Thyra Dane

Author of Romance. Blogs about Scandinavia, Vikings and books.

The Jarl’s Challenge has been published for a little over a month now and what a month! The sales are WAY higher than I imagined and it makes me SO happy! I’m an indie author. Like all other indie authors I don’t have a huge marketing budget. This is why I’ve been so incredibly pleasantly …

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Vikings are generally seen as dirty, bloodthirsty brutes, but is that really the truth? The answer can be found in complaints from contemporaries, in Viking graves and in the modern Scandinavian languages. Imagine a Viking. What do you see in your inner eye? Do you see a dirty man with wild hair, beard all over …

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I’m fascinated by Vikings and I’m a romantic by heart. So why not combine the two and write a Viking romance? Now you can pre-order The Jarl’s Challenge! In only five days YOU can read The Jarl’s Challenge. And you can pre-order it today. Check out my first romance if you’re more into contemporary romances …

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I am SOOOO exited right now. My very first short story, Cosplay: a Scandinavian Romance, just went live for pre-order on Amazon! This story was part of the anthology Love in Bloom which was a project to raise money for breast cancer research. Now the anthology project is over and my story is live for …

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Read a romance about spring in Norway - and support breast cancer research!

It’s been a month since the anthology LOVE IN BLOOM was published and what a month! This is the first time I’ve ever published anything so I must admit there was some nailbiting going on. What if everyone hated my story, Cosplay? What if it didn’t make sense to anyone? Would people from other countries …

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