There is something rather curious about all this business of writing.
For years, the feeling has always been the same: stories born in silence, characters living in the mind, places that exist without ever needing to be shown… and an author who, in truth, is almost never there.
Or at least, not in any visible way.
Perhaps that is why it feels strange to say it now, but from this year onwards you can also find Elias Wrenford on social media.
It is not the usual thing. And it will probably never be quite so. Those of you who read me know that I have always had a certain fondness for the discreet, for what is suggested rather than displayed, for the intimacy of a story that is built slowly, piece by piece.
But sometimes stories ask for other forms.
Small scenes. Images that seem lifted from a novel. Fragments that do not quite become chapters, but say more than they first appear to. Places that inspire, atmospheres that linger, phrases that remain floating just a little longer than expected.
And that is precisely what I would like to share beyond the books as well.
Social media does not replace a novel, of course. Nor does it pretend to. But it can become a kind of extension of the same world: a little corner to visit between one reading and the next, a way to follow the trail of stories that have not quite finished being born, a place to accompany me through that very particular process behind every book.
If you have ever felt that a book does not end when you close the final page… then you already know exactly the kind of space I am talking about.
It makes me happy to think that we may now also meet there, in a more familiar and everyday way. Without losing the tone that defines Elias Wrenford, but opening a new window onto that whole universe which so often begins long before the first written word.
So yes: from now on you can follow Elias Wrenford on practically every platform under the same name. A small development, perhaps. But sometimes the small developments are the ones that fit a story best.
And this one, without doubt, is one of them.