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Bjørn Larssen (he/him)

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Norse grimdark and historical fantasy author. Queer from the Tortured Authors Department. Queen's Book Asylum and Before We Go Blog contributor. ’Land’ (The Ten Worlds book 2) out now! https://www.bjornlarssen.com

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · May 25

🇮🇸 #Iceland, 1920. Side effects of too much truth include death… in this historical suspense novel set under the Northern lights.

🥇 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal – Best Historical Fiction.

📕 e-book (all stores) • paperback • hardcover • audiobook

➡️ www.bjornlarssen.com/storytellers

Right side: the cover of ‘Storytellers’ by Bjørn Larssen.

Left side – review quotes:
★★★★★ This story feels like how I would believe Iceland feels to an outsider looking in, rough, dark, and beautiful.
★★★★★ Bjørn Larssen’s “Storytellers”, firmly cements his place as a masterful storyteller in a 20th century saga set in rural and rugged Iceland.
★★★★★ If you don't believe that the blacksmith, a depressive alcoholic, could steal your heart, give this book a try.
★★★★★ This unique tale is storytelling at its best.
★★★★★ Storytellers is an incredible read. I'd love to go to Iceland one day - seeing the Northern Lights is on my bucket list. Even if I never do, though, I feel like I've kind of been there with this book. A suspenseful, hilarious, poignant, extraordinary book.
★★★★★ Hauntingly atmospheric, it somehow shows us all the dark bleakness of the place while inspiring us with wanderlust to see it. The author's love of Iceland shines through.
★★★★★ This exquisite tale comes together brilliantly at the end … in quite a satisfying and impressive way. The reader can feel the heart and soul that went into writing it.
★★★★★ There is something magical and enchanting about Storytellers that makes it an unputdownable book.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

Euphemia McGillicuddy ♥️

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

1600 words earlier, and now another 825 on the current WIP, giving me a total of 54,820 and my favourite bit of writing for today:

Euphemia McGillicuddy was in the kitchen of her very large 'rather modest' home frying up a mass of bacon, ready for when he husband got home.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

I am cackling in the best way.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

You… you caused a nationwide outage? ;)

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

That’s not what dogs are FOR, lady!

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

…yes, they do…

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

What is a Biz Markee precious?

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

#WIPSnips A glorious return of the actual WIP, Bloodbath & Beyond! Today, Freya meets Chad the human and they discuss things big and small. Including wars.

“Somewhere, I believe, the esteemed Terry Pratchett is smiling and nodding with approval at Larssen” –
@plstuart-author.bsky.social

“I fear nothing with Odin by my side!” Drops of saliva flew out of the man’s mouth. As if by magic, they stopped short of reaching Freya’s face. “The prize is Valhalla!”
“The prize for what?”
“For dying in battle.”
“But if you destroy everything,” Freya pointed out, bewildered, “there will be no Valhalla either.”
“Heh heh,” the man said, narrowing his eyes and patting the side of his nose with his finger. “Chad knows the answer, heh heh.”
“Who is Chad?”
“I am Chad, my lady. You simply make the war just a wee bit smaller.”
“But how would you know how big that one was…?”
“You start really small.” Chad was clearly a man used to explaining things to women. “Then you go a bit bigger, then a bit bigger, until it’s just the right size for skalds to sing about it, heh heh.”
“Isn’t that called compensating?”
“Compass – what?”
“It’s when the size of your… never mind. How will you know it’s the right size? Of war? I mean, suppose you go that one step too far…”

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 12h

#TaylorSwift has done it again, beating all the records, some of them her own (obviously). 14 UK #1 albums with only The Beatles and Robbie Williams (yup) having more – 15. Highest first week sales of her career. And sourdough bread!

Now I know The Life of a Showgirl, babe, and 9/10 it is.

A graph displaying first week sales for Taylor Swift’s albums in the UK. ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ is her best first week ever with over 470k sales.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 18h

And the thinking is done by electrified jelly stored inside human skulls. Which feels creepy when my jelly thinks about it.

Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 19h

Every so often I'll remember that we are all made of thinking meat and feel weird.

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 19h

For World Mental Health Day, I'll share a bit about myself.

I've struggled with my mental health on and off throughout my life. There's always been this persistent feeling that I don't belong, that there's something wrong with me, but countless professionals can't seem to tell me what that is.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 18h

#QueerPrompts My mental health, the way I understand it, not really. My self-esteem and feeling that I am more than just an abomination not even God could love (I was born in Poland…) – definitely.

(It doesn’t have to be ‘good rep’ – just don’t make The Gay a personal tragedy, then kill them off.)

🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 1d

#QueerPrompts October 10: Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

Graphics: The background is pumpkins surrounding a stack of books. The border has broken chains saying "BANNED", a rainbow saying LGBTQ History, books wrapped in tape or chains, pride flags, and cute Halloween characters.
Text: "October 2025" on top and "#QueerPrompts" and "Host: @CJAralore" on the bottom, all in a rainbow font.
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#QueerPrompts October 10: Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 18h

Do you normally get along with electronics? A character in one of my many WIPs breaks electronic devices by simply being near them.

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 22h

A stinky one!

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 22h

“Dr Karen Leader shared posts quoting and paraphrasing Kirk’s rhetoric. “This is Charlie Kirk,” she wrote herself. Her employer, Florida Atlantic Univ. released a statement announcing that she was placed on academic leave and citing “repeated comments... regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk”.

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

www.theguardian.com

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

Ugh 😬 I suppose this is coming my way too, then…

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

Very good question. Sandstone feels like a good candidate.

Charlie Delta (has been a ghost this whole time! 👻) @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Is salt the only rock that makes food more delicious? Have we checked all the others?

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

0 in 2025 for personal/mental health reasons, but hoping to resume my usual pace of one per year in 2026. I’m not a rapid release person.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

Partner?!

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

#PlotTober ‘Bloodbath & Beyond’ explains why Freya became the person/Goddess she is in The Ten Worlds – it’s her coming-of-age book.

Surviving three burnings at a stake (this is difficult to make funny, but #NorseMythology gonna Norse mythology) will do things to you.

Ange @gunsmile.bsky.social · 1d

#PlotTober Day 10: MC backstory & traumas

Answer the prompt on the card by quoting this post. Remember, answering a prompt is always optional. Even if you don't share it publicly, I hope the prompt encourages you to think about it privately.

#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

#PlotTober - a WIP plotting game by @gunsmile.bsky.social

10. What are some potential backstory or contextual reasons for your main character(s) having this kind of personality or behaving this way? In other words, what could have caused them to be the person they are at the start of your WIP?

Remember: Use the #PlotTober hashtag, engage with others, and have fun!

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

Whaaaat o_O I don’t want to upload my ID either! Did you get an email, or was it when you were adding a new book/changing an existing one?

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 1d

To paraphrase John Muir: 'Into Iceland I go, to lose my mind and find my soul' for #WorldMentalHealthDay 🫂 Where's your soothing place? 🤔 Arriving in 🇮🇸 is like an exhale of relief (but luckily I have closer ones too!)
#mentalhealthmatters #Iceland #scape #landscape #glaciers #climatecrisis🌡️ #ECK

Blonde woman in black clothing sitting on a rock looking out over a glacial lagoon with the glacier in the distance under a clear blue sky

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

I love this photo so much ♥️

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

#WritingLifeMonthly Promoting, actually. I’m okay with the writing, editing, revising, etc. But then I just want to silently plop the books online and disappear back into my cave. I also want to sell lots of them. Those two things don’t go together.

And sometimes, like now, I have writing burnout…

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 1d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #findtheglimmers #adhd #dyslexia

October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 1d

We're off to the fair for #FolkyFriday today! 🖤

Our theme this week is "Autumnals Fairs, Festivals, and Animals Brought to Market!"

From Samhain to Goose Fairs to Pack Fairs and beyond, it's a very folky season!

Tag related posts, art, songs and customs #FolkyFriday for shares until 6pm UK time!

a painting of people with the word frolic on the top

ALT: a painting of people with the word frolic on the top

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Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 1d

“Something got me started” – the cannon

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

AT ANY TIME. 😂

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