Less Than Three Press
ISBN: 9781620045251
Genre: contemporary m/m
Series: Arctic Love 1-4
Wordcount: 93,000
Release date: February 10, 2015

Print compilation of the Arctic Love series

Polar Nights | 25,000
Andreas has been in love with Christian for as long as he can remember, but he’s also always known it would remain one-sided. When he travels to Svalbard to take the last years of his Masters, spending time with Christian again brings back those feelings and makes life more than a little awkward.

The very last thing Christian needs is to have a very grown, very stunning Andreas living with him for a few weeks. Even the awkwardness between them is not enough to stop his attraction. Neither is the fact that Andreas is his sister’s stepson.

Northern Lights | 23,000
Varg doesn’t particularly want to go to Svalbard, but with both his brother and best friend living there, it’s the most sensible place for a holiday. He certainly doesn’t expect Jonathan, though he’s not opposed to spending his holiday madly in lust. There are definitely worse ways to stay warm in the arctic until he goes home…

Midnight Sun | 21,000
Two months ago Frey moved to Svalbard, and Jørgen hasn’t been able to stop thinking about him since. But every time he thinks about asking Frey out, the fear that fills Frey’s eyes stops him. If keeping his distance keeps Frey from being afraid, then so be it.

Frey moved to Svalbard because it was supposed to be safe. He wasn’t supposed to fall in love, and he definitely wasn’t supposed to keep running into poachers.

White Nights | 24,000
Radimir has loved Aleksandr for more than a decade. Long convinced that Aleksandr will never love him in return, however, he has spent the years drifting from bed to bed, unable to settle when what he really wants is out of reach. And has been all the more out of reach since an impulsive, ultimately disastrous night together while out hiking. And will definitely be forever gone when Aleksandr returns to St. Petersburg.

Aleksandr wishes he could forget the night he gave in to a long-held desire for his friend, but more than anything he wishes that one night had led to so much more. But Radimir is a player, and Aleksandr doesn’t want to be simply another conquest.

Then family turmoil strikes Aleksandr hard, and he realizes the stability he’s always wanted was there all along…

Yesterday I got a bunch of pretty dropped in my inbox: covers for the Arctic Love series! Polar Nights and Northern Lights will be polished up and re-released with the new ones, while Midnight Sun will be released with the new from the get-go. The new covers have been put up on all three books’ new book pages right here on the website.

AND, it’s not just those three, but the cover for the fourth novella, White Nights, was also included in the set! White Nights is currently set for release in January. Haven’t got a blurb yet, but I’ll be sure to share it when I do have it.

All four covers were made by the awesome Natasha Snow! May she make more covers for me in the future.

Speaking of the book pages… I seem to have deleted all the reviews and stuff I had up here before I re-did my website last time, so I have to hunt those down again. And all books will get their own behind the scenes page in due time too, with materials you may or may not find interesting.

With that said, I’ll just leave you with the pretties, because they sure deserve being gazed lovingly upon, like I’ve done ever since I received them.

             

Years ago I made some covers. (Okay, not that long ago, maybe back in 2009-2011 somewhere.) This was before I was published, back when I put my stories up on Fictionpress and Aarinfantasy for people to read for free. Back when I’d just started buying published m/m books.

I started by buying books from Totally Bound when they were still Total-E-Bound. I loved their covers and wanted to try my hand at making similar covers for my own stories. (Now I’m more partial to covers that doesn’t show half-naked torsos, but this wasn’t the case back then.)

The first covers I made was for my Arctic Love series (back then only known as the Svalbard stories). I’d written six books in that series by the time, but the last two were in the POV of the couples from the first two books, so their covers were the same, only the images were reversed. I guess I lost inspiration or something after the first four, or I didn’t have any other good pictures that matched the men.

I’m very happy with the picture of Longyearbyen at the bottom of every cover, as well as the font and placement of it. As for the cover models, I like Northern Lights the most, because they’re the most alike how I picture Jonathan and Varg. I also like the cover for White Nights, because of the ship in the background.

What do you think about the covers? These were, as mentioned, some of the first ones I did, and with that in consideration I’m quite happy with them.

 

“unikt, trygt og skapende”
“unique, secure and creative”

Longyearbyen (English: Longyear Town) is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of Svalbard. It is located on the western coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago, on the southern side on Adventfjorden (English: the Advent fjord), which continues inland with Adventdalen (English: the Advent valley). The Governor of Svalbard and his administration reside in Longyearbyen.

Longyearbyen has approximately 2,000 inhabitants. It is one of the world’s northernmost towns, and the most northerly town with a population of over 1,000.

Geography

Owing to its location far north of the Arctic Circle, Longyearbyen is in polar night from November 14th to January 29th, and in polar day (or midnight sun) from April 19th to August 23rd.Longyearbyen has an Arctic tundra climate.

Economy

Mining still plays a major role in the community. The Norwegian mining company, Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani, runs two coal mines (Longyearbyen #7 and Svea), and coal mining employs about half the residents.

Nicknamed “Doomsday Vault”, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, an Arctic safe capable of storing millions of crop seeds, is located near Longyearbyen. Global Crop Diversity Trust administers the facility. The safe has been designed to protect against natural and human disasters, including global warming, floods and fires, and nuclear holocaust. The site was chosen for both its remoteness and ambient temperature of the permafrost.

Education

In 1993, the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) was opened; it is a cooperation of all four Norwegian universities, providing lectures in geophysics, arctic biology, geology and Arctic technology as well as bachelor, master and PhD positions. The faculty consists of 20 fulltime professors, 21 assistant professors and 120 guest lecturers.

English is the official language of work, and currently about 350 international students take at least one course per year at UNIS. The student body consists of 50% Norwegian and 50% international students; there are no tuition fees, and most students live in six renovated mining barracks in Nybyen.

Media

Longyearbyen has one newspaper, Svalbardposten. Also published are three newspapers called LYB News, Longyearbyen Weekly and THE LYB (written in all capitals).

Tourism

Most tourists to Longyearbyen arrive during spring and summer. Spring is very popular since Spitsbergen is one of the few places in Norway where a snowmobile can be driven in open country without special permission. However, due to strict environmental laws not all of the main island of Spitsbergen is accessible. From February until November several tour operators provide a wide range of guided trips.

Longyearbyen is the world’s most northern easily accessible settlement, with Svalbard Airport just outside town offering regular flights to and from Tromsø and Oslo, Norway. It is also the northernmost town over 1000 inhabitants; it houses a large number of northernmost places and objects of interest: the northernmost church, hospital, tourist office, permanent airport with scheduled flights, bus station, commercial sea port.

Community

The community offers a wide range of activities and facilities: there is a swimming hall, a climbing wall, a big sports hall, a grocery store, three pubs, three hotels, one church, several tourist shops, a cinema (Sundays), one night club, and a squash court. There is also the University Centre in Svalbard, which represents four Norwegian universities and provides university-level education in Arctic studies.

Inhabitants

At the end of 2007, Longyearbyen had around 2060 inhabitants. 500 people (or 25% of the current population) moved to Longyearbyen during 2007. About 300 people, or 15% of the population, are non-Norwegian nationals, with Thailand, Sweden, Russia and Ukraine being the most highly-represented nationalities.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen)

So far, only Polar Nights has been released in the Arctic Love series. The first three books, the main books, were supposed to run as a serial, but I got stuck with a major case of writer’s block, so Polar Nights was the only book that was finished. A while ago, all the characters wanted to rewrite their stories completely, which would mean writing the entire series all over again.

Now, when my head’s on straight again after this summer where I’ve been completely AWOL, I’m a bit torn about it all. I like the new ideas for the characters, but at the same time I like the original plots. If I stick to the original plots, I only have to go through and edits the rest of the series, because all books are finished.

The only thing I’m not happy about right now is the ending to Polar Nights. It set up the next story for Frey and Jørgen. Originally, theirs was the third story. I’m a bit torn about how to do this. I have some of Frey and Jørgen’s story half re-written, but it won’t be as long as the rest of the books at this rate.

What I am looking forward to is Jonathan’s book. Jonathan is probably my favourite character in the entire series. Perhaps my favourite character of all my books. The fourth book is about two Russians met in Frey’s book, while the fifth is about both Andreas & Christian and Jonathan & his love interest. The sixth books is another one dealing only with Jonathan.

I love these characters, this series. They’ve been on hold for a long time now, and I think it’s finally time to get back to them and give them all some well-deserved love.