Two months inside Project Mirror and I have to take regular walks through Hyde Park just to remember what unfiltered reality looks like. The corporate structure behind my fictional beauty-tech empire is becoming terrifyingly plausible. I’m calling them Aesthetic Dynamics Corp – chose the name for its bland corporate poetry, the kind that hides sinister […]
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Three weeks deep into Project Mirror research and reality keeps making my dystopian fiction look tame. My protagonist is shaping up as a tech support specialist for people’s faces. When someone’s lip enhancement algorithm crashes mid-Zoom call, she fixes it. When their eye color update conflicts with skin tone optimization, she debugs their entire aesthetic
Yesterday a client asked for ‘influencer hands.’ Not the manicure – she wanted surgery to match some AI-generated beauty standard from TikTok. Her actual hand shape wasn’t good enough anymore. That conversation gave me my next book idea. I’ve been sketching this world where beauty isn’t just aspirational – it’s algorithmic. Your reflection gets software
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Sometimes the most meaningful validation comes from unexpected quarters. This week, I discovered that Eastern Empire had been the subject of a comprehensive critical analysis in Arts & Culture UK, penned by respected critic and reviewer Yulia Tulegenova. Reading Tulegenova’s piece felt like watching someone carefully dissect the architectural blueprints of a building you’d constructed
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The most valuable lesson from my luxury brand management MBA wasn’t taught in any classroom — it came from watching a content creator have a breakdown in my nail salon. She’d built a million-follower empire around wellness and authenticity, but sitting in my chair, mascara smudged, she whispered: “I don’t remember who I was before
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It’s live. The Influencer’s Canvas officially launched on Amazon this morning, available worldwide for the first time in my publishing journey. Watching the page go live, seeing the cover appear in search results, receiving the first reader reviews — the surreal nature of digital publication never quite becomes routine. Looking back at this four-year journey
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Sometimes validation arrives when you least expect it. Last week brought the final results of the Gala Literary Competition 2025, and while I didn’t take the top prize, Eastern Empire made it to the finals — a result that still leaves me genuinely moved. The notification email sat in my inbox between promotional messages and
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The countdown to completion feels surreal. The Influencer’s Canvas stands nearly finished — manuscript complete, final revisions underway, details being polished until they gleam. After months of layering narrative elements like paint on canvas, I’m approaching those final decisive brushstrokes that determine whether the work succeeds or falls short of its ambitions. Today I can
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Sometimes the most unexpected moments become career-defining. This week brought news that still feels surreal: Natalia Ivanovna, one of Russia’s most respected literary critics, published an extensive review of “The Influencer’s Canvas” on God-Literatury.ru. For context: Natalia Borissovna Ivanovna isn’t just any critic. She’s deputy editor-in-chief of Znamya magazine, holds a doctorate in philological sciences,
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After the autumn break following Omnichannel Hearts, I’m back to intensive writing mode with a project that feels both deeply personal and uncomfortably exposing. The fifth novel has a title now: The Influencer’s Canvas. It’s a story about a young artist who becomes a popular influencer and grapples with whether authentic creativity can survive the
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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.
