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About the Author

Martin Kostov is a Bulgarian author. The Circus Money is his first novel and the opening of The Offline Years.

He grew up on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and has spent his working life on the other side of the machines this book remembers. He now lives in Sofia. The Offline Years is his adult coming-of-age fiction series about growing up in Bulgaria before smartphones and social media.

Short Description

An adult coming-of-age novel set in early-2000s Bulgaria, where circus money, computer clubs, first crushes, and bad decisions become legend.

Long Description

Bulgaria, early 2000s. The internet is rented by the hour, camera phones are still terrible, and a group of schoolboys around a family-run computer club are about to learn that the fastest way to become legends is to make decisions no adult would approve of.

The Circus Money begins The Offline Years, an adult coming-of-age series about friendship, first love, risk, memory, and the strange mercy of growing up before every mistake could be uploaded.

Book Facts

• Title The Circus Money
• Series The Offline Years, Book One
• Author Martin Kostov
• Genre Adult coming-of-age fiction / Contemporary fiction
• Setting Bulgaria, early 2000s
• Publication Coming soon
• Publisher Offline Years Press

Cover

Cover image coming soon. A high-resolution cover will be available here once it’s finalized.

Contact

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