Category Archives: Writing

The Last Road … and some fellow forthcoming books from Pyr

Posted on March 1, 2019 by K.V. Johansen

As you might have heard, late last year the publisher of Gods of the Caravan Road, Pyr, was sold by its parent publisher, Prometheus, to another company called Start. This also meant that the distribution switched from Penguin Random House … Continue reading →

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Tallying the Books 3: The Pippin trilogy

Posted on June 21, 2018 by K.V. Johansen

I’m a fantasy writer — of course if I write picture books, they’re going to form a trilogy! Not really. But that’s how it turned out. I wrote the three ‘Pippin and Mabel’ books inspired by my dog Pippin, who … Continue reading →

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Tallying the Books 2: The Serpent Bride

Posted on September 2, 2017 by K.V. Johansen

The Serpent Bride, my second published book, was a collection of ten short stories that were literary fairy tales, retellings of ballads from Medieval Denmark, was published in 1998 from Thistledown Press. (For non-Canadians, that’s a venerable small literary press … Continue reading →

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Enter an Assassin: Ramblings on the Caravan Road 3

Posted on March 18, 2017 by K.V. Johansen

Ahjvar came into the Marakand story as a catalyst for disaster, the assassin who kills the Lady, or the Voice of the Lady (when I first conceived the story I hadn’t quite settled on how the Lady and the Voice … Continue reading →

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Endless Sky: Ramblings on the Caravan Road 2

Posted on February 11, 2017 by K.V. Johansen

I think the first time I drove out west was the summer I was five. I, obviously, was not driving, but plunked in the back seat with my little sisters and a colouring book and some old physiology exams to … Continue reading →

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