New release
LeoZeit: Schatten
Dark parallel-world fantasy — Leonberg, 1614 & today. Alicia between two eras.
Hardcover · available now
Author of Dark Stories
Anna-Mariia Kostiuk
I write stories in which reality starts to crack.
Author of Dark Stories
I write stories in which reality starts to crack.
New release
Dark parallel-world fantasy — Leonberg, 1614 & today. Alicia between two eras.
Hardcover · available now
Works
Music for the books
News & dates
19 July 2026 · Visit
Leonberg’s Deputy Mayor came to us for dinner: there was «LeoZeit: Schatten», a dance they invented themselves and a Kyiv cake.
July 2026 · Film
The children’s book about courage and magic has become a short film — with its own music and pictures by Vitalii Kostiuk.
December 2025 · Press
The Kostiuk family hands Lord Mayor Tobias Degode a painting of Leo, the Leonberg puppy from the fantasy world of LeoZeit.
13 February 2026 · Press
A meeting in the heart of the town: about books, about Leonberg and about stories that are set right here.
15 November 2025 · Press
The literary map of the town has gained one more work: «Sonja und die Mondfee» was officially presented at the town hall.
1 March 2026 · Film
It was literally a matter of seconds: just before the deadline the film went off to the World AI Film Festival in Cannes.
5 February 2026 · Event
Two copies of „Sonja und die Mondfee“ are now on the shelf of the public library — for anyone to borrow.
17 December 2025 · Novel
A large literary project comes out of Leonberg: „LeoZeit: Schatten“ is the first volume of a trilogy.
Thoughts & stories
4 September 2026 · Music
Fifteen songs in English — released before the book existed. To be heard on YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple Music.
31 July 2026 · Leonberg
Warm noses, calm animals and a path that ends 400 metres further up. An afternoon entirely without a dark story.
22 June 2026 · Game
A small strategy game for the browser — alone against the computer or with someone else, right here on the site.
16 June 2026 · Music
Ten songs to go with the story, with a female and a male voice. Listening samples from the music project that stands on its own.
6 June 2026 · Blog
She had fallen from the third floor. Why a tortoise needs papers in Germany — and how it all turned out.
8 March 2026 · Culture
Three sold-out performances for the anniversary: a dance piece that silenced a whole Stadthalle.
4 March 2026 · Essay
„Die Therapie“, newly published: why millions of people read fear on purpose — and and what a thriller has to do to deliver it.
2 March 2026 · Leonberg
Below the castle hides a Renaissance terrace garden — laid out for a duchess, overlooked by many today.
2 March 2026 · Behind the scenes
Do I write my books with AI? The short answer is no. The longer one also explains how the film came about.
2 March 2026 · Leonberg
Market square, castle, Pomeranzengarten: the places you walk through here are the setting of a fantasy adventure.
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