Novel projects

My second novel, Tochwyatis, was published on 2012-01-21 as an e-book using Smashwords.

Here's a blurb about Tochwyatis:

The gods have slept for more than seventeen centuries and are due to wake up in twenty years. When that happens, Kumulhan, High Priest of the Sky Father among the nomads of the Tagashai steppe wants his god to be supreme over the other gods. To ensure that, he launches an army of elite nomad cavalry to conquer the world.

Tochwyatis, a young sailor born into a poor family but with an aptitude for sorcery, finds himself playing an important part in the efforts to defeat Kumulhan.

At a mere 66,000 words (equivalent to about 220 pages of print), this novel should come as a welcome relief to anybody fed up with multi-volume series of doorstops.

I would also like to mention that a Swedish translation of the first chapter got a very favorable response when presented at a writing course recently.

My third novel, provisionally named Healer and Killer but likely to get another name, is in progress and may get published in a few years.

My first novel? That's Borkin the Archer. It needs a thorough revision, so it may appear any decade now (provided I live that long).

På svenska

Min egen översättning till svenska av första kapitlet av min fantasy-roman Tochwyatis fick ett så översvallande positivt mottagande nyligen på en skrivarkurs att jag överväger att antingen själv översätta hela romanen eller låta en professionell översättare översätta den och erbjuda den till ett förlag här i Finland (eller eventuellt i Sverige). Kolla här några gånger per år för att se om det blir något av de här funderingarna.