Amsterdam, 1942 In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, survival means three choices:Adapt. Frank keeps his head down. Silence keeps him safe, until silence turns into complicity.Resist. Elise prints posters…
Drafting ideas:
Celestina – from Anarchy to the Skies
Back in 2014, I started drafting my second novel. There were three rules to set this novel apart from my first.Nothing supernatural.It would be shorter than my debut.The story would be linear. The protagonist would be an Icelandic wannabe journalist. A man with ambitions larger than his worldview. The Spanish Civil War was a period […]
It Never Stops – The Soundtrack of a Trilogy
If the Frank & Celestina trilogy had a theme song, it would be Sketches of Spain by Nits. Not the Miles Davis piece, but the haunting Dutch song from 1983. It is quiet, elegiac, and full of echoes. It begins with the line:“The streets of Barcelona are filled with blood and rain.” That lyric became the seed for the first […]
A Trilogy – Completed
Origins: Blood and RainIn 2013, as I was finishing Under the Black Sand – my debut novel – I started thinking about what to do next. I had proven I could write and complete a novel, it felt like quite the achievement and I wanted to try it again! Apply everything I had learned, avoid […]
A Sky Without Stars – Pre-Order
A Sky Without Stars is almost here. It has been a long journey, both for the book and for the larger story. The final novel in the Frank & Celestina trilogy began at a Dutch air force base in January 2023, a month before Mont Noir was published. My son had an introduction day there, the base was […]
Announcing: A Sky Without Stars
It’s finally time. And I’m excited! A new novel is on the way, my fourth.And the third and final installment in the Frank and Celestina saga. I never intended to write a series, but after Blood and Rain, I wanted to explore the characters further. Frank was interesting, but Celestina demanded more time. Why was she […]