Oak Bay resident and emerging Viking fantasy author Ian Stuart Sharpe recently returned from what he calls a reverse invasion of the Jorvik Viking Festival in York, England.

While there, he not only immersed himself in the festival among Norse history fans and Viking reenactments, Sharpe also launched his newest book (also his second book), LokiB次元官网网址檚 Wager, to an audience that was sure to embrace it.

B次元官网网址淛orvik is recognized as the largest event of its kind in Europe, and so if you want to launch a new book about Vikings, it is the place to be,B次元官网网址� Sharpe said. B次元官网网址淭he key thing for me all these years after Leif Erikson landed on Canadian shores was to give something back to the Norse community. The Beatles and the Vikings invaded North America, I was just doing it reverse.B次元官网网址�

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LokiB次元官网网址檚 Wager is the sequel to SharpeB次元官网网址檚 2018 debut novel the All Father Paradox, published by Outland Entertainment. Thanks to online sales, the books have sold in Canada, the U.K., U.S.A., Slovenia, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Colombia, the Ukraine, Australia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

SharpeB次元官网网址檚 books are for fans of Norse history and Vikings who are looking to dive into the next level of a Norse universe where the Vikings prevailed in Europe rather than succumbed to Christian rule. As Sharpe explains, if you are a fan of the television drama Vikings, that is a B次元官网网址済ood jumping-off point.B次元官网网址�

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All this to say, publishing books about Vikings is a second passion to SharpeB次元官网网址檚 successful career in online streaming technology. Sharpe runs Promethean.tv, an online platform for interactive video. He also lives a fairly B次元官网网址淥ak BayB次元官网网址� life with his wife, two children, and a dog.

His company has grown from more than a promising startup to picking up major clients in Asia. It embeds overlays onto live sports streams such as statistics or social media posts (the idea is the user can choose from a plethora of options).

But when heB次元官网网址檚 in between pitching major telecommunication representatives in Thailand, Sharpe goes back in time to his own Viking universe.

Since completing LokiB次元官网网址檚 Wager, Sharpe has started a graphic novel series B次元官网网址� The Jotunn War B次元官网网址� through Kickstarter that has nearly reached its goal. For SharpeB次元官网网址檚 catalogue visit .