As I just posted my
changed release schedule, which now includes a couple of novellas I wrote a few
years ago, but haven’t professionally published so far, I thought I might tell
you a little bit about how The Loki Files happened and what is to be expected
of this month’s and November’s releases.
It started out in
February 2014, when I finally got around to watching “Marvel’s The Avengers”
(pretty late, yes). Like so many other fans, I fell in love with Tom
Hiddleston’s Loki, but my imagination was too far-spread to just write some
Marvel Loki fan-fiction (not that those can’t be great, mind you). Instead, I
developed some kind of other reality, which retained some details (such as Loki
being adopted by Odin and raised as Thor’s brother), but changed a lot of other
things. I made a lot of twists in Norse mythology for this, but since my Loki
actually spread a lot of those stories, it was his decision to spread
misinformation. Typical for the trickster god, of course.
The Loki of my world
was found and adopted by Odin. As a teenager, he rebelled against his family
after finding out about this. He was the odd one out - the dark-haired mage
among the light-haired warriors. For quite a while, Odin didn’t know what to do
with him, then, as a last resort, he gave Loki a job. Odin made Loki his right
arm, his agent to do all the work which the warriors of Asgard were not capable
of. And in this new position which gave him freedom, but also a direction, Loki
thrived and turned from a troublesome adolescent into a rather dutiful adult.
Yet, he’s still very close to his brother (and his mother) and the two of them
have a talent for getting into trouble, which is basically half of the stories.
The first of the
stories, “Heart of Ice,” has a bit of really dark stuff in it. I had Loki
(almost) lose the woman he’s in love with and grow depressed afterwards. Things
end on a much higher note, but I found some of the scenes in this one hard to
write. A little later, I returned to that new world I had created for another
story, this one a light and funny buddy story which centres around Thor and
Loki. “Birth of Gods” was a change to shake things up a little and it worked
out very well. I introduced Loki’s talent for knife-throwing in this one. With
“Agents of Asgard,” I gave Loki a little more to do than before and had him
assemble a team. He got his personal weapon in this one as well and I had a lot
of fun writing it, too. These three stories will be compiled into “The Loki
Files Vol. 1.”
I continued the
stories with “Blood of Rulers,” which saw the end of a long war. The story was
interesting enough and I got to write more about the Sidhe, which is also a
good thing. Afterwards, “Protectors of Earth” brought in a long-term love
interest for Thor (a very long-term one, they go way back) and had Loki find
allies on earth. I finished the series up with “Servants of Life” and a severe
threat to Asgard. In it, I tidied up a lot, which was good, since I’ve not
written another story about this specific Loki ever since. These three novellas
will be compiled into “The Loki Files Vol. 2.”
I have written several
other stories about different versions of Loki, related to Odin and not, his
age and not, a frost giant prince, a frost giant with two dangerous brothers…
I’ve written a lot of different stuff in the one and a half years before I
started writing the Knight Agency (but enough about that). Yet, it was Loki who
pushed me back to writing more than the occasional piece of short erotica or
PWP. And that is why I want to share the first Loki stories I wrote with the
audience now.
“The Loki Files Vol. 1” will be released at the end of this month and “The
Loki Files Vol. 2” will follow in November. The e-books will be cheaper than my
regular work - not that they are worth less, but I feel it’s right, since they
were available at Feedbooks for free before.
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