It’s almost here. In just seven days, my novel Welcome to Anywhere will be out in the world. After a decade of work, rewrites, doubt, laughter, and midnight rewrites, the story of Billy and the haunted town of Anywhere is finally ready to greet the world.
My second book began as a short story about a boy in a small Zimbabwean town who accidentally walks into a bank robbery. That seed grew into something stranger and more ambitious: a coming-of-age tale where the past refuses to stay buried, where the living and the dead wrestle inside one bewildered teenager, and where history itself feels alive, unfinished, and demanding to be heard.
Welcome to Anywhere is about possession, yes, but also about inheritance – what we carry from our families, our countries, and our collective traumas. Billy’s search for his father and struggle with the ghost in his body became my way of writing about history, unfinished wars, and the sharp humour we use to survive the weight of it all.
The novel will be available worldwide in paperback, hardcover, and eBook on 3 September 2025 … my birthday. You can find full details here at ruzvidzo.com/book/welcome-to-anywhere.
Thank you to everyone who has followed this long journey.
The countdown is on – seven days to go.
