My writing life
I’ve loved stories for as long as I can remember. I’m sure it started because I was read to as a child. My parents and grandparents read me everything from fairy tales to the classic children’s books. And once I could read myself, you’d usually find me with my nose in a book.
All I wanted for Christmas and birthdays was books, books, books. Back then there was no greater joy than a new book in my hands.
Eventually I started writing my own stories, but it never crossed my mind that I could become an author. Not even when I picked up writing again as an adult.
In 2007 I started on what would become my first manuscript. Even then, Silja Frost was the main character, and she stayed with me through every version of that first manuscript.
After ten years I put the story aside and decided to start over with a blank page. The only things I kept were Silja as the main character and a few of the other characters. Over the next two years, my debut “Det du eier evig” took shape.
In the spring of 2021, just days after I had quit my job as a lower secondary school teacher, I got an email from Kari Marstein at Gyldendal saying they were interested in the manuscript I had sent in. I could hardly believe it was true.
Three years later, “Det du eier evig” was on bookstore shelves all over Norway – another pinch-me moment. The sale to Sweden in the fall of 2024 belongs in the same category. I’m so grateful for the chance I’ve been given.
Writing book two, “Selv om himmelen faller”, was very different. Suddenly I had to get used to the idea that someone was waiting for what I wrote.
And after so much lovely feedback, would I manage to write a new book that readers would like just as much?
There were plenty of doubts along the way, and life took some turns that got in the way of focus and writing time. But I stuck with it, and now a new Silja Frost story is on its way to readers. I hope it brings you lots of reading pleasure and has a good journey out into the world.
And now it’s time to start on book three. Silja Frost is ready for new adventures!
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