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SILENCES: Reader's Guide

We're approaching the centenary of the battles that are widely considered to be the turning point of the Finnish Civil War, which...

100 Years Ago...Jussi and Karl

In SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, events 100 years ago have embroiled Jussi Mantere and the Solbakken family in...

Update: Local Availability

Fun announcement! SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR will soon be available at Fireweed. Fireweed, at 182 S. Algoma Street,...

Finnish Civil War Opera: My Brother's Keeper

The premiere of VELJENI VARTIJA, an opera by noted Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas, is this Friday, February 16, in Tampere, Finland,...

From the Author

At his website, author Roy Blomstrom considers the Finnish Civil War, snow, gloves, and conscription. As the divisions between Red...

Author Website: Roy Blomstrom

Roy Blomstrom, author of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, has a new website! It's www.royblomstrom.ca. (Left, he's...

100 Years Ago...Jussi's Mother

We're now into that part of 2018 that marks the 100th anniversary of events in the Finnish Civil War. One hundred years ago, Mannerheim...

Local Review: SILENCES

Local writer and reviewer Michael Sobota spent time this holiday season with SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, and wrote a...

Available Locally!

We're so pleased that copies of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR and CRADLE OF THE DEEP: MEMOIR OF A LAKE SUPERIOR COTTAGE...

SILENCES: New 2018 Printing

The good news is that we're low on our own physical copies of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR. Thank you, Thunder Bay,...

War in Winter

What "winter people" like to say: "It's a dry cold." "You get used to it." "Wear layers." "Any climate is tolerable if you have the right...

Launched!

Sunday afternoon, friends and readers and writers and various Scandihooligans gathered to launch SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH...

"Long Live Finland!"

One hundred years ago today, Finland declared its independence from Russia. The following is a scene from SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918...

Now Available! Silences: A Novel of the 1918 Finnish Civil War

We're thrilled to announce the publication of SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR by Roy Blomstrom. Set in Finland in 1918,...

Coming Soon!

Just in time for the centenary of Finland's independence, we're releasing SILENCES: A NOVEL OF THE 1918 FINNISH CIVIL WAR, by Roy...