fine!)
My deepest thanks to my translators, Siân Mackie and Paul Russell Garrett, for their tremendous work, to my wonderful publisher Arctis Verlag and the icredibly dedicated, hard-working team that makes all this happen. Not just in the US, but also my Norwegian publisher, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, who gave birth to this baby, trusted and nurtured it into the spoiled teenage brat that now travels the world. And of course, thanks to my unbeatable agents at Grand Agency.
You can read more about THE ROT here, and as always, I’m eternally grateful to you for spreading the word. Here, please accept my karma points! 🙌🥰
September 30, 2021
Launch day in Italy!
Weeeeh, this calls for wine, because today, IL LUPO DI FERRO - The Iron Wolf - first book in the VARDARI trilogy, is released in Italy! Word on the street is that the first 200 to order, get a signed card, so be quick to get your copy from my publisher, Multiplayer Edizioni. My deepest thanks to everyone on the hard-working team, especially my Italian translator, Valentina Fatichenti, and my superb agents at Grand Agency. And of course to YOU, my incredible, amazing readers, who support me through thick and thin (quite literally 😅) I hope you love the wolf as much as the ravens! Viva l’Italia! 🇮🇹
WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
Juva hates blood readers. Praised for their Sight, they are nothing but swindlers, preying on people’s fears, for power and profit. Born by blood readers herself, she knows only too well, and she has vowed never to become one of them.
But when her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones, who never age, Juva is entangled in a desperate hunt for the blood readers’ legacy: a dark secret that once changed the world, and may do so again.
In order to survive, she has to confront the childhood memory she fought to forget: That time she saw the devil.
THE IRON WOLF is a spellbinding fantasy mystery on a norse foundation, about blood, desire and addiction. It’s the first book in the trilogy VARDARI, an independent series set in the universe of the award-winning fantasy phenomenon THE RAVEN RINGS.
- Alittle girl is forced to forget that she saw the devil.
- An immortal commits murder to conceal an old sin.
- A wolf-sick betrays his lover to obtain eternal life
- A mysterious clockwork starts ticking after six hundred years.
- A grim secret, guarded for generations, has gone missing.
May 5, 2021
Upcoming LIVE events
Hi sweeties! If you want to see me rant about writing, fantasy, and my new book, May is your lucky month! It’s busy with launches in several countries, and I have three live events coming up. I’ll be virtually talking to some wonderful people, and YOU have a chance to post questions for me at all these events. First up is tomorrow allready! Figure out what you’d like to ask me (anything, I dare you ) and join me here: (All times are CEST/UTC+2)
MAY 6th - 18:30 (Tomorrow!)
Göteborg City Library, Sweden. A talk with YA librarian Anders Olsson. (Norwegian and Swedish)
Event on Facebook
MAY 12th - 19:00
BookTarg festival by Lubimyczytac, Poland. A talk with journalist and translator Bartek Czartoryski. (English and Polish)
Event on Facebook
MAY 30th - 14:00
Empik Virtual Book Fair, Poland. A talk with radio host and journalist Justyna Dżbik-Kluge (English and Polish)
Event on Facebook
April 15, 2021
The Iron Wolf - Out in Sweden tomorrow!
Sweden, you have been nagging me since this book was nothing but a rumour, and I love you for it! So I am extremely happy to tell you that it’s here! JÄRNULVEN is out in Sweden tomorrow! Published by B. Wahlströms, translated by Ylva Kempe 🙌Thank you so much for pestering me! I hope you love it as much as you loved The Raven Rings ❤️🙏🥰
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Juva hates blood readers. Praised for their Sight, they are nothing but swindlers, preying on people’s fears, for power and profit. Born by blood readers herself, she knows only too well, and she has vowed never to become one of them.
But when her family is threatened by vardari, the eerie lasting ones, who never age, Juva is entangled in a desperate hunt for the blood readers’ legacy: a dark secret that once changed the world, and may do so again.
In order to survive, she has to confront the childhood memory she fought to forget: That time she saw the devil.
THE IRON WOLF is a spellbinding fantasy mystery on a norse foundation, about blood, desire and addiction. It’s the first book in the trilogy VARDARI, an independent series set in the universe of the award-winning fantasy phenomenon THE RAVEN RINGS.
Alittle girl is forced to forget that she saw the devil.
An immortal commits murder to conceal an old sin.
A wolf-sick betrays his lover to obtain eternal life.
A mysterious clockwork starts ticking after six hundred years.
A grim secret, guarded for generations, has gone missing.
March 23, 2021
US Launch day!
Today, ODIN’S CHILD is launching in the US! (A definite medalist in ‘things I never thought I’d say, there.) And I got the best launch day present I could imagine: The extraordinary fantasy writer, Laini Taylor, shared how much she loves my book, and I can’t tell you what that means, coming from the woman who is my default recommendation when it comes to fantasy books. I am truly grateful and honored, and I can’t thank her enough! Go follow her on Twitter and Instagram!
If you want to help, you can rate or review, share and shout out. Your love means more than you probably think, for me and other writers alike. Your enthusiasm is what keeps us sane, and in business. Many of you have helped me enormously for years, which is the reason this is happening at all! My books would never have reached so far without you. My deepest and most profound thanks for your help, old and new, which will grant you full access to Siri’s carma account.
The photo you seee is from The Librarian Box, who made this insanely gorgeous edition of Odin’s Child for their March Book Box. They hired Emboss and Spine to HAND PAINT over two hundred books, with black, gold-shimmering edges, and I’m DYING! (Yes, they are sending me one!)
Big hugs to you all!
March 17, 2021
The Iron Wolf is out in Germany tomorrow!
German friends! I am super pleased to finally say this: EISENWOLF is launching tomorrow, March 18th! I’ve seen so many The Iron Wolf is the first book in the trilogy VARDARI, an independent series set in the same universe as THE RAVEN RINGS. It’s all about Juva, and I hope you’ll love her as much as you loved Hirka 🙏🥰
