Authentic Arctic Thrillers
The trials of watching a movie in Qaanaaq when the sun has returned! Sure, we could be outside, but you can’t be outside all the time. We wanted to watch a movie. We had to prep the room before we could start.
Mustn’t complain though – not after four months of darkness!
Chris
Here’s the end of the month Patreon update. 🙂
This post is all about my Patreon page where readers can choose to subscribe, support, and follow my work.
It’s the fourth month and I am constantly adding exclusive content, with more content scheduled to “drop” on different days each month.
Curious? You can find me here, and see what I’m sharing.
And now the update of what you’ll find on Patreon at the moment*, with more on the way:
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
*And the tally of words so far, because words are my business = 50,979 plus videos, audiobooks, art, and personalised texts.
After the rather disturbing lack of hair when I scanned myself into the 3D software, I found another “scan” with decidedly more hair – albeit many, many years ago! Here’s me (on the right, of course) mum, and Jemma. It’s a good thing mum has a good grip on Jemma as she was a hair-puller!
Wait?
Is there a connection? 😉
I should add, Jemma grew out of the hair pulling!
Chris
Maratse waved. He watched her leave, then leaned over the railing to wave a minute later as Petra stepped out of the apartment building and jogged over to the patrol car. Dust pillowed away from the tyres as Constable Atii Napa accelerated out of the parking lot. Maratse turned back to the fjord, caught the shadow of a sea eagle, and stared up to watch it soar across the sun.
“Hmm,” he said, as a second eagle joined the first. Ravens croaked from the roof of the next apartment building, gathering in conspiratorial twos and threes, stalking the edges, flapping, cawing, and crowing. Maratse turned back to the eagles, content to watch them for a little while, for want of anything better to do in the city.
I’ve often said that I have experienced most (thankfully not all) that I write about in my Greenland stories. The above quote is from Warrior, and the photo above that is of a white-tailed sea eagle soaring above our apartment in Nuuk one day in April. We saw them quite often, and we often saw them in pairs.
Add the ravens from the roof of the next apartment building and, well, these things write themselves!
Chris
Out on the sea ice!
It’s official, I’ve gone nuts! But if you’d like to go nuts with me, then this is your chance! The occasion? Well, Jaws, by Peter Benchley, turns 49 this year on May 6th. Seeing as Maratse spends so much time at sea, I thought it would be fun to celebrate that with an anthology of sea stories including backers who pledge to get in on the action.
The Glacier Beat Kickstarter campaign needed a boost, so I’ve came up with a fun way of adding more content. Here’s the blurb to go with a campaign update:
I’ve updated the campaign with more stretch rewards and a funding goal, and I have added a time limited reward for backers interested in getting in on the action in a shorter story (eBook) collected in an anthology. Big image to follow, and more details on the main campaign page.
So, what does this mean? Well, simply put, I’ll write you into a sea story with Maratse – about 10 pages – for 50 DKK (about $7 USD).
I know… crazy, huh?
But so much fun!
Here’s that link again for the curious!
Chris