About

Camilla Bruce is a Norwegian writer of speculative and historical fiction. She has a master’s degree in comparative literature and has co-run a small press that published dark fairy tales. Camilla currently lives in Trondheim with her son and cat.

Speculative titles:
You Let Me In (2020)
The Witch in the Well (2022)

Historical titles:
In the Garden of Spite (2021)
All the Blood We Share (2022)

Email: camillabruce@gmail.com

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Represented by Brianne Johnson at HG Literary.

Photo: Lene J. Løkkhaug

Interviews:
Bookanista: Camilla Bruce: Away with the faeries
Sci-Fi Bulletin: Interview: Camilla Bruce
Writer’s Digest: Camilla Bruce: An Almost Published Author No More (Author Spotlight)
Books, Bones & Buffy: Interview With Camilla Bruce – Author Of YOU LET ME IN
Publishers Weekly: Lady Killer: PW Talks with Camilla Bruce
México Lector: You Let Me In: A Bloody Fairy Tale by Camilla Bruce
IndyStar: From Norway to Indiana yard of corpses, novel explores serial killer Belle Gunness

Guest Posts:
Writer’s Digest: How To Blend True Crime With Historical Fiction in Your Writing
CrimeReads: The Allure of the Arsenic Squad
CrimeTime: You Let Me In: Camilla Bruce talks to Crime Time
The Guardian: Top 10 books about imaginary friends
The Big Issue: Top 5 gothic novels
CrimeReads: Eight Novels to Make you Question Reality
BookPage: You Let Me In: How this Norwegian came to write in English
Female First: Camilla Bruce: Seven things I’d like my readers to know about me 
The Mary Sue: Our Books, Our Shelves: RIP, IRL—Fandom Has Always Lived Online (with Kit Rocha)
Book Marks: Camilla Bruce on Lizzie Borden, Shirley Jackson, and Grimms’ Fairy Tales: 19 RAPID-FIRE BOOK RECS FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN THE GARDEN OF SPITE

Podcasts and video:
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Narration and ambiguity with Camilla Bruce (podcast)
The Worm Hole: Episode 10: Camilla Bruce (podcast)
Stay-At-Home! Literary Festival: Monsters in Fiction (with Catriona Ward) (YouTube)