I'll be giving a talk in RopeCon, Helsinki 2026: When Leviathan and catabasis meet - the terrifying allure of submarines

Whaddya know, someone has read and reviewed my fantasy book!

My shirt story Saints, Babes and Madmen is in this issue of the Icarus Writing Collective. Read for free online or order a paperback! It is a tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle, bless his earnest heart. (Check out the Cottingley fairy photo hoax before reading to get the most out of it).

Part two! And there's even more where this came from. 🤍

Announcing our upcoming 05: Blossom contributors! 🩷🌻

Work in progress woes: Let's just say that there's a reason that generators on a regular ship are, in principle, called *auxiliary* generators. But since they are usually called just generators or gens, I didn't register that and assumed things worked similarly on submarines. They... didn't.

My story Babes, Saints and Madmen will be published in the Icarus Writing Collective magazine ☺️ As Arthur Conan Doyle crosses into the afterlife, he finds himself in a luminous garden where childhood wonder lingers—and where the mystery of the Cottingley Fairies is quietly set right.

I've volunteered in the past for marine conservation with the Captain Paul Watson Foundation. I hope to do so in the future too. For a fleeting moment I appear on the video, at a Madrid vegan festival.

YAYYY! My story The Foghorn Knows will be published in the Brussels Review! Set on a remote Finnish lighthouse island in the early 1900s, it is a story of loss and human kindness. It is inspired by an obscure historical anecdote I stumbled on when volunteering on q lighthouse island last summer.

Imagining a fictional abandoned tin mine in Dartmoor for my story

A haunting story about a ghost of a Roman legionary who was never released from his watch, my story the Sentinel and Bodhisattva is available in this number. About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.

Short story idea folder

Playing a lighthouse keeper! A good opportunity to write in an inspiring environment.

Thinking about how waste, wear and tear of machinery and fueling/ballasting/topping the oil works at a ghostly submarine. At least the ghosts don't crap.

Sights from Åland, an island group in the Baltic Sea that houses the remains of a Russian garrison and a medieval Franciscan monastery, a restored medieval castle, beautiful churches and much more. Baltic heritage FTW!

Yay! My Finnish short story about a ghost submarine was shortlisted in a contest! I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.

Visby has been a Viking trading post, Hanseatic town, privateer stronghold and Danish fort. It remains magical. Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.

Thinking about how to make the dichotomy submarine-destroyer a cosmic allegory

In the Polish hotel: a military history museum and, on the menu, pig in five different ways

I wonder why I find such a comfort in immersing myself in long-lost times (such as tumultuous times of ancient Rome) when I just want to turn the present off . "This, too, shall pass", maybe.

My protagonists are very different in many ways, but they always end up being defiant and stubborn in some way to an extreme degree, often paying a terrible price and/or acting destructive because of it. They are raw, intense and larger than life. They *refuse*.

Me six years ago at the Sea of Cortez, protecting the vaquita dolphins.

Aaand looks like I'm writing a short story featuring an elderly Pythagoras. Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.

OMG fuck yeah! My short story The Sentinel and Boddhisattva was accepted to be published in a magazine! The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.

So we are having a conversation about which dinosaur took a largest dump with my husband.

Thinking about how a medieval Danish knight ends up being a privateer.

I should (re)read some classics in military/naval setting to have good examples about juggling multiple POV in a large group. Usually they have a distant omniscient narrator that doesn't deep dive into anyone's POV though. I want to jump into people's heads in my ghostly submarine on a mission story

So of course now I have an urge to write a historical novel about Mark Antony.

This aqueduct carried water to Almunecar - or Sexi Firmum Iulium as it was called in the Roman times.

Is "military ghost fiction" a genre? Because as of late, that is shaping up to be my niche!

Can anyone recommend books about Soviet WW2 submarine crews? More focused on the operations, tactics, organisation, culture and demographics than sub technology (that info is easily available).

Is it normal to be moved to tears by your own story? 😂 (Rhetorical question, I don't care if I'm normal or not). Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.

Watched the director's cut. Damn what a great movie it is and damn was it awful to serve at a submarine.

Today I'm thinking about submarines. This is for a short story I'm writing in Finnish.

Today I have been pondering what it feels like to be a blue whale or a humpback whale. I chose to portray a blue whale in my story, but humpbacks are definitely awesome too.

Baldur's Gate meets Paradise Lost in the Legacy of Wrath series. A child of tainted blood, Velimir grows up hardened by suffering. He grows into a ruthless man, plotting to plunge the world in chaos. After his bitter downfall, he vows to escape hell and unites forces with a former sworn enemy.