2024 AUTHORS
Rose Marie Meuwissen
a first-generation Norwegian American born and raised in Minnesota, always tries to incorporate her Norwegian heritage into her writing. After receiving a BA in Marketing from Concordia University, a Masters in Creative Writing from Hamline University soon followed. Minnesota is still where she calls home.
She has traveled around the world, including Scandinavia, but still has many places to see, enjoys attending Scandinavian events, writing conferences and is usually busy writing Christmas Poems, Minnesota Lakes and Nordic Contemporary Romances, Viking Time Travel Romances or Norwegian Traditions Children’s Books.
Visit her at www.rosemariemeuwissen.com
Gay Strandemo
Grew up in northern Minnesota and now lives just outside of Madison, Wisconsin. For twelve years she wrote, produced, and directed plays for children based on international folk tales. One of these was based on stories from the Nordic region and included an Icelandic scene.
Her research on Iceland was so fascinating that she delved deeper into the subject, incorporating Icelandic customs into family life as well as writing and illustrating the picture book The Yule Boys, which is based on the jólasveinar. Gay has finished illustrating a story written by Bryndís Víglundsdóttir titled Gudrither's Saga, which will be published in 2022.
Gay is a public librarian who schedules and writes grants for adult programming. She loves to read, draw, write, travel, study languages, and dance flamenco.
Heidi Skarie
My interest in writing novels came about in an unusual way. One night I had a dream that was like watching an action-packed science fiction movie. The dream story continued over the next two nights. At the time, my children were young and it was difficult for me to find time to write down my dreams. Fortunately, it was a three-day weekend.
After writing a science fiction novel based on the dream-story, I began to write more books about the same characters and their continuing adventures in a war-torn universe. In 2014, I published the first novel in this series, Star Rider on the Razor’s Edge. I am currently working on the fifth book in the series, Call of the Eagle.
My interest in other cultures and places inspired me to branch out into historical fiction and I have two published novels in that genre.
Red Willow’s Quest is about the adventures of Red Willow, a young Native American woman, who is studying to become a medicine woman in 1807.
Annoure and the Dragon Ships is a well-researched saga that takes the reader from one of the first Viking raids on Saxon England to the steppes of Asia.
Renee Petersen
Viking Cooking
Renee Petersen will be cooking recipes from her new book, Modern Urban Viking Cooking, while sharing what the Vikings ate and what it was like to cook in the Viking Era. Stop by the Viking area to learn a new way of cooking Viking fare.
Roger Andersen
Author Roger Andersen’s book ‘The Immigrant’s Journey is about a sixteen-year old boy who leaves Norway in 1906, seeking a better life. He embarks on a journey that takes him across the vast continent of America, in search of a new home. This is the story that so many immigrants of that era shared. It is a grand adventure, as well as a great romance. You will laugh and cry during Enok's travels and travails. It is based on true events. It is the remarkable story of America in the early twentieth century. The Immigrant's Journey is the winner of Reedsy's "best new historical fiction" contest and received 5 stars from six other book review sites.
Denise Meinstad
Author Denise Devine, a USA Today bestselling author of seventeen books, has had a passion for books since the second grade when she discovered Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Her newest sweet romance series, West Loon Bay, takes place in a small tourist town poised on the shores of Lake Tremolo where the people are friendly and hard-working and there’s never a dull moment in this close-knit community of second and third-generation of Scandinavians. But everyone harbors secrets…
In the first book, Small Town Girl, Annika Nilsen has big-city dreams…At twenty-eight, she’s stuck in her hometown of West Loon Bay, Minnesota, population 397, with no boyfriend, no money, and no future.
In her historical series, Moonshine Madness, Charlotte Johnson, born and raised in Swede Hollow, is poised to escape poverty when she marries Gus LeDoux, a brewer's son. Life is good until Prohibition shuts down the brewery.
The first book, The Bootlegger's Wife, takes place in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, a haven for hardened criminals—and the women who find themselves trapped in a dangerous game…
Visit her website at: https://www.deniseannettedevine.com