Book signing event

My travel book Här finns inga drakar was released about a week ago, after spending an indecent number of years rattling around inside my head, my computer and various increasingly questionable drafts. It’s been a wild ride to work on it and I’m thrilled to finally be able to share it with everyone.

The smug author, still looking for dragons.

Tonight we celebrated with a book signing at the wonderfully decadent Hotel Pigalle in Gothenburg. The Bibliothèque room provided exactly the right surroundings: dark wood, bookshelves, comfortable furniture and the vague feeling that somewhere nearby someone was plotting either a literary scandal or an affair.

A lot of people showed up to get their copies signed by yours truly, the smug author pictured above, while we worked our way through cheese, cold cuts and a respectable quantity of Cava. Because if you’re going to sit at a table writing your own name repeatedly, you might as well have bubbles.

People asked plenty of questions about the stories in the book. Mostly variations on the same basic theme: Did that really happen? Yes. All of it. Travel has a nasty habit of producing stories that would sound ridiculous if you invented them. That’s part of the appeal.

Celebrations goes well with bubbles.

…as well as cheese with cold cuts.

It was strange, wonderful and slightly surreal hearing people talk about stories that had stayed in my head for years. During the week since the book came out, I’ve received an almost suspicious amount of positive feedback. I’m enormously grateful to everyone who has bought it, read it, recommended it, or simply turned up tonight to drink Cava and humor a newly published author.

The book Här finns inga drakar is available now in both print and digital format. The dragons, regrettably, remain unavailable for comment.