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Moments

Moments is a work in progress. The idea was to publish a new short story every Friday in 2021, starting on 8 January. This is a large and demanding task, and half a year has gone by succesfully. At…

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Blood and Rain

Blood and Rain

Blood and Rain is Villi Asgeirsson’s second novel. It was published on 3 March 2017 and is available at all major eBook vendors. - Gunnar was a young journalist in Iceland. Covering local news…

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Under the Black Sand

Under the Black Sand is Villi Asgeirsson's debut novel, published in 2013. Pétur lives in the post-banking collapse Iceland where businessmen try to benefit and politicians pretend to be honest. He…

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Undir Svörtum Sandi

Undir Svörtum Sandi

Undir Svörtum Sandi er fyrsta bók höfundar, nú í íslenskri þýðingu. Pétur nýtur sín í heimi peninga og valda þar sem menn í viðskiptum reyna að hagnast og stjórnmálamenn þykjast vera heiðarlegir.…

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The Performer – a short story

25 June 2021 By villia Leave a Comment

The audience was still stomping and clapping, calling his name. It annoyed him slightly. What did they want from him? The same old songs he’d played for years on end? The same banter between the songs? I wrote this one after… blah, blah, blah.

Jónsmessa – smásaga

21 June 2021 By villia Leave a Comment

Sagt er að á Jónsmessu geti kýr talað, álfkonur freisti manna og selir breytist í menn. Jón fór til hvílu, en honum varð lítið um svefn þessa nóttina.

Summer Solstice – a short story

20 June 2021 By villia Leave a Comment

According to Icelandic tradition, on the night of Summer Solstice, cows can speak, seals turn into humans and rolling in the morning dew will bring good fortune.

The House of the Living – a short story

11 June 2021 By villia Leave a Comment

We did not turn on the lights at night, as you probably expect of our sort. Neither did we slam doors or look through the windows from the outside. Never did we rearrange jars in the kitchen or throw furniture around. We are not like that.

Spectre – a short story

4 June 2021 By villia Leave a Comment

Waking up to a thundering headache, it took a while for my eyes to adjust, yet I couldn’t place where I was. Never been here before. Music played somewhere.

Memory Lane

Undir Svörtum Sandi

My First Translation

2 October 2019 By villia Leave a Comment

It’s hard to imagine the thrill of writing a full blown novel until you do it. When Under the Black Sand was completed, six years ago, I could hardly believe it. If I can do it once, I can do it again, I though. in 2017, Blood and Rain was published. It was written differently, […]

Are Internet users thieves?

8 February 2017 By villia Leave a Comment

Back in 2007, I released my short film Black Sand onto the world. I used it as an experiment to see if Internet users really were the thieving scum some claim them to be. It’s been ten years and I can’t remember the details of how it all went. After searching my old blog (in […]

Keep Calm

19 September 2012 By villia Leave a Comment

Distractions. They are everywhere. They are the writer’s worst enemy. Someone said that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. It’s all hard work and keeping at it. An updated version of this quote was that genius was 1% inspiration and 99% avoiding the Internet. Keep writing, they tell us. Write daily. But sometimes it’s […]

Mi libra es espanol?

30 September 2018 By villia Leave a Comment

I haven’t written in a while. Been busy working, playing guitar badly and I did start work on translating Under the Black Sand into my native Icelandic language. A couple of days ago, a (presumably lovely) lady from Argentina offered to translate the Sand into Spanish. I read the contract (a major undertaking) and decided […]

Blood and Rain – novel published

27 February 2017 By villia 1 Comment

For immediate release. Blood and Rain, Villi Asgeirsson’s second novel, is published on 3 March 2017. It is a historic novel, taking place in civil war Spain in 1937. The novel follows a young Icelander, Gunnar Ólafsson, as he tries to realise his dream of becoming a world famous journalist. You can find a short description […]

How do I write?

6 October 2019 By villia Leave a Comment

Someone asked what my process of writing novels was. Here is what I said. This how you manage to keep track of 60-90.000 words without getting lost. I first come up with an idea. Why do I want to write this story. Without an idea, you won’t come very far and you’ll get lost. A […]

Design Decisions

17 August 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

Here it is. A new site design. It’s WordPress and I have no idea how to use WordPress. I write novels and shoot photos. I even play with airplanes during my working hours. I don’t design websites, but here it is. The reason this site exists is to help the world find my novels. That’s […]

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Villi Asgeirsson – Author

Villi Asgeirsson – Author

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Under the Black Sand Under the Black Sand
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Undir Svörtum Sandi Undir Svörtum Sandi

Blood and Rain Blood and Rain

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