Lene Fogelberg Blog

Lene Fogelberg is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Beautiful Affliction: A Memoir. A native Swede, she has lived in the US, Europe, and Asia. The Lightning Tree is the first book in her YA trilogy, The Natural Intelligence Revolution.

About Lene

Book announcement

October 8, 2014 | 42 Comments

I am happy and excited (!!!!!) to announce my upcoming memoir The Cicadas to be published fall 2015 by She Writes Press. I came in contact with publisher Brooke Warner this summer and I am very impressed by her work. She Writes Press started in 2013 and is a new and hungry player on the changing l…

Something cooking

October 7, 2014 | 10 Comments

Hello friends! We’ve had a wonderful stay in Singapore. A totally relaxed weekend, enjoying the nature and the ocean air. We stayed at our favorite hotel on Sentosa island close to the ocean and went for long walks along Palawan beach. Nothing beats gazing out to the horizon while the waves are t…

Stay cool

September 26, 2014 | 4 Comments

Hello! I just have to show you this picture I took from the car window in an intersection here in Jakarta. Motorbikes with three, even four, people on them is an ordinary sight here — nothing strange about it. Fortunately the traffic is very slow, but still, I would feel much more comfortable if…

It’s all in the details

September 16, 2014 | 4 Comments

Hello friends! I feel much better now, did I tell you I had some sort of Asian virus that completely knocked me out? Well — it was interesting to see the inside of a Jakarta hospital emergency unit. The doctors and the nurses were amazing, I loved them all and after they gave me morphine for the…

Writers & Fishermen

September 8, 2014 | 8 Comments

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.” — Jarod Kintz

Own Yourself

September 3, 2014 | 8 Comments

I was sitting in the couch close to my youngest daughter. We were browsing the internet for a school project and we ended up in WikiHow. Wow — once you’re trapped in there, it’s almost impossible to get out. 🙂 Or how about interesting articles such as: How to spin a pencil around your thumb, How…

Things will work out

August 26, 2014 | 15 Comments

When I have a lot going on in my life, I tend to worry. During this morning’s exercise swim, I came across a single yellow frangipani flower, floating in the pool. It made me smile. The color yellow carries a whole story for me. About six years ago, my family and I were about to move from Sweden t…

Beautiful Indonesia

August 18, 2014 | 8 Comments

Yesterday, August 17, was Indonesia’s Independence Day, celebrated all over the country. About a year ago, my husband and I had occasion to visit the place where the Indonesian flag was born: Hotel Majapahit in Surabaya. The days following the Indonesian Declaration of Independence, on August 17 in…