Darkdaughter Agency Catalogue 2012

mörkersdottir förlag

darkdaughter agency

Catalogue 2012

darkdaughter agency 2012


about darkdaughter agency

Frida rosesund

Darkdaughter Agency is a part of Mörkersdottir förlag (Darkdaughter Pub-lisher) and is run by me, Frida Rosesund. I am an author, and publisher and I am representing seven interesting Swedish authors, in genres such as dark romance, fantasy, horror, magic realism and young adult.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you want a meeting, I’m visiting the book fairs in London, Gothenburg and Frankfurt this year.

[email protected]

deranged

Young men and children disappear in the northern Swedish woods, a man is trapped by his wife in the cellar, a marriage is about to end and a girl re-turns, a girl with an adult mind and revenge in her chest.

(Horror/thriller, adult)

“‘Förvriden’ is exciting, scary and just wonderful!”

Eva Boström, Boktokig

“It’s hard not to compare with John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novels”

Mikael Huss, BTJ (Library service)

“‘Förvriden’ is driven by a genuine suggestive mood, where the fact that the different voices tell the story is an important ingredient.”

Helena, Fiktiviteter

“‘Förvriden’ is a an interesting horrornovel that manages to inherit the horror genre well and at the same time bring it new, interesting angles.” Bokstävlarnadarkdaughter agency 2012


Frida arwen rosesund

“I can’t say that the writing has saved me from my life chrisis, but it has changed my life. I became a writing person, who can’t stop writing, who feel that my childhood fantasy blooms again and that it is infinite. I will always write and will do so until the day I die. Four years after the chrisis, I’m starting to find myself and to learn to see to my own best and not adjust to get popular. I have found the road back to the person I once were: the curious little girl who loved mysteries and the girl with the endless imagination.

halfblood

“‘Halvblod’ really surprised me. I had a feeling that it would be good, but not this good. There have been lots of vampire literature the past years and to create something that feels fresh and new cannot be easy, however, Sofie has really managed to do that! It feels like this book is a beginning of some-thing really, really big.”

Beas bokhylla

“What really lifts the story is Aveline’s moral dilemmas. How much of her human part must she give up in order to survive?”

Catayha


Aveline, 22 years old, has a heart fragile as glass. The sedentary lifehas made her a loner who rather hangs out with the characters in

her books than with real friends. But after overhearing a conversa-tion between her parents, a conversation not meant for her ears, her whole life changes. Suddenly she’s on the run with the only person

who knows who and what she really is. But can she trust Billy? Or is she in greater danger with than

without him?

“Halfblood” is the first part of a modern vampire triology, that takes you on a breathtaking journey between good and evil.

But what is really what?

(Urban fantasy, Age group 14-25 y)

The girl who couldn’t love was wrongBut what is love?To loveOr to be loved...

Billy has left Aveline to ask for her mercy and for the blood that can save her life. At the same time he has escaped from the only thing she is prepared to fight for, and left her with Alexander, who’s changing because of her betrayal. Just as Aveline thinks it can get more worse, Billy’s sister and V arrive to the valley. With them is Coraline, who turns out to be Aveline’s worst night-mare.

Who is the man she thinks she loves and what has he once been? And is the love enough to keep on loving?

WINGS OF GLASS


“At one time my father called me ‘Halfblood’. Not many people can see where I come from, but most of them can tell that there is something with me that isn’t entirely swedish. It is something in the blood, something you cannot see. And there, my fever started. I started to write like I was possessed, and the longing and need to write was back.”

Sofie Trinh Johansson


During the major part of her life, Kim has lived in Stockholm, in the middle of the shining lights and the eternal sounds. But after her 25th birthday, she decides to move back to her fam-ily’s cottage in the Norlandic woods.While there, she tries to build up her life again, far away from the old friends and the bad choices, but the past is starting to hunt her. Herfather’s suggested suicide turns out to be mysterious, especially when she hears about the paranoid life he lived right before his death.And when her father’s grave inexplica-bly gets desecrated, she starts question-ing what really happened eleven years earlier in the ruined cottage up in the woods. Her father’s tales about the old gnomes, guardians of cottages of the past, appear more credible for every second that she lives in the dark forest.

(Horror, Crossover litterature 17-27y)


SHADOWGUARD

“I found a book with collected short stories and there I found a new world. Authors who showed me stories from new perspec-tives, who showed me that I wasn’t so odd that I thought I was.

The nightmares got heavier, but I started to use them and started to write myself. It gave me something constructive to do with the long

nights where I had just waited for the sleep to come.

I still see shadow figures around my bed and wake up screaming in the mornings, but at the same time, I’m never so happy as when I

sit all by myself in the middle of the night, writing my stories.”

Jonas Lejon


All was dark and the only thing that existed was the total silence.Suddenly, and without so much as a single whisper, three circular openings appeared in the emptiness. On a misty meadow, a lonely man was sitting on a broken chair. His fate

had a lot of souls on its conscience.

In the middle of the circle-shapedhole, between emptiness and all thoughts of all living things, a world of

dreams appeared. But the girl by the mill did not dream.

A young man lay in his bed and dreamt in a way most people can’t. Several hundred miles away, another man dreamt in exactly the same unusual way. Next day, both of

them would travel, and they would end up at the girl’s mill wheel and start a chain of events whose destination would become crucial for an eternal amount of lives.

(Fantasy/science fiction, crossover litterature, 17-27 y)


At the end of the circle - the road to umbria


Jan-Erik Ullström

“When I was a child, I used to go out in the forest and sat under a tree. The more the wind blew, the better. I closed my eyes. Disap-

peared. I created worlds where I wasn’t bullied. Created places where my voice could be heard. Spheres where my opinions and

thoughts had enough space to give me energy. My world. My rules. In school or home, when dinner was served that I didn’t like, it was

simple for me. At the end I didn’t have to close my eyes to make it work. I pretended. Let my imagination take over.

Emma Lundqvist

There are those who never had their stories told. For year after year, these supporting char-acters have been biding their time in the book’s margins, impatiently waiting. Others have silently been forced to watch how their stories have been distorted beyond recognition.

Now, the time has come. It is time to tell all of these forgotten tales, as they really were. Time to figure out who is evil and who is good, and if the happy endings really exists.

Here you’ll find Bashful’s story about Snow-white, as he experienced it, and the Little mer-maids sister have their say. The witch who met Hansel and Gretel tells her version of what hap-pened in the gingerbreadhouse and the princess herself tells us about the time when she was trapped in the dragon’s cave.

Every destiny is a fairytale, but too many were never told. Not until now.

Here, in The book of the other tales.

(Fantasy, Age group 13-19 y)

The book of theother tales


After a tragic event, too difficult for Karima to re-cover from, she flees from her foster parents and her duties as the future Fire guardian.Her selfchosen isolation lasts for three years; until she is forced to break it to avert the danger that threathens the elemantary spirits, whom she ischosen to help, in her role as a Guardian.

Karima reluctantly awakes the magic powers she has denied and together with the safe Od Earth Guardian, the hard to reach Simel Water Guardian and the fascinating Nilor Air Guardian, she sets out on an uncertain journey, trying to rescue the spirits of the four elements. It turns out to be a journey that will change Karima’s life in more ways than she could imagine and finally bring an answer to the riddles of her past.

The story about the Guardians of the elements is addressed to them who long for fantastic literature, that replaces endless struggles with excitement andromance.

(Romantic Fantasy, Age group 9-13 y)

the guardians of the elements

“I was sitting alone in a small cottage in the middle of the forest to write the sequel of ‘Guardians of the elements’. Guillermo knocked on the door and stepped inside, while he demanded me to write down the fairytales that he dictated. And I wrote. I wrote and wrote. Between the fairytales, the dwarf told me about his own world. The world of the fairytales, where time follows other rules and surprisingly few seem happy. Was he crazy? Or was he really ‘Bashful’ from the Snowwhite fairytale? I had no idea. But eventually, when the book emerged, I learned who Guillermo was and why he had come to me. I learned the continuing of his and Snowwhite’s tale. And I learned that I, I am a fairytale authoress.”

Emma Lundqvist

Thriller, adult.

soulfire

Mora, year 1669. The witch hysteria is on the rise and haunts the Swedish woodlands. Priests and terrified common people call for actions and the king summons the first Witchcraft Commission with Lorentz Creutz in the lead. In late August it announces the first death sentences. Twenty three people are beheaded and burned at the tearing fires by the river near Mora church.

By the smoldering ashes a little girl is mourning her executed mother while the Commission is in the process of leaving Mora. The girl cannot wish for anythingelse than that Baron Creutz will burn in hell for eternal time for what hehas done.

A couple of years later, the same Creutz is appointed Admiral of the Swedish fleet and boards the mighty ship Kronan, one of the most powerful warships of its time, to look for and de-stroy the Danish navy. But instead of fame and honor it ends in an inferno of fire and death in a battle outside the coast of Öland. Admiral Lorentz Creutz floats ashore at the little village Hulterstad and is found by the village priest. But as Creutz enter the island so does the darkness. A darkness filled with plundering enemies and tearing fires. But still, maybe it is just the beginning of something worse. Something that will persist and rise into the days of our time.Maybe the girl had her wish come true about Creutz, but little did she know how her burning hatred would give echoes into the future.

Soulfire, a book about loneliness and alienation, a book about blind faith and the darkness that exists within as all.

“Maths connects the past with the present and in a skillful way he creates a scary Hitch-cock-like mood.”

DAST-magazine


“Maybe it is my scientific background that makes it so tempting to play with alternative solutions and look for mysterious connections? Some-

times they get quite creepy or what do you think of this; my novel takes off at the first big witchcraft trial in the medieval Sweden. A few months after the novel was finished I found out that there was a little

boy who played a significant role in the first documented witch accusa-tion. A boy named Mats Nilsson. Just like me. Could it be nothing else

but a sign?

Maths Nilsson


The mental breakdown of Doctor Mikael Halperson reveals a memory, a terrible secret. The psycho therapist, Hans Ljung, engages in Mikael’s problem, examining the voice that speaks through Mikael at night.

Johannes, the boy who has been trapped within Mikaels subconscious for many years, is finally free to search for the girl he once lost in a dark and evil fantasy world. With a sword, Bloodthorne and his friend Bigmouth, he sets out on a dangerous journey to find the girl, Anna.

But who is Anna and what does she repre-sent?

(Fantasy/Magic realism, Age group 17-27)

mirrorsong


“The subconsious takes different forms, in my case it often happens that I talk, laugh and curse in my

sleep. What would happen if you re-corded the sounds and that it some-how got a meaning? A message that

suggested something, a riddle?”

Steven Trolin


contact

Darkdaughter AgencyTunavägen 219784 61 BorlängeSweden+46-70-616 99 [email protected]

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