Anna grew up in Norfolk, UK – that’s where her heart lies. She wasn’t born there however, far from close. She first saw daylight in a town called Elbląg, Poland. Since then, she has lived across the UK.
Anna began writing in primary school. They weren’t coherent stories, and none was ever finished. She wrote in English, which she barely had a grasp of.
Why did you start writing? Who knows, she says. Her memory anchors the reasons in finding herself in an entirely new situation, a different country, with few friends and a wild imagination.
The foundations for A Reverie Tale formulated in early high school. A dream in which Anna saw things so magical she could not let go of once awake. So she indulged. Details were added and a plot line developed, and eventually a story came together. Aged 14, Anna wrote about 100 pages.
The project was abandoned for nearly 10 years. Two degrees, a spell of unemployment, and a global pandemic later, she found myself returning to the story that was once her home and comfort. Days were spent wandering and dreaming. Anna re-familiarised herself with the details and thanked her teen self for writing down plot timelines on 6ft long scrolls of A4 paper sellotaped together. The otherworlds were re-discovered, and the characters matured. A Reverie Tale was back (under its new, current title).
Anna started writing again in August 2020. By April 2021, a first draft was finished. By September 2022, A Reverie Tale had been signed.
Lastly, the boring bit. What does she do, who is she? Anna likes crafts – crochet, paper craft (knitting she’s quite awful at). She works full-time as an archaeologist, sometimes swapping the shovel for an archive.