🔥VARDARI 3 IS DONE! The final words were hammered down on a train to Stockholm, with the energy that only finishing a trilogy can provide. I’m ripped out of an escape room I’ve loved for years, and I closed my laptop in tears. The ultimate volume of the Vardari trilogy is officially submitted.

Just a quick note to all French readers: L’Evna is now out in French Canada, completing the whole Raven Rings trilogy! Gorgeous and edge painted editions, translated by Stéphanie Parent. Get them at Saint Jean Editeur 🙌❤️ saint-jeanediteur.com/auteur/pette... #siripettersen #theravenrings #fantasy

🦄 A milestone will be planted in Lillehammer on June 6th! Norwegian Literature Festival is dedicating a full day to fantasy! I’m proud to be giving the opening keynote and a lecture on worldbuilding. (All in Norwegian) Program and tickets at litteraturfestival.no/fantasyfest/

If you see this post a vampire who is not Dracula.

2025. Some will say the best about it was how quickly it went by, but weltschmerz is the norm for northerners, no hindrance for crashing into gloom like a snow plough in sequins! The yearly Bragathon is here and I'm grateful, especially for these reasons: www.siripettersen.com/blog/the-bra...

Three days left to grab a copy! 🥰

🎁🔥A great holiday gift for you: Right now, my US publisher Arctis has IRON WOLF FREE for all readers on NetGalley! Iron Wolf is the first in the Vardari trilogy, listed by Kirkus as one of the best books of the century, so get your copy before it’s archived at the end of the year! Happy holidays!🥰

Ein feiner Abriss (auf Norwegisch) über norwegische Sci-Fi und Fantasyliteratur bis in die Gegenwart. Einige AutorInnen wie Siri Pettersen sind auch auf Deutsch übersetzt.

«WHEN IS VARDARI 3 COMING?» My darlings, I have no life these days and I suspect you’ll love me for it 😬 I’m in the stage of writing where I see no one, do nothing, post nada, and make frightful food choices, all for Juva and the final i volume in the Vardari series. I get lots of questions so...>

The Twistrose Key is back in a wildly gorgeous illustrated edition in Norwegian! til.ark.no/vindeltorn

This Raven Rings tattoo is so insane I could cry! Mars from Austria has the last sentence of The Might along the leg. A reminder that they were meant to explore and create, and that they are exactly where they need to be. The sentence: (SPOILER) «The space between worlds enveloped them.»

Early birds caught a dose of fantasy on TV this morning! Great talk with Vår and Cathrine at «Good morning Norway» about @fantastiskforlag.bsky.social , what @tonealmhjell.bsky.social and I are writing now, and how the genre is taking over the world😬 See it on TV2 Play in Norway.

At first I thought she’d lost a bet, but it turns out Marlen Lund has read The Raven Rings trilogy five times, and discreetly marked the occasion … And I’ve seen many Raven Rings tattoos, I really did, but this is level «hold my beer» so now I’ll be … >

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

Vi er i gang! 🤩

🔥Norwegian fantasy lovers wanted it - we did it! WE ARE STARTING A FANTASY IMPRINT!❤️ www.siripettersen.com/blog/fantast... @fantastiskforlag.bsky.social @tonealmhjell.bsky.social @tonjetornes.bsky.social

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🔥🇨🇦 FRENCH CANADA launch today and HOLY CORVUS will you look at that edge painting! 😍🙌 I am stunned! Absolutely gorgeous edition of «La fille d’Odin» by my brilliant Canadian publisher Saint Jean Editeur. They truly went all in on these, using the designs that were first created for these books 🥰

A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.

Big, somewhat leftfield news: I am kicking off a podcast with the wonderful @emmanewman.bsky.social under the title Starship Alexandria. It's a cosy book and film recommendation show where we take it in turns to rec things to one another and discuss them.

Tenåringsbarnets norsk er dårligere enn hennes engelsk, men bøkene hun vil lese er på engelsk. Hun motsetter seg oversatte bøker (jeg argumenterer ikke dette mer med en tenåring, ellers takk). Hun elsker @siripettersen.bsky.social sine bøker, men må lese noe annet også. Noen gode forslag?

My author copies of Tangled Roots arrived today! Out in the UK on April 10th! @pushkinpress.com

Hvis du er veldig urolig for pensjonen din nå, så vil jeg anbefale å følge @sveinfroystad.bsky.social. Han er svært bra for blodtrykket, og akkurat nå er det viktig å ta vare på helsa :)

April 2nd and it’s still there 😅

🤯 Iron Wolf is in Kirkus Review’s «Best Books of the 21st Century (so far)» They told me last night and I checked the YA category. It was true. I checked again. Still there. I asked if this was actually real. They said yes. I checked the time difference. No April’s fool.

The new Kirkus Magazine has a feature where I talk about the real reason fantasy is so vital, in an interview by the wonderful @amygoldschlager.bsky.social: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

My interview with @siripettersen.bsky.social, a self-proclaimed death-metal, parental-advisory type plotter of fantasy novels: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Can hardly believe I get to say this but the new Kirkus Magazine has a feature where I talk about the real reason fantasy is so popular and important. A gratifying chance to gush about the genre I love, in an interview by the wonderful Amy Goldschlager: www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Fantasy that can be enjoyed by people who usually don’t read Fantasy: The RAVEN RINGS Trilogy by Siri Pettersen. aryngve.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Are you kidding me?! Silver Throat hit the Amazon bestseller list in Dark Fantasy and was a ‘Hot New Release’ in its US launch week, y’all this is translated norse fantasy from Norway, I can’t even …🔥❤️

Emotions as superpowers! 🤩💙🌊Yesterday, @ninaborge.bsky.social launched «The blue Crystal», book 1 in her FIRST fantasy series, and it's about merpeople! I was allowed an early read, and she has done something truly beautiful here: Made empathy a superpower!

Needed this today. Eastern woods of Oslo.

A memory popped up, posted three years ago today. It's still true. www.siripettersen.com/blog/why-lov...

We launched Highland Pro this morning! Three years of work. I’m incredibly proud of the app and the team that made it. quoteunquoteapps.com/highland-pro/

Notice the resistance 💪

Out in the US now, incase you missed it on tuesday🥰

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🔥The world is bursting at the seams, hard-earned wins are crumbling at an alarming rate, but you know what, I hope they launch the brains out of SILVER THROAT in the US today! I hope tens of thousands will read about the false priest turning Náklav with lies and deceit. >

I have been dead for so long i had no idea this series even existed and i need it NOW

Read it and fuel the flame. Stories matter! 🔥🔥🔥

🔥The world is bursting at the seams, hard-earned wins are crumbling at an alarming rate, but you know what, I hope they launch the brains out of SILVER THROAT in the US today! I hope tens of thousands will read about the false priest turning Náklav with lies and deceit. >

The 11th edition of Odin’s Child in Norway comes with a sticker, but don’t worry, it peels right off! 🥰

Better late than never: Even 2024 was a strong contestant in the yearly Bragathon, with a Kirkus Star, a sale to French Canada, Pyrkon, Norconsf, Helsinki, and a potato sack from Lars Mytting, without potatoes. If you’re into all that, you’ll find all the highlights at siripettersen.com/blog 🥰

For a second there I nearly thought it was a bit much, but as we say up north: It aint full ‘til it spills. Merry Christmas, dear friends. And Kirkus: Thank you for the starred review, it ended up crowning my tree as promised ❤️

The Kirkus Star is all a writer could want for Christmas, and now it’s mine, my precious! ⭐️ «Vast in scope, intricately plotted, and utterly original,» they say about Silver Throat which is launching in the US February 25th. (Out for pre-order now!)

In case you’ve been wondering.

She is so adorable, I love her to bits! Thank you 🥰❤️

Hey, remember to enable two factor authentication on your brand new Bluesky account :)

Did not see this coming on a grey morning: Silver Throat is nominated for the Adlibris Prize 2024 in Sweden! 🥰 This is a reader’s choice award, where readers vote for their favorite among ten nominees in different categories. Silver Throat is in YA and voting starts today, just saying😬