Andrey Kot's Blog
November 29, 2025
А couple of updates to share
Friends,
I have a couple of updates to share,
First of all, congratulations to the winners of The Krasinski Collapse giveaway. I genuinely hope you’ll find a moment in your busy lives to read the book. Believe me, for an author it means a lot to know that the story has actually reached a real reader, not just a number on a dashboard. I’ll be very grateful for any feedback you’re willing to share —and please don’t be too harsh on me!
The second piece of news is more personal. Yesterday my family and I found ourselves just a few meters away from the epicenter of the shooting at Macy’s in Santa Clara. Any writer is always on the lookout for new experiences to turn into stories, but this is one experience I would gladly have skipped.
When you’re hiding your eight-year-old daughter between racks of clothes while a panicked crowd runs past, it is not a scene from a thriller — it’s simply terrifying. I want to say a huge thank-you to the Macy’s staff who helped guide people out and tried to keep everyone as calm as possible in a very chaotic situation.
Take care of your loved ones, and, whenever you can, try to make the world a little kinder. There is already more than enough darkness in it. Let’s do what we can to keep it from collapse.
— Andrey
I have a couple of updates to share,
First of all, congratulations to the winners of The Krasinski Collapse giveaway. I genuinely hope you’ll find a moment in your busy lives to read the book. Believe me, for an author it means a lot to know that the story has actually reached a real reader, not just a number on a dashboard. I’ll be very grateful for any feedback you’re willing to share —and please don’t be too harsh on me!
The second piece of news is more personal. Yesterday my family and I found ourselves just a few meters away from the epicenter of the shooting at Macy’s in Santa Clara. Any writer is always on the lookout for new experiences to turn into stories, but this is one experience I would gladly have skipped.
When you’re hiding your eight-year-old daughter between racks of clothes while a panicked crowd runs past, it is not a scene from a thriller — it’s simply terrifying. I want to say a huge thank-you to the Macy’s staff who helped guide people out and tried to keep everyone as calm as possible in a very chaotic situation.
Take care of your loved ones, and, whenever you can, try to make the world a little kinder. There is already more than enough darkness in it. Let’s do what we can to keep it from collapse.
— Andrey
November 26, 2025
#1 New Release
The Songs of Adhartach was a #1 New Release in Medieval Historical Fiction on Amazon.
If you grabbed it in the giveaway – I’d be grateful if you shelved it or left a quick rating once you’ve read it.
If you grabbed it in the giveaway – I’d be grateful if you shelved it or left a quick rating once you’ve read it.
November 10, 2025
The Songs of Adhartach Giveaway
Hey everyone!
I’m excited to announce a free Goodreads Giveaway for my novel The Songs of Adhartach — a dark historical saga where faith, betrayal, and the supernatural collide.
Everyone’s welcome to enter the draw and win a free Kindle copy.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
I’m excited to announce a free Goodreads Giveaway for my novel The Songs of Adhartach — a dark historical saga where faith, betrayal, and the supernatural collide.
Everyone’s welcome to enter the draw and win a free Kindle copy.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
October 27, 2025
The songs of Adhartach released
Hello, everyone. It's cloudy in California. it's the most wonderful time to read my new book The Songs of Adhartach on Amazon. Here is a blurb:
AN 800-YEAR-OLD VENGEANCE. A WAR THAT NEVER TRULY ENDED.
Normandy, 1256. When Lady Agnes de la Roche drags a bloodied stranger from the woods, she brings more than a guest into her father’s castle—she invites ruin. The woman, Melanie d’Eville, is as dazzling as she is dangerous, and within days superstition, grief, and a very real evil turn the household against her. An Inquisitor arrives. A rival baron circles. And Count Humbert de la Roche begins to choke on a poison no one can name.
Summoned home, Amaury de la Roche—Templar commander and Agnes’s twin—finds the world he left collapsing. Into this storm walks Brother Adhartach, a sardonic friar clutching a fragment of a forbidden gospel and a ciphered prophecy that refuses to die. It speaks of four who must stand together when the world hangs “by four fragile straws”:
the Sword-brother, the Shaman, the Seeress, and the Sorceress.
AN 800-YEAR-OLD VENGEANCE. A WAR THAT NEVER TRULY ENDED.
Normandy, 1256. When Lady Agnes de la Roche drags a bloodied stranger from the woods, she brings more than a guest into her father’s castle—she invites ruin. The woman, Melanie d’Eville, is as dazzling as she is dangerous, and within days superstition, grief, and a very real evil turn the household against her. An Inquisitor arrives. A rival baron circles. And Count Humbert de la Roche begins to choke on a poison no one can name.
Summoned home, Amaury de la Roche—Templar commander and Agnes’s twin—finds the world he left collapsing. Into this storm walks Brother Adhartach, a sardonic friar clutching a fragment of a forbidden gospel and a ciphered prophecy that refuses to die. It speaks of four who must stand together when the world hangs “by four fragile straws”:
the Sword-brother, the Shaman, the Seeress, and the Sorceress.
October 13, 2025
Award
I’m happy to share that an excerpt from my book The Songs of Adhartach has been longlisted for the Russian literary contest EthnoPero 2025 (“The Ethnic Pen”).
The English edition will soon be released and available to readers worldwide.
The English edition will soon be released and available to readers worldwide.
October 7, 2025
A note to readers
I’m nearing the end of my English translation of The Songs of Adhartach’s Servants.
In Russian, this book already asked a great deal of me—its layered voice, its shifting registers—and now I’m trying to carry those nuances across without losing their shadows or their light.
The story is set in the thirteenth century. It is dark, yes, and there are faint threads of the fantastical, but the heart of it lies elsewhere: in arguments of faith, in the meeting of cultures, and in the quieter work of self-search. If the history is the frame, the inner journey is the painting.
I don’t know how many readers will find this small corner of Goodreads, but if you have: welcome. I’ll share more soon—about choices on the page, and the places the text insists on going.
In Russian, this book already asked a great deal of me—its layered voice, its shifting registers—and now I’m trying to carry those nuances across without losing their shadows or their light.
The story is set in the thirteenth century. It is dark, yes, and there are faint threads of the fantastical, but the heart of it lies elsewhere: in arguments of faith, in the meeting of cultures, and in the quieter work of self-search. If the history is the frame, the inner journey is the painting.
I don’t know how many readers will find this small corner of Goodreads, but if you have: welcome. I’ll share more soon—about choices on the page, and the places the text insists on going.
