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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…

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 th…

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, H…

Into the jungle…

August 7, 2014 | 12 Comments

Hello dear friends, Vacation is over and this week I have been diving into my Work-In-Progress manuscript. Thought I might come up to the surface and give you a sneakpeak into what will be my imaginary home this fall. Part of my manuscript takes place in the Javanese Jungle, complete with demons…

Inspiration in Singapore

July 16, 2014 | 4 Comments

We are back in Jakarta from Singapore, arrived late last evening. Soul and mind rejuvenated by sights like this one: the Science Museum at Marina Bay. Have you ever seen such a building? Like a giant waterlily, rising above its pond. To further enhance the effect there is an actual pond of purpl…

Happy summer(?) writing!

July 3, 2014 | 10 Comments

Summer is here! This is at least what my “body-clock” is telling me. Growing up in Sweden gives you a very precise sense for when to expect snow, darkness and cold or light evenings, birds chirping and warm winds from the ocean. It is in the way Swedes think and speak and plan the year. “We’ll …

Writing & Balance

June 27, 2014 | 8 Comments

This week I have been thinking about balance concerning my writing. Slowly I am working out a new schedule for myself: writing during weekdays and blogging during weekends is the goal. Normally I’d be writing when my girls are in school, but I picked (of course) the possibly hardest weeks to try…

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