Christoffer Petersen

This is ‘the’ book that started a wonderful collaboration and a great friendship.

Karl Drinkwater and I have never met, but in the space of a few short years, we have collaborated on a novella we are both very proud of, and spent oodles of hours in video meets, reading and writing loooooooong emails, and, just recently, running around and shooting things on The Sulaco. Yep, that would be when playing video games! See Game Night! for more!

Curiously, Jane has known Karl for years, and years longer than me.

I’ve mentioned this before, but Jane read Karl’s book Turner. She followed him on social media, and kept me updated with Karl’s news. Then following a post regarding the trials of being an indie author – something I could really identify with – I reached out to Karl with a suggestion for collaboration. You see, I was rather impressed with Karl’s sci-fi novel Lost Solace and I wanted in, as one says.

Lost Solace is a fabulous and dark science fiction novel, but with plenty of humour to get you through the tense, often a little scary moments. If you like the film Alien and you’ve seen Event Horizon, then Lost Solace fits somewhere in between, though without the sheer terror I experienced with Event Horizon. I love it, but have yet to watch it a second time. I want to, but… shudder!

So, if you’re ready to explore a lost ship, while wearing a fancy exo-suit and accompanied by a cheeky AI – the good kind, before the tech bros in America ruined it for all of us – then Lost Solace is currently on sale for not a lot of money. See the obligatory and downright shameless links!

I love Lost Solace and I’m so pleased Karl agreed to let me contribute to the stories set in his universe.

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End of the Line is a personal favourite of mine, inspired once again by my travels in Alaska. I have been meaning to write several sequels, but Petra got in the way. 🙂 So, it’s time to do something about it.

End of the Line is currently enrolled in Kindle Unlimited (see the gazillion links below) but I will be pulling it from KU in early October. If you’re a KU subscriber and haven’t read this semi-apocalyptic (pre-COVID) adventure story, then now is the time. I will be moving the book to Substack, releasing it as a serial, and then using the momentum to write the sequel, also on Substack, with a new chapter each week. Yep, going for it. 🙂

The next novel in the series is cunningly titled End of the Day, with more planned – see promo image below.

I originally published End of the Line under a different pen name. It seemed like a good idea at the time. So if you’ve read the same book by Zoe McGuire then please note, it is the same book! Yeah… Don’t ask. 😉

What I like about this story is the blending of a end of the world stuff, together with a little romance. This was written and published in 2017, so it was before Seven Graves, One Winter. Will you find Inuit heroes in this book? Hell yeah! With a Black female lead and a Mexican engineer fella with some history. Does it open with some classic of-it’s-time gender stuff, i.e. a firefighter’s axe painted pink… Yeah, that too. But it’s fun, and exciting, and I love it. I hope you will too.

Oh, and despite moving the blog to Substack, it looks like Sundays are the days I post a release notification here. Shameless, I know. 🙂

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When a prominent Danish banker falls to his death from the top of an apartment building, Constable Petra ‘Piitalaat’ Jensen is the prime suspect in a classic case of did he fall, or was he pushed?

At Once Splendid and Fierce is a short story plucked from Christoffer Petersen’s Greenland Missing Persons series. It is not necessary to read the other stories in the series to enjoy this one.

Join Constable Petra ‘Piitalaat’ Jensen in this twisty short story from Greenland!

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When reports of a scarred stranger are connected to disappearances of women across the country, it’s up to Constable Petra ‘Piitalaat’ Jensen to discover the connection.

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This is my last blog.

I’ve been mulling over this for a while, and I could of course wait until the end of October to end the current year of blogging (I started on November 1st, 2021), but I have decided not to wait.

Here’s the thing, I am a writer and it’s getting harder and harder to make a living as a writer. Inflation has been a killer, and then along comes AI and it’s hoovering up all the writing jobs, so the likes of copywriters, translators, proofreaders and the like, are feeling the pressure. I have been doing piecemeal work alongside my writing these last two years, with a few hours of teaching English online, but even there AI has reduced English language learning to conversational English practice only. More or less, mostly less, and the jobs are few and far between.

What has this got to do with a daily blog post, you may ask?

Well, my original plan was to blog every day and give readers a reason to “check in” every day. Not every post was interesting, or of interest to all readers, but there was always the chance that the next post would be. That was my experience with another daily blogger I follow.

What I’m finding, however, is that I am running out of things to blog about. I don’t get out that much at the moment, and after a few years of daily blogs with a lot of “on this day in Greenland” I’ve exhausted a lot of the topics. I deliberately don’t want to talk about current affairs or politics. There are plenty of alternatives out there for that, so I’m writing about what I know, or what I have done, or want to do again.

I’m also writing on Substack.

And, when trying to do a daily blog and write on Substack, I’m feeling the squeeze.

So instead of writing two places at once, I’m going to concentrate on one place only. I will keep the website and upload information about and links to new books here, and change the name of the blog to ‘New Releases’ or something equally snappy. 🙂

Here’s my plan starting on September 1, 2024:

1. Subscribers to this blog will continue to receive an email each time I have a new release.
2. I will post something every day on Substack which can be read for free by following the link. Subscribers will get the post sent to their inbox – still free, but you have to sign up on Substack.
3. The free Substack post will include links to free and paid stories.

That’s basically it.

If you’re already following me on Substack (paid or free) then you will get your daily post sent to your inbox via Substack instead of via this website.

If you follow me here but choose not to follow on Substack, you will get an email with new releases, as and when they are released.

I started this blog with a bit of doom and gloom about the challenges writers face today. But I am still hyperpositive, and looking into the future, and excited about the opportunities I have to write more stories and to publish more books. I just need to be more efficient and focused. Consolidating the blog, short stories, and serialisations in one place will help me do just that, and enable me to bring more stories to life. I won’t hide the fact that the potential to sell stories via paid subscriptions on Substack is a big plus.

Thanks for following me here. I look forward to letting you know when I have a new book or short story out. I also hope to see you on Substack. Remember, you don’t have to pay or even create an account to read the free posts. Just find me here. 🙂

Thanks again for following along.

AI and inflation be damned, there are plenty more stories on the way!

Chris

I mentioned the videos we made in an earlier post. I had to be creative to encourage and support English language learning in Greenland, and at the top of the world especially so. So we plotted stories, wrote the scripts, and then filmed them. It was a lot of fun, and after I stayed up all night editing the video – hard to sleep with 24 hour sunlight – we could watch the videos the next day.

Meanwhile, the Danish navy was “just checking in” and doing their whole sovereignty thing. 😉

Chris