After months of writing, revising, waiting, and anticipating, I can finally share the news that “Anonymous Letters” is now available to readers worldwide on Amazon. This feels like releasing a bird I’ve been nurturing—watching it take flight brings both exhilaration and a curious sense of loss as the story now belongs as much to its readers as it does to me.
The journey from initial concept to published novel has been long and winding. What began as fragments written during those strange, suspended days of lockdown gradually coalesced into something more substantial—a psychological mystery about perception, isolation, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of uncertainty. Anna’s investigation of mysterious letters about the village of Dorimore became, for me, an exploration of how we navigate realities that resist definitive interpretation.
There’s something particularly fitting about this novel reaching readers as autumn deepens into winter—a season of fog and changing light that mirrors the atmospheric conditions of the fictional coastal town where Anna’s story unfolds. The boundary between known and unknown grows permeable in November, just as the distinctions between reality and imagination blur throughout the narrative.
For those who’ve followed my creative journey through this blog, you’ve already glimpsed fragments of the process—from early drafts sketched in marble quarries to revisions inspired by foggy mornings in Edinburgh, from character insights that emerged during walks along Dover’s white cliffs to structural breakthroughs that came while wandering among Venice’s labyrinthine canals. The novel bears traces of all these experiences, transformed and reconfigured through imagination’s alchemy.
To hold the finished book feels surreal after living with these characters for so long in the private space of my mind. Anna, particularly, has been my constant companion through countless drafts, her curiosity and vulnerability shaping my understanding of how we make meaning in ambiguous circumstances. I hope readers will find in her a complicated, compelling guide through Dorimore’s mysteries.
If you’re interested in exploring this story of fog-bound villages, unsettling letters, and the thin boundary between perception and reality, you can find “Anonymous Letters” here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F3K12FG3
My deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported this project in its various stages—the friends who read early drafts, the editors who helped refine the manuscript, and most especially you, the readers who engage with these words and bring them to life through your own imagination. A story isn’t complete until it finds its audience, and I’m profoundly grateful that “Anonymous Letters” can now begin its journey into the world.
“A book is a message in a bottle, cast into the vast ocean of readers in the hope it might wash ashore on the sand of a sympathetic mind.” (This metaphor, variously attributed to several writers, feels particularly apt as I send this novel out into the world, unsure where or how it might resonate)
— Anastasia