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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My latest novel, Eilífðarvetur (Evig vinter/Winter Eternal) was recently published in Swedish by Kraxa förlag. I went to the Gothenburg Book Fair. It's huge! And I'm very happy!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Rejoice! My novella, Eilífðarvetur (e. Winter Eternal), will be published in Swedish this fall by Kraxa förlag, translated by Sara Lindberg. When I lived in Sweden I dreamt of being published there one day. That day comes in September.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Undur útgáfa er komin hingað á Bluesky. Endilega fylgja og Undur fylgir til baka. Lengi hafði mig langað til að stofna útgáfu þar sem efni tengt fantastík væri í fyrirrúmi. Nóvellan mín Eilífðarvetur er upphafið. Ef þetta floppar ekki get ég fylgt ýmsum langtímaplönum eftir.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Brilliant! Rauðvín, kristall og kaffi í boði :-)

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ný bók, kíkið endilega í hóf! Siðmenningin leið undir lok. Aldir hafa liðið. Á einangraðri eyju sem eitt sinn hét Ísland ríkir viðvarandi vetur og frumstæðir ættbálkar draga fram lífið. Tveir sagnaþulir bjarga vélkonu sem býr yfir botnlausri þekkingu úr fortíðinni - og flótti hefst yfir vetrarríki.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I don't write unless I'm listening to music. I simply can't have silence when working. 'Tis the enemy. I figured I should, once in a while, recommend writing-music. First one: Carbon Based Lifeforms. A Swedish duo that makes high quality psybient. Often helps with getting the flow going.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"Don't walk on the grass." (Unless you want to break your neck.)

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This, by Matthew Boroson, is pretty convincing. I knew exactly none of it before reading the original post on Facebook.

A catalogue of charges of plagiarism of Tanith Lee leveled against Neil Gaiman by Matthew Boroson

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Forgot to post this. A new Christmas tradition. Isn't it just wonderful?

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Went to the library early in the morning when few were there, used the self check out and snuck out. It's a very, very weird mix of books. Exciting-weird for me, since now I can truly research for the novel.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Last year I finished two series. Two finales where I could neither let my readers nor myself down. This year -- that is, right now -- I'm starting a novel that has been brewing for awhile and no one knows anything about. There's a certain serenity that goes along with that.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Playing Baldur's Gate 3 in Honour Mode is intense!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Last night a news site wasn't the first place I heard about the eruption but from a friend standing on her balcony, sending the picture to our table top game group.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

An intense year. Two novels published, not a normal thing, stuff happened and developed until I was in this situation. I gave everything I had. After both were out I rested (was a vegetable) for a month, a bit afraid I wouldn't have more in me. And that's nonsense! The itch is back! Where is my pen?

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

For the first time in 25 years I took part in a (casual prerelease) Magic: The Gathering tournament. Won 3 out of 4 matches and got me some sweet boosters! My life counter from '96 was 6 years older than one of the opponents ...

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

"Welcome home, dad!" #Worldcon was amazing but it's good to be back home. We went straight for icecream.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

A 2nd novel sent to the editor this year, in time for @glasgow2024.bsky.social! Here I'm holding the one launched at @icecon.bsky.social. Can't wait to absorb everything at #Worldcon, meeting new and old friends. I'll be on two panels: Combining Genres and Building Fictional Folklores. #Glasgow2024

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Icelandic witchcraft is beautifully demented. Necropants. Made from the skin of a dead human. The person must accept the flaying before their death. The pants must be worn right away so they grow on you. Then you steal a coin from a poor widow, put it into the ballsack, producing endless money.

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Sveina @viskan.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Fór ekki að skæla! En fékk tár í augun samt. Smá kusk, þarf líklega að þurrka af... En mæli EINDREGIÐ með að þeir sem hafa verið að lesa bækurnar hans @emilhpetersen.bsky.social skelli sér í að lesa Skuld, gæti mögulega hafa byrjað á henni í gærkvöldi og klárað rétt í þessu...

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Ran up to my office to jot stuff down but snuck back out. My son and his friends were eating cookies and playing some sort of Pictionary. I'll allow it.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Icelandic horses are exceptionally calm given the lousy weather they have to put up with.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 27/05/2024

What a weekend! Multiple panels, awesome people, new book launched and I received the first Icelandic SFF award! For outstanding contribution to The Fantastic. Thank you, @icecon.bsky.social, it means the world to me!

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Björn Friðgeir @bjornfr.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

And for our final panel, the three GoHs united to talk about Isolation. @scalzi.com , @emilhpetersen.bsky.social and Kirsty Logan with Giti Chandra moderating. #IceCon2024 @icecon.bsky.social

John Scalzi, Emil Hjörvar Petersen, Kirsty Logan and Giti Chandra

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Icecon 2028 @icecon.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

A great start to the Con at Stúdentakjallarinn this evening. @emilhpetersen.bsky.social & Kirsty Logan & @scalzi.com read for us

Emil Hjörvar Petersen reading a translation from the first book in the series about the mother and daughter duo Bergrún & Brá

John Scalzi reading his short story Grizzly Bear Conflict Manager

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Johan Jönsson @johanj.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Gårdagens bibliotekssamtal: @hildur.bsky.social, @emilhpetersen.bsky.social och @armannja.bsky.social, @alexanderdan.bsky.social om ämnet Allt sem þú vildir vita um furðusögur en þorðir ekki að spyrja. (Ur bild: Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir och moderator Brynhildur Heiðar- og Ómarsdóttir.)

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Kápufrumsýning! Útgáfuhóf laugardaginn næstkomandi, 25. maí, kl. 17:00 í Veröld - húsi Vigdísar. Þið eruð öll velkomin! Lítið endilega við og fagnið með mér. Fimm dagar í þetta. Lokabókin um Bergrúnu og Brá er að koma út.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Þetta er að gerast! Króníka hefur sent Handan Hulunnar: Skuld í prentun! Lokabókin um Bergrúnu og Brá fer að koma út. Brjálæðislega flott kápa frumsýnd á næstu dögum. Úfgáfuhóf auglýst bráðum, öllum verður boðið. Margrét Örnólfs les hljóðbókina hjá Storytel, rétt eins og hinar þrjár. Allt að smella!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Thursday night multitasking. Play role play on internet, paint minis, take notes for a horror novel, drink Fanta Lemon. Neeeerd. Yes, I am!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Two talents of mine that have been dormant for a couple of decades: I can speak almost exactly like Gollum and recite most of Braveheart. What if I combine those two ...? X-factor, here I come!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Reading upon a thing for a novel, making long notes, even at unholy hours, it grows in yer head until you're almost too afraid to tackle it. Turns out, it just needed a couple of sentences. The context around it makes the rest self-explanatory. Still, it was all necessary. Weird thing, the process.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

It never gets easier filling the first page of a manuscript. To begin creating something out of nothing. The blank page stares back, patronizing you, filling you with fear until you shrug, say fuck it and write a word, another one, another ... until the itch returns, and you're off.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

Editor reading my new novel. Should clean office. Don't wanna. Eat chips.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Can't wait, Icecon is the best! It's such an honor to be a GoH. I might start to post in English now. Would that be weird? I finally have a novel out in English and I'm looking for an agent for one of my main series. Details on my webpage Icecon mentions. Let it be known. See you in Iceland!

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Það er brilliant, kærar þakkir! :-) Og núna þegar ég hef klárað söguna um B&B þarf ég aftur að leita leiða til að koma þeim út fyrir landsteinana. Fyrsta bókin í Sögu eftirlifenda hefur verið þýdd (ég revise-aði hana í leiðinni), Skybound gerði það til að þróa TV, en líka fyrir útgáfu down the line.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Icecon er best. Heil helgi þar sem skrafað er um fantasíur, vísindaskáldsögur og hrollvekjur með skemmtilegu fólki. Erlendu heiðursgestirnir eru John Scalzi og Kirsty Logan! Skrá sig!

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Icecon 2028 @icecon.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Only 70 days until IceCon '24! Can't wait to meet you all and ofc our wonderful guests of honor: @scalzi.com, @emilhpetersen.bsky.social and Kirsty Logan.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

Er aftur á kafi í bókinni eftir ritstjórnarlestur, en af því að það er ekki jafn intensíft og frumskrif hef ég betra rými til að hugsa um annað og er ósjálfrátt farinn að hringja í alla sem ég vinn einhver verkefni með. Eiginlega bara til að blaðra. Búinn að vera mikið einn með sögupersónum.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Jamm :-) Smá pása til að hafa áfram fullan hvata.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Ég er samt í nokkurra daga langþráðu fríi. Kúpla smá út, endurhlaða til þess að bæði editera Skuld og koma skrifum á 3. bók um Halldór Kjartansson (Dauðaleit, Bannhelgi) í gang.

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Emil Hjörvar Petersen @emilhpetersen.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

Skuld, lokabókin um Bergrúnu og Brá, var tæp sex ár í bígerð, lokavinnslan var afar þétt, ég náði deadline og aðeins fjórum dögum síðar var ritstýran búin að lesa, hún var svo spennt. "Þvílík saga!" Hjúkk! Auðvitað þarf að skoða ýmis atriði en heilt yfir er hún ánægð. Ég er ekkert smá feginn.

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