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Did you know? I’m a monthly supporter of WWF Finland and Ecologi and a member of theFinnish Association for Nature Conservation.

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I’m loving keeping Lumi’s forest diary ❄️✨ at the moment I’m dreaming of offering forest diary workshops to schools. Do any of my fellow author friends know if it would be technically possible to take a class to a nearby park or for

First book review in a long time! I finally took the time to read (listen to!) @hannahgold_author’s The Lone Husky. I listened to it while skiing in Lapland, which was the perfect setting. ❄️ I hadn’t allowed myself to read it before my b

Should this be my author photo? The one that’s printed inside the dust cover of my book? This is a real, not photoshopped photo! I have professional studio photos of course, but this would communicate so much about the book 🩵 My mum and I went

Another appreciation post for the forest diary @seriha_handcrafted made me. In my book, my protagonist Lumi keeps a forest diary where she draws and writes everything she sees and experiences in nature. That’s something I used to do when I was

My reindeer YouTube video is now up! 😍❄️🦌 It was a day I will never forget. ❤️ And I learned such incredible facts about reindeer and reindeer husbandry. Which one surprised you most?
#reindeer #laplandsafaris #saariselkä #lapland

My first wintry Lapland video is up on YouTube! ✨ In it, I talk a lot about the setting of my book and do many of the same activities Lumi does: I climb a fell, go ice swimming, journal by the fire, and our hotel even served reindeer sausages, fish a

Preorder news! Lumi and the Wolf is currently 25% off to pre-order at Waterstones! Enter FEB26 at checkout to receive the discount.

Link to the @waterstones website on my story and on my homepage!

It is so exciting to be able to share thi

#lumisforestdiary entry about yesterday’s reindeer experience! 😍🦌 I’m keeping the Forest Diary as Lumi does in my book, and now that I’m Lapland it’s especially perfect, since that’s where Lumi’s adventure takes

This is the setting of my book! 📖 Mum and I are in Saariselkä in Finnish Lapland for a few days of cross-country skiing and winter adventures. We’ve already climbed a fell and been snowshoeing through the Urho Kekkonen National Park at ni

My view right now!!! 😍✨❄️ Lumi describes these trees as stacks of marshmallows and popcorn with whipped cream on top. Would you agree with that description? #lumiandthewolf

Querying agents, submitting to publishers, not getting picked up… it was such a rollercoaster! 🎢😳 But you already know how this story ends 😋 which means that persistence is worth it!

But can you spot the serendipitous moments? I met Corne

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