Erik Martenson

✨🚀✨ Prize-winning sci-fi novelist with a love for traveling. Author of The Last Navigator books in English & Norwegian.

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

What an amazing day! My newest novel is live, and sales are already rolling in. Let’s push it to the top of the bestseller lists! Every sale counts. ✨🙏✨

Please help spread the word. 🚀 Link in bio. 👀

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

I’m halfway through the 1st draft of my next novel. And in other news, I’ve started watching two new shows on TV+ (I refuse to call it Apple TV, because that’s the box, IMO): Your Friends & Neighbors and The Hunt. 😇

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Writecation is over, but I’m still writing (just slower). At 31K words now. Dreaming about the next travel already. Can’t seem to get enough of Italy. ☀️🩷🇮🇹

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Writecation update: Been doing 1K words every day for a while, and reached 27K total yesterday. Autumn/winter release very likely. TLN5. ✨🚀✨
Pic is the Palermo Central Station. Photo: Me

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

New update from my writecation. Been doing 1K words every day for the last few days. Total wordcount now 24K. Fifth book in The Last Navigator series. ✨🚀✨ Had to celebrate with some gelato! 🥳 Ciao ciao!

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Managed a thousand words yesterday, and today 500. First draft coming along nicely! Writing, sunshine, good food, and sightseeing. Italy is Heaven! 🥳

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Yesterday and the day before I wrote 500 words each day. Now at 20K total. Will attempt to up daily production to 1K.
Also been reading a lot. Will finish Fevre Dream by GRRM soon. 📚

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

When in Rome. Have to try the canolo even if I don’t normally eat sugar. 😅

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

We had some amazing pizza yesterday at Frida pizzeria here in Palermo. Simply amazing, but far from simple! Possibly the best pizza I ever had anywhere. Writecation day 1. Today is day 2. Working on TLN5. ✨🚀✨

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

New writecation happening right now. In beautiful Palermo on the island of Sicily. Landed yesterday and already at 19K words on the new book. ✨🚀✨ Stay tuned for more updates!

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Sitrep on the new book: Finished chapter 13 and started 14, yesterday. About one third done with the 1st draft. 100 pages written. ✨🚀✨ The Last Navigator vol. 5

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

I huffed, and I puffed … and I managed 500 words today, bringing the total up to 18,500 on The Last Navigator 5, due to be released late this year. ✨🚀✨

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Read the book in 2005. Watched the movie today. 7/10.

https://t.co/eboGcFqZZh

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

The Magicians (2015—2020) is a fantastic TV show. I had the first 3 seasons on BD, then couldn’t get more. Now the final 2 resurfaced on Sky Showtime! Watching now. 😎

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Awesome review there for my third TLN book. Thanks!!!

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Link in bio. Each book is only $4.99! ✨

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Work on TLN5 manuscript progresses. At 17,383 words now. Getting there, slowly, page by page, chapter by chapter. Still looking at an autumn launch. 🚀🚀🚀 Yes, 2026. 😂

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

All right! Back on track with the writing. Book five WILL be published this year. Look for a late fall launch. 🚀 🚀 🚀

Wordcount: 16,700

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@Cyrus_Fazel 🚀 🚀 🚀

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

I just finished A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin and gave it 10/10. https://t.co/aWzEoJgrpJ via @BookBub

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Writecation on Cyprus going well. Good progress on TLN5. Yesterday I visited the capital and the last divided city in the world: Nicosia. Also went to Troodos Mountains. This is my office now:

Link in bio! 🚀

[Erik Martenson @kaarvok]

Never skip leg day. Walk, don’t run. Keep calm and breathe through the nose.