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Posted: 3/5/2010 1:52 PM
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Walker_Boh
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Hello TASVideos! I'm not sure how much I've talked about it here, maybe not much at all. Anyway, I love writing and one of my dreams in life is to publish a book. So about 9 years ago I started out writing one. It's been a long road, but 2 days ago (wednesday 3/3) it finally got completely finished and published! If anyone should be interested in taking a look it's available here: http://booksondemand.e-butik.se/?artnr=1797 I have published my book myself using a company called Books-on-demand specialized on exactly this. The price, should anyone be interested, might seem high. But it's almost the least that the company could take. They have print costs and so on. Anyway, I'm very happy about this and thought I should share it :) /Walker (Hans)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 2:37 PM
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Cool! The reason I loathe writing papers (books) is because it is so hard to find the right words/phrasing for each sentence... it is time consuming! :P My hat is off to you. What is the book about? Is it completely in (Finnish?)Swedish? I call for an overview/outline! (I couldn't see your location in the post message screen)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 2:46 PM
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Ah, the language is swedish (whole book) and it's a fantasy book. I love fantasy! Two thiefs, Tar and Tife, meet by accident because they got the same mission from a mysteroius old man called Valgone. Now they are drawn into a chain of events in search for the magical elemental stones, which in wrong hands can destroy the world. Meanwhile a dangerous moevement called "Skuggorden" (the Shadow order) is killing innocent people in the country Dravanu. The king there is unable to do anything because of a tragic accident. His servant Chratunga is instead ruling the country and he does anything in order to stop the Shadow order. The tracks of them seems to lead to the neighboring country Venlora. But what's Chratungas real motives? That's the basic outline of the story :)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 2:49 PM
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Sounds nifty :P
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Posted: 3/5/2010 2:53 PM
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They don't ship outside of Sweden? :(
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Posted: 3/5/2010 4:28 PM
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Posted: 3/5/2010 4:28 PM
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I'm a fan of fantasy too, but not knowing Swedish, I'll have to pass. Sorry.
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Posted: 3/5/2010 4:57 PM
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Congratulations on your accomplishment! Unfortunately, I cannot read Swedish and so it looks like I'll have to wait 9 years for the English translation before I can take a look ;-)
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Posted: 3/5/2010 10:37 PM
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It is a great accomplishment, congrats! Have you searched for any e-book publication solutions?
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Posted: 3/5/2010 11:43 PM
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Thanks for all the kind words! I'm not sure I'm interested in e-book publication just yet. But it's certainly something to think about! Good idea indeed. And about shipping outside sweden I have no idea unfortunately. If the site says no I guess they don't. Crap :)
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Posted: 3/31/2010 8:57 AM
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Bump-ish! Yesterday I published the prologue and the first three chapters of my book online to try to get people interested in it. It's available here (still in swedish though) for those who might be interested: http://www.kapitel1.se/hans-olsson/sokandet-efter-elementstenarna And if you want to and like it you can rate it, which will also increase my chances of more people reading this small part of the book :)
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Posted: 4/2/2010 11:15 PM
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Congrats, although I cannot read swedish also. Is it published via ebook also out of curiosity? (might be worth doing if nearly all your profit goes to the publishing cost).
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Posted: 4/3/2010 1:08 PM
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I'll make sure to read the first three chapters on that webpage. I really need to pick something up to read, and even though fantasy isn't really my first choice it's probably because I've never taken the time to read a fantasy book. I'll let you know what I think. Also, congratulations on finishing writing a whole book, it's a far greater creative accomplishment than I could ever imagine myself doing. I'll have to give you credit for that.
Posted: 4/3/2010 3:47 PM
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Posted: 4/3/2010 4:18 PM
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Congratulations, man! I only wish I could read it, but because of the language barrier... =( It's also my hope to get published one day too, but as a poet. Then we can be in the published club together! I've done a few self-publications though. I hope it goes well for you!
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Posted: 4/7/2010 6:17 AM
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Thanks for all the kind words again!
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Congrats, although I cannot read swedish also. Is it published via ebook also out of curiosity? (might be worth doing if nearly all your profit goes to the publishing cost).
I'm still not sure I want to publish it completely on the web yet. Personally I like the feeling of a book in my hands. Reading a text on a screen can be great, sure, but a book is always a book :) I probably will concider it in the future though, depending on how it goes with this one. Right now I'm trying to post it at different forums so people knows it exists. And yes, I still need to sell loads of them to make up for the publishing cost that I've already paid, but to me it's worth it anyway. Guess we'll see where it ends up.
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Posted: 5/14/2010 9:27 PM
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Hello again! I have just recently created my own web site for me and my writing. There I've included a few "taste" chapters from my book, and also two short stories that I've won first and third price in 2008's and 2009's competition for "Fantasyklubbens novelltävling" (fantasy book club in Sweden) respectively. It also has a forum for those who want to hang out there. For those interested the adress for this awesome site is: www.hansolsson.net The only downside to this is that it's entirely in swedish :) Right now I'm trying out facebook ads. I really don't like commercial in general, but those ads are actually kinda harmless. If you don't like them, just ignore them. And so far I've got lots of views and a few clicks, which means a few people has actually looked at my book. I think that's the hardest part, to get people to know about a new fantasy book in swedish. Oh well, hopefully it'll generate some kind of interest at least.
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Posted: 5/14/2010 9:50 PM
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http://tinyurl.com/walkerbohsiteenglish Maybe this might help some people. It's readable to me!
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Posted: 5/14/2010 10:35 PM
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That's freaking awesome! Not all of the stuff is correctly translated, but most is! And enough to make sense at least! Thank you very much NitroGenesis! Very awesome indeed! That means more people can read my stuff, granted you want to of course :) The short story "Game box" is meant to be "Musical box" however. Anyway, big thank you!
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Posted: 5/14/2010 11:26 PM
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Just took the time to read the free prologue and the first 3 chapters that you have up. I have to say that I am very impressed. When I get my next pay-check I am ordering the whole book. Do I get it for free if I find a spelling error ? :P
Posted: 5/14/2010 11:37 PM
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Hehe, I'm afraid not. But I'm very interested in knowing what the errors are! So if you want to report them I would be very grateful (I can send BoD a mail and ask them to correct any errors that might pop up)! I've worked hard to proof read and correct spelling errors/typos, but if there are any left... :) Also, as I posted on my forum, if more free chapters would be of interest for reading, I might put them up there :) I'm very open to suggestions. Thank you very much for the positive feedback though Warepire!
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Posted: 6/6/2010 4:57 PM
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Just done reading the entire book and it's great, many loose ends though so I cannot wait for the second book. Someone should translate this book to English so that the majority of the world can read it. A big thumbs up to Walker Boh!
Posted: 12/9/2010 9:10 PM
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Hello again TASvideos! I can now proudly announce that my second book is done and published! It's a collection of short stories, 11 of them to be exact. The title of this book is "Vad är din hemlighet?" which translated to english means "What is your secret?" The short stories are of various length and content, and only two of them being fantasy ones. So it's very fun and exciting to write something different besides my fantasy serie! A few examples of short stories is "Fungor Vitae", in where a woman wakes up at a hospital without being able to speak and with no memory. But she soon realize that something is very wrong. And another is the short story with the same title as the book, "Vad är din hemlighet?" where a man becomes obsessed with finding a good secret. The "problem" though, is that it's only in swedish again. I'm still very happy that it's done and completed :) If you want to have a look it's available at for example Books on Demands site, which is also the print company I used: http://booksondemand.e-butik.se/show_product.asp?artnr=2110 I haven't had time to add it to my homepage yet, in case someone looks there every now and then ( www.hansolsson.net ). But I will as soon as possible. Well, thanks for taking the time to look into it this far at least!
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Posted: 2/7/2011 8:17 PM
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Hello again! Last year I entered a short story contest held by Blizzard. I've now published my entry on my site, so for those of you who wants to read it you can find it here: http://www.hansolsson.net/Familiar-surroundings-Hans-Olsson.pdf And this one is in english! Critiscism is always welcome, of any kind :)
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Posted: 12/1/2011 12:24 PM
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Hello Tasvideos! For you who are interested (and swedish, I guess) I can now proudly present my latest book: Bronstornet Garba. It's the second book in my fantasy serie "Elementstenarna", (which translates to "The elemental stones"). The story continues directly after the first book in the series. The story for this one is (translated from the back of the cover): "The two thieves Tar and Tife are back in the city of Argovona after having helped Valgone find three elemental stones. Tar is tormented by a mysterious feeling. It burns him from within and threatens to destroy him. The only solution seems to be to find the mysterious healers in the Dkroi desert. But do they exist at all and do they have the answer? After the battle in Vargpasset, the venloric general Produs rides towards Collcott. His mission is to get king Stogack to sign a peace contract between the two contries. But problems arrise immediately when king Stogack is very ill, while at the same time something dangerous approaches from the west. Valgone has set his mind on destroying the threat from the evil Garland. To achieve this he needs help from an old friend in Golyar. Can they stop Garland and protect the remaining elemental stones from his clutches?" Well, I still write in swedish, so unfortunately I guess most of you guys can't read my book, even if you wanted to. But well, its done none-the-less! :) If you want to check it out one can order it online, for example from the publishers site: http://booksondemand.e-butik.se/fantasy-sci-fi/elementstenarna-del-2-bronstornet-garba Also, my first book is available online for free, for those who wants to check that out: http://www.hansolsson.net/Sokandet-efter-elementstenarna-Hans-Olsson.pdf I also have a facebook page for me as an author, but pm me about that one if you are interested. Thanks for your time, and much pleasure if you read it!
/Walker Boh
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