Petteri Hannila


Biography

I'm a writer from Central Finland, a software designer by day and a dad/husband/dreamer/martial artist by night.

It all began when I was eight years old. I found out that there were books of Tarzan, my childhood hero. My mother started to read them to me, but censored them - all of you who have read them know why. Annoyed by this, I started to read them on my own. Dreams and legends have followed me from those days, as companions on my voyage through life.

Only few years after that I thought about writing for the first time, but for a long time I pushed it away from my mind for supposedly more important things. Finally I understood that none of my stories would ever see the daylight until I got started, and I did.

From the days of Tarzan, exciting adventures and fantasy stories set in the past and the future have been my interest. Thus, the natural choice for me was to start writing science fiction and fantasy. Some years ago the idea of Fargoer made its way into my consciousness, and it hasn't loosened its grip of me since.

New Fargoer stories and paths of Vierra's future circle in my thoughts until I write them out. There are so many stories to tell until the end, and that end is painted clearly on my mind.

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Books

Fargoer    by Petteri Hannila
Price: $4.99 USD. 62120 words. Published on February 28, 2013. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Fargoer is a beginning of a series of fantasy novels set in mythic Viking Age. Vierra is a strong-minded girl of the Kainu tribe. When she, along with her cousin, heads for a journey toward her adulthood, the forces that are to direct her life are set in motion. Can Vierra break her path leading her toward a life filled with great turmoil, or will she fulfill her destiny as the Fargoer?
Kaukamoinen    by Petteri Hannila
Price: $6.99 USD. 42830 words. Published on February 16, 2013. Fiction.

Kaukamoinen aloittaa fantasiatarinoiden sarjan, joka imee voimansa Suomen synkästä, mutta kauniista luonnosta. Sen juuret ovat samalla kertaa sekä mytologiassa että muinaisessa, kirjoittamattomassa historiassamme. Tarinoiden perustukset on laskettu muinaisen maailman ihmeille ja nopeatempoista kerrontaa siivittää kalevalamittainen runous, esi-isiemme runollisen kerronnan kieli.
Storytime    by Petteri Hannila
Price: Free! 12810 words. Published by Creativia Publishing on January 1, 2013. Fiction.

We present to you eight strange and intriguing tales from Petteri Hannila, the author of Fargoer. A young man goes to buy flowers for his girlfriend... and makes a mistake he'll never forget. This disgruntled member of the old world order can accept it no more. But how far is he willing to go? Following her grandmother to the shore, a little girl noticed that this time, something is different.
The Birth of Kainu (Fargoer Short Stories, #0)    by Petteri Hannila
Price: Free! 640 words. Published on September 8, 2012. Fiction.

(5.00 from 3 reviews)
This is a mythic poem telling the story of the origins of Kainu people and the world of Fargoer. Fargoer is a novel set in the mythic far north.
End of Innocence (Fargoer Short Stories, #1)    by Petteri Hannila
Price: Free! 5320 words. Published on July 12, 2012. Fiction.

0.75 star(3.83 from 6 reviews)
Somewhere far in the north, in the middle of a dense forest, two girls have embarked on a sacred journey: a journey that is to end their carefree days among the children of their tribe. Grim as their world is, the destiny that is set upon them seems even darker, but such is often the way for the people of this land. First chapter of Fargoer, a novel set in the mythic far north.

Petteri Hannila’s tag cloud

adventure    birth of people    drama    fantasia    fantasy    fiction    fictional    finland    heimoyhteis    historiallinen    history and legends    horror    legends    magia    magic    mythic    myths    oral tradition    pulp    rite of passage    romance    seikkailu    shamanismi    stories    tribal    viikingit    vikings   

Smashwords book reviews by Petteri Hannila

  • Broken Paragraphs on Sep. 28, 2012
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    Very good. Sensual, gloomy, wordy. I especially like the longer ones near the end, because they really seem to take the reader away, into a different world.