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Four launch days in ten months, none of them glamorous: holding the first copy with the cezve going, a second launch two days after the first, a dashboard refreshed more often than I will admit. Take fourteen was the attempt where I managed to say thank you. This topic is the gap between a book existing and anyone knowing.

8 entries, newest first.

2026

Me on the balcony after the release, laptop and coffee on the little table, the ridge behind the town.
 

Ghosts in the wires

· Three months of evenings are public now, along with a list of everything in the machine I still cannot read.

Me smiling with a coffee cup in the green kitchen, phone recording from the windowsill.
Ternary Dreams

Take Fourteen

· The morning after launch: a propped phone, a green kitchen, and thirteen failed attempts at saying thank you.

Me holding my printed copy of Ternary Dreams on launch day.
Ternary Dreams

Ternary Dreams is out

· Launch day for Ternary Dreams: what the work asked, what I am proud of, and quiet thanks to the early readers who went first.

Me at the oak desk, lifting a folder.
Ternary Dreams

What launch week actually looks like

· An honest account of a self-published launch week: a modest trickle, a refreshed dashboard, and one reader email that outweighed the rest.

Me smoothing proofs at the desk, radio glowing.
Ternary Dreams

Two weeks out

· In two weeks Ternary Dreams meets the world. The first time the title and a real date sit together on this blog.

Me holding my copy of Der Buzzer UVB-76, another book on the table.
UVB-76 - The Buzzer

Der Buzzer UVB-76 Is Out

· A second launch in two days. Quieter pride, a wry calendar, and a Siberian signal that kept me company through the drafts.

Me holding my printed copy of Secret Dawn Among the Stars on launch day.
Secret Dawn - Among the Stars

Secret Dawn Among the Stars Is Out

· Launch day. Holding the printed book for the first time, thinking about what a 1985 sealed hull asked of the work, and saying thank you.

2025

Me holding the first printed copy of Ivanov's Ghost.
Ivanov's Ghost

Holding the First Copy

· The first printed copy of my debut novel arrived this morning in Bishkek. I sat with the cezve and tried to believe the years had led here.

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