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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