Spent yesterday afternoon at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road, ostensibly browsing the science fiction section but actually solving a structural problem with Project Mirror. My protagonist has been too sympathetic. She fixes people’s aesthetic glitches with genuine belief that she’s helping, and readers need to understand why that conviction matters. But I’ve been missing the antagonist, […]
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Literary Titan published an interview with me yesterday about The Influencer’s Canvas, and reading my own answers back felt strange. Like watching yourself on video and noticing all the gestures you didn’t know you make. The interviewer asked how the book came about. I explained what I’ve been observing for years: people drop their guards
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Last night’s event at The London Library reminded me why I write about performance and authenticity. Hallie Rubenhold and Kate Summerscale discussed how misogyny and media sensationalism shaped two infamous British murder cases, and the parallels to our current moment felt unsettling. Rubenhold’s work on Dr Crippen reframes the story through Belle Elmore’s perspective, moving
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Yesterday I spent three hours wandering the six floors of Foyles on Charing Cross Road, and came away with exactly the kind of intellectual stimulation I didn’t know I needed. There’s something about being surrounded by 200,000 books that makes your own writing feel simultaneously insignificant and urgent. Standing in that spacious atrium with natural
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Woke up this morning to find Literary Titan had reviewed The Influencer’s Canvas and gave it four stars. Reading someone else’s interpretation of your work always feels surreal, like watching strangers discuss a conversation you thought was private. The reviewer called it ‘clever, biting, and unexpectedly tender’, which made me smile because that tension between
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Flying back from Antalya, I realised how identical beauty performance has become across cities. The same Instagram pose at the Mediterranean that I see on the Thames. The same filtered selfie technique at Turkish beach resorts that appears in Hyde Park. The same eyebrow shape, the same subtle lip enhancement, the same head tilt optimised
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Eurasian Creative Guild just confirmed I’ll lead a masterclass this autumn: “Narratives of Luxury and Identity in a Globalised World.” I’m excited and slightly terrified. The masterclass will explore how luxury industries shape contemporary identity formation. Using my five published novels as case studies, we’ll examine how brand management psychology, digital platforms, and global consumer
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Two months into writing Project Mirror and I’m finally ready to share a piece of this world with you. This excerpt comes from early in the book, when my protagonist still believes in what she’s doing. She works for Aesthetic Dynamics Corp as a Senior Aesthetic Technician, fixing glitches in people’s neural beauty systems. Think
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Dive into my latest novel that explores art meets algorithm in our hyperconnected world. Multilingual storytelling with visual elements—questioning what’s authentic behind perfectly curated facades.
