Á miðvikudaginn sagði ég: „Það væri nú gott fyrir gróðurinn ef það færi að rigna.“ Þannig að þetta veður er mér að kenna. Afsakið.

Some very cool #bookmail at work today!! Thank you to Macmillan Publishers and Nightfire Books ! I’ve been interested in this one Hildur Knútsdóttir !!

It is 6 degrees celsius today but the sun is shining so obviously I saw a man lying naked in his garden sunbathing. This is the Reykjavík way 🙏

I got arcs!

Thank you Lee-Anne! Sadly UK rights have not been sold so I don't know if it will ever make it's way over there (and incidentally, that thing with English language territories was the most 🤯 I learned about the publishing industry – you know, it being the same language and all).

I think the dead kid with the giant legs is my favorite.

Díses kræst, gaurar. Ég trúi því ekki að þið viljið í alvöru taka þessa umræðu aftur! Konur hafa metnað, konur hafa peningaáhyggjur, konur vilja sjá fyrir fjölskyldunni sinni, konur vilja ekki bara dúlla sér. Konur eru nefnilega líka manneskjur!

International book day. In the most important manuscript, the primal source of norse mythology has a blank page with the words: “Hér vantar mikið í” or “A lot is missing here” 😭

Don't mess with me. My secret power is getting TV shows cancelled. On any provider. All I have to say is, 'Gee, that's good writing. I like this series. ' And Pop! It's cancelled.

The rare crossover between work & other work… But the short version is: rich banks & countries are putting out a lot of great publicity about their climate policies while creating more debt for countries who need money to deal with increasingly severe storms, fire, drought (🧵)

Turns out my YA-novel Hrím is also nominated for the Nordic Council Literary Prize! Talk about a crazy couple of days 😅 // Svo er Hrím bara tilnefnd til Barnabókaverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs líka! Takk fyrir mig! 🙌

Hrím var tilnefnd til Barnabókaverðlauna Reykjavíkur áðan! // My latest YA-novel, Hrím (which means Rime in English) was just nominated for the Reykjavík Children’s Literary Award!

This book is excellent and you should all read it!

The Night Guest is up on NetGalley. I am so grateful for all the readers who take the time to review and I love seeing the different reactions to the book.

But they make one thing very clear: There is no way to please everyone and I actually find that very freeing.

Er einhver búinn að gera úttekt á því hvort forsetaframbjóðendur eigi gæludýr og ef já, hvernig dýr? Mér finnst að við sem þjóð þurfum að gera upp við okkur hvort við viljum aftur hund á Bessastaði, eða viljum við kannski kött, eða hamstur?

This otter teaching a human how to pet it gets me every time

'But there is something so unfair about loving cats and being relegated to do so from a distance.'

Check out an excerpt from Hildur Knútsdóttir’s Icelandic horror The Night Guest now!

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Why does Iceland get left out of the super continent? This is like a textbook definition of bullying. Thanks, geology.