New Release

The Influencer's canvas

The Influencer’s Canvas explores what happens when art meets algorithm, authenticity confronts performance, and creativity navigates the digital maze. My most experimental novel yet—featuring multilingual dialogue and visual storytelling elements that push literary boundaries.

influencer's canvas

New book 2026

Project Mirror

Your face just crashed. Reboot required.

In a world of neural beauty filters, one woman hunts glitches: frozen smiles on Zoom, clashing features in the feed. She resets stacks, erases flaws, convinced she’s smashing the genetic lottery.

But perfection demands perfect minds.

Dive into the filtered future we’re building. Pre-order now and unmask the truth.

writer julia zolotova

A Word From The Author

Writing The Influencer’s Canvas felt like painting with pixels instead of pigments—each chapter required balancing analog creativity with digital reality. The characters emerged from countless nail art sessions with content creators who trusted me with their unfiltered truths. This story honors both the art and the artifice of our hyperconnected age.

Julia Zolotova
Novelist, Observer, Multilinguist.

Omnichannel Hearts

2024

Eastern Empire

2023

Luxury Labyrinth

2023

Polished Edges

2022

Temporary Access

2021

Writing & publishing since 2021

From London nail salons to luxury labyrinths, Eastern empires to digital hearts — each book peels back another layer of modern identity. Explore the complete collection that established my reputation for psychological insight wrapped in cultural sophistication.

Blog

Burabay Reflections

Four days at Voices of Friends V taught me something unexpected about creative territories. Not the usual festival insights about networking or inspiration – something rawer. Watching Kazakhstani poets read alongside British writers, listening to Russian authors translate emotion into English in real-time, I realized we’re all performing translation. Not

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The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Do

Yesterday morning, whilst waiting for my flat white at Monmouth Coffee on Monmouth Street, I opened Goodreads to mark a book as finished. The app immediately suggested The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis. I stared at the recommendation for longer than seemed reasonable for someone standing in a coffee queue. I’d been

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Project Mirror: Another Look

Four months into writing Project Mirror and I’m ready to share another piece. After the response to my first excerpt, several people asked to see more of how this world actually functions. This scene comes later in the book, when my protagonist starts noticing cracks in the system. A teenage

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