We Run on

Stories.

If we didn't have stories, what would we have? Nothing. (I am being serious.)

You remember the time when we found the old wooden wagon at the attic? And how Peter, while pulling us, fell face first to the granna’s blueberry pie cooling by the porch? (He planned it, he later confessed.)

I have always, always, always loved stories. Yes, I was the crazy kid who loved libraries and book stores. I still love them.

As a species, we've been telling stories since we lived in caves and trees. Without stories, we’re just baboons in suits, as Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck (PhD, btw) has said.

(I love her.)

I never planned to become a novelist. I wanted to be an astronaut or an architect, both where I had absolutely zero talent for. But somehow I’ve published four novels, with Tammi Publishers, in Finnish, of course, since it’s my mother tongue.

I’ve published both children’s fiction (books and novels), as well as adult fiction novels.

You can find some of the critiques towards the end of the page.

Click to neuroscience ->

↑ Rewind to the Radical.

A film is a story, told on 24 frames per second.

When I started working at The Finnish Broadcasting Company, our unit was in the same building where the actual national broadcasting happened.

Some of our tech was wired straight into the stream. For the first year, I had recurring nightmares that I’d somehow cut off the national broadcast.

(I didn’t. As far as I know.)

As part of a core team, I was responsible for TV1’s stakeholder communications at FBC — while also writing and concepting dozens of trailers across all television channels. We did the big launches and stuff. During that, I wrote a 17-episode television series for FBC alongside.

Out of respect for copyright, I can only share one of the films here.

I also have to confess.

I’ve been disturbingly fascinated by the architecture of good audiovisual storytelling. Sitcom is one of the most brutally difficult forms of it — so in my BA thesis in scriptwriting, I broke down one episode of Friends to bolts and nuts, through.

Architecture of a Sitcom: BA thesis
| Friends: The One Where The Structure Matters

↑ Rewind to the Radical.

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#The first rule: Show, don’t tell.

Working on currently
P. Pablo, novel
Kälämi, novel

Published Children’s books & fiction
Kohti, Tammi Publishers, 2005
Oiva, Tammi Publishers, 2011

Adult Fiction Books
Hippiäinen, Tammi Publishers, 2015
Unisammakko, Tammi Publishers, 2026

Film & Television
17-episode series, scriptwriter, Finnish Broadcasting Company
Branding & audience engagement, scriptwriting, Finnish Broadcasting Company
Films, scriptwriting & concept designing, The Irish Festival of Oulu

As a independent journalist
Helsingin Sanomat / Sanoma Media Finland
MeNaiset

Accepted member
Finnish Writers’ Union, Suomen Kirjailijaliitto, https://kirjailijaliitto.fi/
Finnish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild, Suomen Näytelmäkirjailijat ja Käsikirjoittajat https://sunklo.fi/
Women in Film & Television Finland, WIFT International https://www.wift.fi/english
Oulu Writers’ Association, Oulun kirjailijaseura rywww.oulunkirjailijaseura.fi/en/home
The Society of Authors, United Kingdom https://societyofauthors.org/

Awards & Recognitions
Film short listing | National
1st Place in Concept Designing | National
2d Place in Concept Designing / National
Honorary Award in Concept Designing | National

Positions of Trust
Board Member, Oulu Writers’ Association, 2010–2015

Some reviews of my novels.

"... J.K. Rowling-level storytellers."

Aamulehti, leading Finnish newspaper
"...serious themes are softened with dark humor..."

Kaleva, leading Finnish newspaper
"...masters her style and writes well."

Turun Sanomat, leading Finnish newspaper
"...a therapeutic reading experience."

Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest newspaper