Tales from The Subconscious​​

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Being born out of the clandestine romance of her parents meant that Seraphina encapsulated in her an untold story of their love, and her and her twin brother’s birth, and background. These secrets hidden for decades within Seraphina’s subconscious were asking to be let out. They were eventually released, although, at first, by pure chance.  

 

In 2010, while in New York, Seraphina met a man of Scottish ancestral background who befriended her at one of the networking events dedicated to digitalisation of book publishing. Some months later, on the Christmas Eve of 2010, the dream of Seraphina's New York acquaintance about a man and a woman writing a book together that he shared with her prompted their literary collaboration. They teamed up to write a book from the first persons perspectives of the two narrators – a man and a woman. The collaboration, though a short lived one, led Seraphina to finishing and publishing her first book in English which she called ‘My Trickster’ (2011).

 

The book contained several fractured narratives which were presented in the form of the narrated in the first person episodes. In the book, without consciously realising, Seraphina created male archetypes of power which reflected her biological father’s professional and personal ambiguous world. She perfectly and realistically depicted the powerful men she did not have in her immediate environment, yet being present in her subconscious. But the most extraordinary thing was that she, while writing from the female first person perspective as one of the main characters, – Angela Moreaux, – was actually channelling the behaviour of her biological mother.

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In spite of her first book having raised some interest and positive reviews from the readers, Seraphina was not happy with it and, in 2012, took it out of circulation. The reason for the dissatisfaction and unhappiness was the main character of the book. Trying to process her complex feelings towards Angela Moreaux, she spent a whole year re-evaluating and re-writing it. This resulted in the second version of the original publication which Seraphina called ‘A Tricky Game’ (2013).

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Years later, she arrived at a profound realisation that the dream of her New York Scottish acquaintance was not, in fact, about two people writing a book together, but about a woman with specific behavioural traits - Seraphina's biological mother, and a man with the mindset of a Soviet undercover agent, – Seraphina's biological father. The combination that Seraphina unconsciously carried within her due to the fact that she's born a chimera - having more than one genome including her mother's, - and has also inherited her father's professional DNA.

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In December 2013, Seraphina moved to Geneva, Switzerland, hoping to make it her home. The place, although failing to fulfil the original wish, was destined to become a catalyst and an inspirational force for uncovering another secret held in Seraphina’s subconscious.  The truth about her twin half-brother.

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Right after her move, Seraphina compelled to write a series of romantic mysteries, a trilogy, yet again examining the theme of the two narrators – a woman and a man.

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Within the course of a year – 2014 – she finished two books – Головоломка (Puzzled) and Задача с неизвестными (The Unknowns), adding to the series, in 2015, a third book - Загадка Восточного Экспресса (The Orient Express Mystery).  

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All three books featured a young French aristocrat, Luke Edward Allen, and a female journalist of French-Russian descent – Lina Brig.  Lina was partially drawn from Seraphina herself, whilst Luke was drawn from Seraphina’s subconscious images of her twin half-brother. At the moment of writing the book Seraphina was not aware of the fact, yet found it extraordinary that his image, personal characteristics, way of behaving, talking, and thinking came so naturally to her, transmitting themselves with ease on to the pages of her book.​

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