Not quite a music-related news, but still important (for me) :-)

Last night Amazon confirmed the availability of English translation of my debut novel ‘Salvatio: In the Mist of Dawn’ in digital format:

Since I’m not a native English speaker, I hereby solemnly confess that I’ve used ChatGPT’s assistance translating large swaths of text – a friend suggested me to do so.

This has sped-up things, but just about 25%. In fact most of the text had to be essentially rewritten afterwards – for weal or for woe, the AI doesn’t make a good literary translator (yet?).

Due to my ‘clinical’ attention deficiency I might have missed some bad things. I only hope they are few and far between. I must say I’ve fixed quite a few mishaps of the original Russian text, mostly logical shortcomings.

But please drop me a message if you find mistakes.

The book itself emerged as a by-product of sorts, as the project was initiated as rock opera, gradually mutating into some kind of a drama stage musical, European-style. Recording the full demo/audio version was half-way through when the Russian full-scale invasion in Ukraine began in 2022. As the wildest dystopian fiction spilled, or, rather, poured into reality, the project was put to ice. The records we’ve done by then are still available at Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnpuysxgOK8&list=PL2XYIvyj7tLOfxav9-mZpFf4ZG6L763x-

Sorry, all texts are in Russian.