Lene Fogelberg Blog

Dear friends, Thank you so much for the warm welcome that The Oaken Queen received on publication day! On October 30, 2023, the second installment in The NI Revolution Trilogy was released, and it immediately became a no 1 bestseller on Amazon Sweden in the category of YA Fan…

It’s only one week until publication day of my YA novel The Lightning Tree! I can barely believe it! The Main Character I thought I’d tell you a little bit more about the main character, seventeen-year-old Flora Reed. In the opening of the story, she struggles to adapt to life after he…

Next month The Lightning Tree will be out in the world! Woo-hoo! I thought I’d tell you a little bit more about it and what inspired me to write this story. Introduction The Lightning Tree is the first installment of The Natural Intelligence Revolution Trilogy. A contempor…

Friends, I am beyond excited to share the cover for my novel The Lightning Tree with you! This is the first installment of a YA trilogy that will be out March 29, 2022. Andrew Davis, the cover artist, has captured so much of the story in his design, and I was completely floored when I fir…

I DID IT! I finally finished my big writing project that I have been working on for the past four years! Such an amazing feeling! I have been hard at work for months to complete the editing, and I can finally say that I. AM. DONE. (Well, a text is always subjected to tweaks right up unti…

Happy Holidays, everyone! How are you doing? This has been a strange and difficult year, to say the least. In the middle of the pandemic, we moved from Kuala Lumpur and back home to Sweden. We landed in March, and enjoyed the light spring evenings and then the beautiful Swedish summer (I …

This time of year, I like to think back on the year we’re about to leave behind, as well as the possibilities of the one ahead. A few years ago, I started a tradition that has stuck with me: to choose a theme word in the beginning of the year to guide and inspire me as I pursue my goals. …

When our girls were small and the days whirled by in a daze of everyday stress and mess, we tried to squeeze in some quality parenting as often as our sleep-deprived brains could muster. One of the principles we felt was important to teach them, was gratitude. So when they got something nice…