gift ideas
Okay, time to round up those bookstore gift certificates and head out for some wonderful after-Christmas sales. And I've got just the idea! :) This is my first and probably last shameless promotion of a good friend...
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Before my first trip to Sweden several years ago, I was introduced, through a mutual friend via email, to a very nice man ... Johan Theorin. We struck up a friendship, and he eventually offered to show me around his city of Göteborg. We met in the summer of that year, and he was nicer in person than he was over email.
Working at a small publisher doing translations, and the like, he told me of a book he was working on that would hopefully one day be published. I was excited to find, in 2006, that his book was complete and being published locally in Sweden. In July of that year I took my family over there for a holiday to meet my Swedish friend and his family. His mother and father lived on the opposite coast on the island of Öland, and were nice enough to accept the four of us to visit them after I conducted my business in Göteborg.
We spent 2-3 days with his parents showing us all over the island. They became good friends and are amazingly generous people.
And here we are at the end of 2008, and again I am excited to find Johan's book is now translated in who-knows-how-many languages, and is available for the first time through a North American distributor with a fresh new translation.
Echoes From the Dead, not nearly as morbid as it may sound, is now available for you to go out and buy about 30 copies each. *lol* It is an honestly great first attempt at fiction, and he has already completed his second book. I'm so very proud of my friend, Johan, and wish him success.
Congratulation, Mr. Theorin...
gift ideas
Okay, time to round up those bookstore gift certificates and head out for some wonderful after-Christmas sales. And I've got just the idea! :) This is my first and probably last shameless promotion of a good friend...
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Before my first trip to Sweden several years ago, I was introduced, through a mutual friend via email, to a very nice man ... Johan Theorin. We struck up a friendship, and he eventually offered to show me around his city of Göteborg. We met in the summer of that year, and he was nicer in person than he was over email.
Working at a small publisher doing translations, and the like, he told me of a book he was working on that would hopefully one day be published. I was excited to find, in 2006, that his book was complete and being published locally in Sweden. In July of that year I took my family over there for a holiday to meet my Swedish friend and his family. His mother and father lived on the opposite coast on the island of Öland, and were nice enough to accept the four of us to visit them after I conducted my business in Göteborg.
We spent 2-3 days with his parents showing us all over the island. They became good friends and are amazingly generous people.
And here we are at the end of 2008, and again I am excited to find Johan's book is now translated in who-knows-how-many languages, and is available for the first time through a North American distributor with a fresh new translation.
Echoes From the Dead, not nearly as morbid as it may sound, is now available for you to go out and buy about 30 copies each. *lol* It is an honestly great first attempt at fiction, and he has already completed his second book. I'm so very proud of my friend, Johan, and wish him success.
Congratulation, Mr. Theorin...