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

Happy Valentine’s day!

February 14, 2015 | 12 Comments

Here’s a big, green heart for ya! Love you guys and thanks for all support! You might have noticed I’ve been experimenting a little with my blog’s visual appearance. I am trying to figure out which way to move forward… In a couple of weeks my marketing peeps will give my website a complete make-ov…

New Cover

February 10, 2015 | 8 Comments

Lots of stuff happening! Got the new cover today! The long subtitle has been shortened to “A Memoir”, hope you like it as much as I do. Also, got my manuscript back from the proof reader, wow, very interesting! My editors have done a fantastic job and there really wasn’t that much to consider, but…

New Subtitle

February 4, 2015 | 8 Comments

An interesting development yesterday! Do you remember I told you of our search for the perfect subtitle? Turns out the marketing team wasn’t that keen on the subtitle! I got an email yesterday: they’d been in a meeting discussing it and they asked me if I would agree to take it out; just keep “a me…

Book Cover!

January 31, 2015 | 23 Comments

The cover for my upcoming memoir is finalized! I am super excited to present the cover for Beautiful Affliction! Several times a day I’m checking out the cover, (which I have saved in my iPhone), just to make sure it’s real, I guess. This whole thing is starting to feel surreal, but it’s really hap…

The world is a book

January 25, 2015 | 6 Comments

Look at this perfect birthday gift my mom and dad gave me when we were back in Sweden! A cushion from Svenskt Tenn with the famous quote from St. Augustine: “The world is a book and he who stays at home reads only one page.” I love it! In addition to the lovely quote, the color fits perfectly with…

New Pub Date!

January 21, 2015 | 13 Comments

Woohoo! We have a new publishing date for my upcoming memoir! BEAUTIFUL AFFLICTION: A Memoir of Surviving Heart Disease, will be released September 15, 2015. This is great news, since this gives us more wiggle room when planning the book tour that will span over three (!) continents: Asia, Europe…

Space Peacock

January 20, 2015 | 2 Comments

Hello again! Just thought I’d pop in and clarify the colorful round buttons up in the right corner of this blog. They are small and easy to miss, but these are my social media links, in the following order: Twitter, Facebook (my author page), google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and the last button is an…

Surprise in Sweden

January 17, 2015 | 10 Comments

Hello dear friends! Long time no see! Sorry for that, we have been super busy! We have spent one intensive week in Sweden and it was wonderful to see friends and family again, which we haven’t seen for two years. Late one evening, when I returned back to the hotel, I had an e-mail in my inbox from…