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Christoffer Petersen

The Baffin Bay Stomp

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I’ve been very fortunate to have the support of a number of readers who wanted more stories, so much so when the opportunity came to get “into” the stories, they made it happen. The Baffin Bay Stomp is one of those stories.

This short story features Luui, and a brave new character by the name of Graham Williams. In a nutshell, there is a death aboard a cruise ship visiting Qaanaaq, and Luui being Luui is aboard (naturally) and lends a hand (typically) to the local police investigation. Graham is collateral damage. 🙂

The Baffin Bay Stomp defies credulity, of course, but was a lot of fun to write.

Chris

 

Upcoming releases – February 2022

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I’m still putting things together for January, and hope to put out a couple of short stories on the fly. However, two books are scheduled for release in February, including:

The American Artisan (novella)

When ghosts from an old case haunt an American artist as he walks the streets of Nuuk, Constable David Maratse is recalled to Greenland’s capital to investigate.

The American Artisan is the twenty-third in a series of novellas to feature Constable David Maratse in Greenland.

This is a fun one as one of the main characters is named after a backer of a recent Kickstarter campaign. The tone, however, isn’t fun, as that character is in peril, of course.

The Crocodile Beat* (novel)

In Australia’s vast and desolate Northern Territory, Constable Petra ‘Piitalaat’ Jensen’s most southerly missing persons case might just be her last.

Forced to take some well-earned leave, Petra searches for solace in the Australian Outback, only to find herself caught up in the search for a missing police sergeant.

The Crocodile Beat is the thirteenth in the Greenland Missing Persons series of novellas and novels normally set in the harsh, unpredictable Arctic, rich in tradition, myth and culture.

Both books will be posted to Amazon on the day of release, but may take up to a day to be visible.

However, The Crocodile Beat will be available in more stores as I try something new. It won’t be available in Kindle Unlimited, but it will be available for streaming in Kobo Plus. I’m trying new things in 2022 in the hope to gain more exposure.

We’ll see what happens.

Chris

*Edit (February 5, 2022): The Crocodile Beat will be a stand-alone novel. Sigh. 🙂

Denmark!

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Covid did a lot of things to a lot of people, all around the world. But perhaps one of the better things it did was encourage people to look around them, and find adventures on the doorstep.

This is Denmark.

Plenty of adventures to be had here!

Chris

Biting into the Wild – a poem

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Biting into the Wild

© Christoffer Petersen, 2021

We crowned the invisible
Called it novel and we wept
When the markets crashed
Worse than collapsing houses
Which everyone agreed
Was impossible, yet,
Like our new monarch
Waiting in the wings
As we stack our bets
Cement our foundations
Biting into the wild
Wholly unprepared
For when the wild
Bites back.

Work in Progress

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I found this photo of my desk. The photo is a few years old. The computer is now growling – a lot! And the Star Wars paraphernalia is even more dusty now than it was then. But otherwise, it’s exactly as it was.

Two screens is essential for editing! I don’t know how I ever managed without a second screen. The speakers are hidden, but when doing covers and stuff I have all kinds of music blasting out – although, I do turn it down when the Blue Tits are nesting in the vent above my desk. The music is varied, but when listening to the radio I’ve discovered that there’s no better DJ than Will Young on Radio 2. 🙂

Yep, there’s a raven claw in the ziploc bag hanging from the drawer – for luck, of course. But the really fun stuff is the two yellow smileys underneath the big screen. They’ve got suckers for feet and springs beneath the heads. I don’t know why, but making them jump just makes me giggle. Every time!

There’s definitely a screw loose somewhere.

And it’s not the desk!

Have a great Saturday.

Chris

The Mammoth book of Maratse stories!

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This week has been, and continues to be, about admin. I’ve got a lot of books. Checking the links, thinking about covers – really want to redo a handful of them, updating the website. Well, I could use six months on that alone!

I haven’t got six months.

Not if I want to write, too.

So I’m doing some housekeeping and searching for loose ends and lost books. I found this whopper lurking on my Payhip store. So, if you’re looking for almost all of Maratse’s novellas in one massive eBook, this is it.

Maratse: The Greenland Stories eBook collects the first 20 novellas. They have all been previously published, and they also exist in 5 separate omnibus editions. But I stuffed them all into one big one! That’s a lot of Greenland stories. 🙂

If you’re interested in this eBook, referring a friend at checkout gives a 25% discount.

Right, on to the next job on the list!

Chris