Events

January 2nd changed how I think about Russian audiences. Twenty people gathered at Ibis Hotel for experimental book presentation. Expected polite listening. Got intense engagement instead. Three-station format worked perfectly. Started in artificial darkness, train sounds filling the room. Read opening scene where Alexei wakes with amnesia. Watched faces change as story hit different people […]

Kaliningrad gets an unusual literary event this January. I’m bringing Blank Spots home in a completely new format. January 2nd, 1 PM at Ibis Hotel. We’re creating an immersive journey through the novel’s structure. Three stations, each representing a different stage of psychological recovery. The MC wakes up on a night train with amnesia, carrying

Spent Wednesday morning at 5am Writing Club in Kemptown Bookshop. Twenty writers, silent session, sunrise through the windows. The kind of thing that sounds insane until you try it. Cathy Hayward started these sessions in 2023 after regularly waking at five to write herself. Wondered if other local writers did the same. Turns out they

Spent last night at Harbour Hotel listening to TJ Klune, V Castro, Keith Rosson, and George Morris De’Ath discuss horror and queer fantasy. The kind of evening where you leave with more questions than answers, which feels right for the genre. V Castro talked about body horror as cultural memory, how physical transformation reflects immigrant