Project Mirror finally has a face, and it’s haunting in exactly the right way. The ornate mirror frame feels deliberately anachronistic against the digital ghost floating inside it. There’s something unsettling about classical beauty containing a glitched reflection. The designer understood what I’ve been writing about for two years: we’re all performing for invisible audiences, […]
Monday night at Shoreditch House with Lucy Foley reminded me why I rarely attend book club events. Most writer conversations feel rehearsed. This one didn’t. ELLE COLLECTIVE organized the evening and brought the right crowd. Foley talked about The Midnight Feast the way I think about Project Mirror. She pitched her book as “Soho Farmhouse
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Literature Across Frontiers just confirmed a series of UK engagements for 2026 and I’m genuinely excited about this. June: LAF Intercultural Forum in Cardiff. Keynote reading plus workshops on writing across languages. Co-hosted with Literature Wales and Cardiff University. This is exactly the kind of work I want to be doing: practical craft sessions with
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I re-released Temporary Access because the psychological state I documented at pandemic borders turned out to be how everyone lives now. The collection follows twelve women navigating 2020-2021 when borders closed without warning and every permission was provisional. QR codes, visa applications, quarantine passes. I thought I was capturing an exceptional moment of uncertainty. Four
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Thursday evening at Fulham Library. I’d structured the discussion around a question that’s been bothering me whilst writing Project Mirror: do we ever stop performing, even when alone? The answer came through extended silences that revealed more than any prepared response could have. I’d prepared questions about digital self-presentation, algorithmic beauty, the performance of authenticity.
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Try this: Picture yourself completely alone. No cameras, no one watching. What are you wearing in that image? How are you standing? You’re still performing. Even in your own head, you can’t access an unperformed version of yourself. I’m writing Project Mirror, a novel where people’s faces get software updates. Neural implants adjust bone structure
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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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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.
