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Bjørn Larssen is a Norse heathen made in Poland, but mostly located in a Dutch suburb, except for his heart which he lost in Iceland. Born in 1977, he self-published his first graphic novel at the age of seven in a limited edition of one, following this achievement several decades later with his first book containing multiple sentences and winning awards he didn’t design himself. His writing is described as ‘dark’ and ‘literary’, but he remains incapable of taking anything seriously for more than 60 seconds.

Bjørn has a degree in mathematics and has worked as a graphic designer, a model, a bartender, and a blacksmith (not all at the same time). His hobbies include sitting by open fires, dressing like an extra from Vikings, installing operating systems, and dreaming about living in a log cabin in the north of Iceland. He owns one (1) husband and is owned by one (1) neighbourhood cat.

Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner (Storytellers)
2020 Stabby Award Nominee (Children)

Children

Gods make lousy parents. All Magni wants is peace and quiet, but when your father is the God of thunder, you don’t get to live the life you want. When Thor destroys all his son knows and loves, Magni vows to bring prosperity and end the violence… forever. But can you escape cruelty in a universe built on it, or the shadow of your father when everyone calls you by his name? Maya, her rage more powerful than she knows, wants freedom to pursue her own destiny. Neither torture nor blackmail can make her obedient or pretty enough for Freya, her foster-mother and Goddess of love. Fighting for independence and revenge, can a mere human win a game where Gods dictate the rules? 2020 Stabby Nominee –Best Self-Published/Independent Novel Amazon • Barnes and Noble • Bookshop

Gods make lousy parents.

All Magni wants is peace and quiet, but when your father is the God of thunder, you don’t get to live the life you want. When Thor destroys all his son knows and loves, Magni vows to bring prosperity and end the violence… forever. But can you escape cruelty in a universe built on it, or the shadow of your father when everyone calls you by his name?

Maya, her rage more powerful than she knows, wants freedom to pursue her own destiny. Neither torture nor blackmail can make her obedient or pretty enough for Freya, her foster-mother and Goddess of love. Fighting for independence and revenge, can a mere human win a game where Gods dictate the rules?

2020 Stabby Nominee –Best Self-Published/Independent Novel

Amazon • Barnes and Noble • Bookshop

Storytellers

Would you murder your brothers to keep them from telling the truth about themselves? On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger – Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners' lives forever… by ending them. Others are keen on changing Gunnar’s life as well. Depending on who gets to tell his story, it might lead towards an unwanted marriage, an intervention, rejoining the Church, letting the elf drive him insane, or succumbing to the demons in his mind. Will he manage to write his own last chapter? Readers' Favorite Gold Medal – Best Historical Fiction Novel Amazon • Barnes and Noble • Bookshop

Would you murder your brothers to keep them from telling the truth about themselves?

On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger – Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners’ lives forever… by ending them.

Others are keen on changing Gunnar’s life as well. Depending on who gets to tell his story, it might lead towards an unwanted marriage, an intervention, rejoining the Church, letting the elf drive him insane, or succumbing to the demons in his mind. Will he manage to write his own last chapter?

Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal – Best Historical Fiction Novel

Amazon • Barnes and Noble • Bookshop

Vikings

How much did history have in common with the History TV series? Did you know that History Channel is not actually a TV channel that shows historical documentaries? I didn’t, when I saw the first episode of Vikings, and so I firmly believed that Ragnar and Rollo were brothers, Ragnar’s wife Lagertha gave him a son called Björn and a daughter called Gyda, and Ragnar was a poor farmer who climbed from the bottom to the top thanks to nothing but his courage and faith. Vikings: from history to History reveals the truth – if such thing exists – about Ragnar, Lagertha, Aslaug, Björn, Ivar and his brothers, Rollo, and Athelstan. Free download for newsletter subscribers

How much did history have in common with the History TV series?

Did you know that History Channel is not actually a TV channel that shows historical documentaries? I didn’t, when I saw the first episode of Vikings, and so I firmly believed that Ragnar and Rollo were brothers, Ragnar’s wife Lagertha gave him a son called Björn and a daughter called Gyda, and Ragnar was a poor farmer who climbed from the bottom to the top thanks to nothing but his courage and faith.

Vikings: from history to History reveals the truth – if such thing exists – about Ragnar, Lagertha, Aslaug, Björn, Ivar and his brothers, Rollo, and Athelstan.

Free download for newsletter subscribers