Nothing inspires art like love

October 4, 2018February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

October is here! And with October comes the one holiday we don’t celebrate in Sweden that I really wished we did – Halloween. Luckily I have my buddy, Amy Spector, to bring some Halloween celebrations into my life, and we’re celebrating by releasing Buried Desires #3. This year we’ve invited Neptune Flowers to write with us, so instead of a double feature, we have a three-story anthology. Cool, ey?

Snowflake I will talk more about The Reluctant Ghost Whisperer by Neptune Flowers and Pretty Plastic (Cold Fingers #3) by Amy Spector later, but now, it’s time to show off Theophile Lekas, ice sculptor extraordinaire.

Theo is amazing. He is fascinated by ice, he can create the most amazing sculptures, and he is willing to do just about anything to make life better for the love of his life, Dylan Mincer.

And if making Dylan’s life better means murdering a couple of people, well then Theo will murder a couple of people. You have to understand, Theo has loved Dylan since they were in school, he has – stalked is such a nasty word – kept track of him during the seventeen years that have passed since they left school, and now it’s time. It’s time to bring Dylan home.

Dylan needs him.

Dylan does need Theo. His life is not going well. He hates his job, his co-workers bully him, but he’s too insecure to leave. So when Theo steps into his life and shows him what love can be like he grasps on to it.

The Snowflake is a story about ice, it’s a story about art, and about hope. It’s also a story about a sociopath in love. I would definitely label it as romance, but it’s also horror. Don’t forget that it’s horror LOL. It’s October, there should be some horror, right?

Buried Desires #3, The Reluctant Ghost Whisperer, The Snowflake, and Pretty Plastic (Cold Fingers #3) will be released on October 10th, but you’ll find them up for pre-order here:

books2read.com/BuriedDesires3

books2read.com/GhostWhisperer

books2read.com/TheSnowflake

books2read.com/PrettyPlastic

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FridayReads | Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn

March 2, 2018February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

Bloodraven I’m not one to re-read books, normally. So far this year I’ve found myself to re-read quite a few, though. Once I opened my folder with ebooks – I used to read epubs on an e-reader and only switched to using the Kindle app on my iPad when the e-reader broke down, so I have hundreds of books I haven’t even glanced at for a couple of years – I’ve found myself oohing and aahing over books forgotten.

One book that will never be forgotten as far as I’m concerned is Bloodraven by P.L. Nunn. I didn’t mean to read it again, but here we are.

Yhalen is captured by ogres and ogres are not nice creatures.

There is a lot of violence, lots of blood and pain, lots of evil, but there is also a political game, a long journey, and a fight for a better life. In a harsh world where no one will do you any favours your worst enemy might become your friend…and maybe even your lover.

This is not a fluffy romance for the fainthearted, it’s slow torture ending with love. I’m utterly impressed by P.L. Nunn’s ability to keep me interested all the way through the 660+ pages that this book is, so impressed by the way I’m getting invested in the characters and how I love them despite all the heinous things they do.

Hats off.

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A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but Yhalen soon learns that even the darkest fireside story only hinted at the brutality of these Northern warriors. He discovers the meaning of true fear at their hands, and only the awakening of ancient magic saves him from destruction.

Surviving ogre viciousness, he finds himself given to Bloodraven, the half ogre, half human war leader as a slave. Yhalen, refusing to bend, soon pays the price for offending prickly ogre pride.

But Bloodraven is no mindless, violent ogrish beast. Bloodraven has an agenda and Yhalen finds himself drawn in the wake into human and ogre politics, into bloodshed and cruelty and into the forbidden magic that is damnation in the eyes of his own people, but which might mean the difference between death and salvation.

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Worth His Salt – A Ghost Story

January 1, 2018February 12, 2019 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

I thought it would be fun to start 2018 with a book release, so today Worth His Salt – A Ghost Story (Tattooed Corpse Stories #2) is available to the world!

Book Cover Pink Slip by Amy Spector The Tattooed Corpse Series is a series of short stories that have nothing in common except that there at some point during the story will appear a body, the same body as in the previous stories and it has a snake tattoo on its forearm… These stories vary in genre and length (though they’ll all be pretty short) and the characters have nothing to do with each other – it is as it says on the cover ‘Different Time. Different Place. Same Body.’

I love being a writer, I love creating my own worlds, but sometimes you’re the only one in that world – apart from your characters, of course. Therefore it’s fun to take part in something that’s bigger than your own stuff, or at least I think so. We haven’t decided on how many stories there will be in the series but Amy Spector wrote the first one, Pink Slip – A Halloween Romance and now it’s time for Worth His Salt – A Ghost Story.

Worth His Salt is a paranormal little tale about Eldred Henstare, a not so powerful witch, and Mo Vin, a man living next to an abandoned lighthouse.

Two and a half year ago we bought a house in Småland, Sweden (Where Astrid Lindgren came from if you’ve read Pippi Longstocking or any of her other stories), and it’s lovely. I don’t regret moving here but, and that’s a big but, there is no sea.

I grew up on the west coast, I walked along the coastline every day with my dogs, I come from a long line of fishermen, maritime pilots, and lighthouse keepers. When I was a kid my dad use to take me to the ruins of a house on the cliffs where his grandparents used to live. My great-grandfather was manning the pilot look-out tower when it still was in use. It’s high up on the cliffs, the fall down is several metres and they lived there, far away from any civilization and it was even farther back then, with their children. I would worry myself to death, but I guess it was different times back then.

Anyway, I wanted to write a lighthouse story, so I did. There is nothing that fills you with such awe as seeing the sea, dark and grey when a storm is brewing.

Eldred Henstare is a not so powerful witch who’s been left in charge of helping the city’s lingering spirits to move on. He usually handles it pretty well, but something’s wrong with the spirit leading him to the abandoned lighthouse.

Mo Vin likes his quiet life in the cottage next to the lighthouse, at least it’s quiet until one night when Eldred Henstare—young, beautiful and crazy—arrives. After that night things aren’t the same. A man is found dead on the beach outside Mo’s cottage, and he’s almost sure he’s the one who killed him, except it doesn’t make sense. Why would he kill anyone?

Eldred needs to get rid of the ghost haunting Mo. If he doesn’t Mo’s life is in danger, but to do it he needs both Mo and his brother Lachtin to help out.

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