#thorlove

[amaliadillin]

Did you know you can pre-order the 10th anniversary special edition hardcover of FORGED BY FATE from Barnes and Noble right now???

An additional 4000 words, PLUS Tempting Fate and Brice Price in the back, PLUS a pretty new interior and the book is fully revised (that 4000 additional words is over the starting wordcount but I did some solid rewriting where it was called for, too.)

PLUS, it is a beautiful dust-jacketed hardcover for your shelf! And look at that new cover art!!!

[theamaliad]

“How many Jotuns did you betray,” Thor asked quietly, his voice utterly calm, “then call upon me to defend Asgard when they dared object? And every time, I did as you asked, without question, without a moment’s doubt. Every time I slaughtered them, to prove myself, to make you proud.”

Forged by Fate, Fate of the Gods: Book One

[amaliadillin]

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY to Forged by Fate, my debut!!! In celebration, I've released a FULLY REVISED 10th Anniversary HARDCOVER edition, with an additional 4,000 words, plus Mia's novella TEMPTING FATE and Adam's short story BRIDE PRICE included in the back of the book!

It's available with a dust jacket from Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forged-by-fate-amalia-dillin/1114751257?ean=9798823174299

Or from Amazon, in case laminate (no dust jacket, the art is printed directly on the cover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXN4X585

Get yours or tell a friend!!! FORGED BY FATE is now better than ever!!! --

After Adam fell, God made Eve to protect the world. From the Garden of Eden to the present day, Eve, Elohim's daughter, has found more than one great love across her many lives. Her calling: to be an example of love to those around her, in order to counter the influence of her so-called brother Adam, and his conceit, greed, and pride. When Adam arrives in Eve's present, he is desperate to claim the power of a godchild only she can give him. But the Archangel Michael has sworn it will mean not only Eve’s death, but the murder of her entire family, her House of Lions, the only people she trusts with the truth of her life. Thor, God of thunder, has spent millennia in uneasy alliance with other gods and immortals, all vying for the devotion of humanity to keep themselves alive. But if Adam and Eve have a child, the True God will rise, and all other gods will be cast back out into the void to die. Drawn to Eve’s love but forbidden to reveal himself as a god, one thing has become clear to Thor: as great a threat as her child might be, humanity cannot survive without her. And after one too-short lifetime as her husband, nearly three thousand years ago, he won't allow either the angels or the gods to harm her, even if it means betraying his own kind.

[amaliadillin]

Happy Thor’s Day!

Celebrating with the release of a fun Thor-ish short story for you all! And it’s just 99 cents!

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After her mother's death, a lonely little girl imagines herself a friend named Donar to chase away her fears at night. There's nothing strange about that, exactly. He tucks her in at night when her father is working late, and tells her stories about golden boars and magic cloaks made of feathers that allow a person to fly. When Donar is with her, she knows she'll always be safe. Then she grows up. But somehow, her so-called *imaginary* friend never went away.

[theamaliad]

Are you ready to fight with Freydis? 

[amaliadillin]

Cool Uncle Loki

MANY MANY MOONS AGO, I wrote a post on ye olde blog about Thor and Loki and what feels to me to be the heart of their relationship, and it feels like something worth sharing on the eve of ThorsGiving:

So much of how I judge Thor is related to how he interacts with others, his relationships with the other gods, his loyalty to the people he loves. His relationship with Loki, of course, is at the center of a lot of this in the myths. Thor and Loki are always traveling together, always getting into mischief and bailing each other out of it, and until recently, I didn't really understand the dynamic between them. It is so easy for me to see Loki as the villain, the deceiver and the troublemaker, and so hard for me to see what Thor does in the myths: a companion and friend, someone worth seeking out for adventures, someone to keep at your back or turn to in a crisis.

Then it occurred to me that Loki was sometimes considered a blood brother to Odin, Thor's father. And Odin was king of the gods, king of Asgard, ruler and warrior. No doubt he was a very busy god. What if Loki stepped in where Odin did not have the time to spend? What if Thor had been raised from a young age to consider Loki as his uncle? What if that was the foundation of their relationship? It explains everything so perfectly, fits everything together like matching pieces in a puzzle.

Loki was the cool uncle who let Thor do all the fun stuff. Loki was the person who took him on adventures and rescued Thor from trouble at the last minute. We see it in the myths, too, that when Thor is in trouble, he goes to Loki first, not Odin. Just consider the cross-dressing Thor, incident. When the Mjolnir disappears, Thor doesn't race to his father, the man with the seat that allows him to see everything in the nine worlds, Thor goes to Loki. Thor goes to Loki because Loki has always gotten him out of scrapes in the past, and Loki isn't going to judge him, or give him a hard time, or punish him, the way a father might, for getting into the scrape to begin with. Even though Odin could have discerned the location of Mjolnir faster and more easily, Thor appeals to a different power for help.

[amaliadillin]

Let's Talk Norse - Mythology in Fiction

As avid fan of Norse Mythology I've been delighted to encounter the gods and monsters re-incarnated, re-invented and revived in over 100 different fiction ti...

Oh, hey, look. It’s uh. Me and my face! On a panel! Talking about Norse Myth!!!

Everything from the source materials, the books I love (Shout out to Giants of the Frost!) and my own writing! Plus a bonus comparative mythology moment where Hercules makes an appearance because I cannot talk about Thor’s Masquerade as Freyja without him, I guess.

[amaliadillin]

Looking for a Christmas historical fantasy with a dash of romance and a few too many rats? Love mythology?  TAMING FATE, a Fate of the Gods Novella, is the story for you!