Christoffer Petersen

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Yule at Aurora Station – 2nd Advent, Part 2

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It’s ready! The second installment of Yule at Aurora Station is live on Payhip!

Before I tease a little about the story, let me just add that I am selling the stories on Payhip first to try out a range of possibilities I don’t have when selling on other platforms.

For example, you can get 25% off your purchase if you share the sale on social media.

Also, and even more exciting from my point of view, I can add bonus (digital) material to the sale. So, with Yule at Aurora Station, for example, I am adding a JPEG download of the artwork (6000×3000) suitable for desktop wallpaper.

I can’t do this on other platforms. So while I realise that for some readers who often buy my books on other platforms (thank you!) it might be a bit irritating to buy from a new platform, I’m hoping that the discounts and the bonus material will make up for that.

I will be releasing the bundled Yule at Aurora Station in one volume, about 100+ pages, later in December for $2.99. But if you want to read along each advent, and grab the bonus material, then I hope you might be tempted with Payhip.

But. back to the story!

Luui, as you might have guessed, is in trouble.

No spoilers, but if you grabbed the free copy of Part 1 (now with additional bonus material which you can grab, even if you already downloaded it) you’ll know Luui is protecting the last known female polar bear in the Arctic, together with the help of her tiny friends Kalaagi and his sister, Naaluk, and the big, friendly helper spirit Âmo.

Yes, it’s that kind of story!

But hey, it’s a Christmas story.

That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking with it!

Anyway, polar bears, a container cabin, resupply via parachute, and a nefarious big corporation hunting for the bear … or Luui … I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, and here’s the kicker, you’ll have to read it to find out. 🙂 But like any Christmas story, it will be resolved by Christmas Eve!

I’ll leave you with the promise of the next installment “dropping” on the third Advent Sunday this Christmas: December 12. You can always check the Yule at Aurora Station page on this website for updates.

Merry Christmas! (Kind of early, but hey…)

Chris

Yule at Aurora Station – 1st Advent, Part 1

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Things always take longer than expected, and it doesn’t help when I suddenly want to experiment with a new cover idea.

And see, I’m waffling already, when I what I should be doing is introducing you to a new story set on the first Advent Sunday of Christmas now available to download.

I explain more about the story on the page for Yule at Aurora Station, but I just thought I’d talk around it here.

As I’ve mentioned before, December in Greenland is incredibly dark, i.e. no sun. So celebrating Advent, especially if it fell in November, was an opportunity to get the decorations up fast to beat back the winter dark. This really worked in Uummannaq, with a red or green paper star lit with a light bulb in the window of nearly every house in that tiny town on a remote island in the Arctic. The snow reflected the Christmas colours and the Northern Lights blazed in the sky.

Romantic?

You betcha!

So, with that in mind, you might better understand my love of Christmas and the reason why I am often compelled to write a Christmas story.

Yule at Aurora Station is a Christmas story in four parts, one for each Sunday this Christmas.

It’s a little different than my usual crime novels and novellas, and with that in mind I’m giving away the first part for free via a link to my payhip store. (Please note, you will be asked for an email address to register the “sale”, but you are not being added to a mailing list.)

Readers of my Greenland Missing Persons series will be familiar with a certain five-year-old, and she’s back, but she’s all grown up. Luui Angakkuarneq stars in this cute, fantastical story about a pregnant polar bear – the last polar bear in a rapidly diminishing Arctic.

Die-hard crime readers have bailed at this point, and I don’t blame you. 🙂

But if you want to read something a little different this Christmas, then each short instalment of Yule at Aurora Station might be just what you need. It’s packed with Arctic goodness, goons, and mythical creatures. And a little magic, of course.

As I said, Part 1 is free, so you can try before you buy. Each part thereafter will be $0.99 and bundled for $2.99 later in December. Yule at Aurora Station is about 100 pages long in total. I will release the parts via links in a blog post and on the book page on this website.

Here’s a quick overview:

  1. Sunday November 28 Yule at Aurora Station – Part 1 (FREE)
  2. Sunday December 5 Yule at Aurora Station – Part 2
  3. Sunday December 12 Yule at Aurora Station – Part 3
  4. Sunday December 19 Yule at Aurora Station – Part 4

I hope you enjoy Part 1 as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Have a great Sunday! Oh, and apologies to readers from Australia, as I’m pretty sure it’s Monday already.

Yeah, I couldn’t wait until Sunday

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I planned to wait until this Sunday, but decided to tease the release today. And I say tease as there’s not much I want to say at the moment, and certainly no spoilers. But, for the sake of saying something, I should add that I’m working on an Advent story to be released each Advent Sunday this Christmas.

This isn’t the first time I’ve written a Christmas story. I’ve currently got two Advent Calendar stories with a chapter for each day of the 24 days of the Greenlandic and Scandinavian Christmas period.

The existing series is called Dark Advent, and it starts with The Calendar Man.

The Calendar Man and Invisible Touch are the calendar novels, while Twelfth Night and North Star Bay are add-ons, continuing a thread started in each of the calendar stories.

So, as you can see, I try and release something each Christmas.

This Christmas is different, as I bumped up the release date for the Greenland Missing Persons #12 The Blister at the End of the World. It’s coming out this Christmas, but it’s not a Christmas story.

Yule at Aurora Station, however, is totally a Christmas story.

And now, to the teasing…

Just like I did with The Calendar Man, this story is set a little into the future where we find a popular character “all grown up”.

Yep, Luui is in this one!

Without giving too much of the story away, let me give you an idea of the way it will work.

I’m going to release each part of the story on each Advent Sunday in 2021 as per the following dates:

  • Sunday November 28, 1st Advent, part 1/4 of Yule at Aurora Station – FREE
  • Sunday December 5, 2nd Advent, part 2/4 of Yule at Aurora Station – $0.99
  • Sunday December 12, 3rd Advent, part 3/4 of Yule at Aurora Station – $0.99
  • Sunday December 19, 4th Advent, part 4/4 of Yule at Aurora Station – $0.99

I’m going to release them on my payhip store and then as a collected work for $2.99 on Amazon after Christmas Day.

Part 1 will be FREE, so you can try it and see if it’s something for you, and then if it is, you can choose to buy each part as it is released on the following three Advent Sundays this Christmas, or wait for the collected work. Once all the parts are collected as one, they will be about the length of one of my novellas, and priced accordingly.

I’ll tease a bit more about the plot later, but hey, it’s a Luui story, there will be spirits, probably monsters, and there will be mayhem. But she’s in her twenties, so it’s Luui but older, more mellow, believe it or not.

If that’s enough to give you a Petra frown, then you’re not alone. 🙂

More later!

Chris