It was early 2009 that I wrote the first chapters of what would become an eight-book series – InnebandyPiraterna (Floorball Pirates) about the fictional Floorball World Tour and a junior team from Helsingborg, Sweden that decided to go on an adventure together.
Those chapters were published as a serial on my personal blog and the intention was to create some sort of community with members around it. But it was too early for that and instead readers wanted to buy it as a book. A paper book.
The first book, called Första säsongen (First Season) was published in november 2009. The eight book was released in december 2022.
Over the years some people have asked for a translation to their native language, even if the books have been read in some other Nordic countries like Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Now it is 2024 and technology has given me tools that makes it easier to write and/or translate between Swedish and English. Also there are platforms for serialising fiction.
Also a lot of InnebandyPiraterna readers have asked for more books.
So taking all this into consideration I decided to create a spinoff to InnebandyPiraterna. Yet again set on the Floorball World Tour, but with a new hero. Not a team, but a player in search of a team as he has been abandoned by his team mates.
I have had a lot of fun writing the first ten chapters and creating the plot.
I hope that both new readers and readers of the other series will enjoy this new adventure that will be published in English as a serial. There will most likely be collections in the future, even published as paper books and probably before that – as audiobooks.
Oh, right. Who is Sölve Dahlgren?
Well, I was born in 1972 and has been working as journalist most of my life even today I combine writing books with writing articles. I live outside of Helsingborg in the south of Sweden, when I walk down to the beach I can see Denmark across the sound.
I also have a website at solvedahlgren.se (in Swedish)