Local author Anne Greenwood Brown has been writing hit novels since 2011, with her most recent being the trilogy of the “Lies Beneath” books. These books kickstarted Brown’s career after the many submissions of stories and ideas to local companies and agents. Random House was interested in her pieces and decided to take the novel to publish. Brown writes her stories from personal experiences along with having a wild imagination. Brown wants her readers to have an escape when reading her books, and certainly some readers in Stillwater do.

Brown knows that it is a long and nagging process for a book to be published, and that is only if a publishing company is intrigued by the story. Once the story is published, she is not guaranteed a large amount of proceeds from the book sales.

Dealing with these drawbacks is certainly daunting, not to mention movies are not guaranteed to be based on hit novels. Brown, regardless the circumstances, still continues to write for her fans, readers, and the general public.

An author is not something Brown initially saw herself as. Rather, she sees herself as being someone with a good imagination that enjoys writing stories for fun. Brown shows her appreciation for her followers by writing a story that will provide them both entertainment and an escape from their everyday lives.

“I just write the story I want to read and hope there are others lie me somewhere out there,” Brown said.

Living in Stillwater, Brown enjoys writing her stories about people. Her most reoccurring theme being where someone starts in a bad place and needs to overcome it. Some of her other story ideas came from news segments, YouTube clips, or from people she sees on the street.

Some authors say story ideas are born everyday, everywhere, including dreams; the fact being that was the case for the start of Brown’s trilogy, “Lies Beneath.”

“The idea actually came from a dream. I had been working on a novel with normal people set on Lake Superior when I had a dream about one of the characters diving off the rail of a boat and bursting out with a tail. I woke up in the middle of the night with the character saying in my head, ‘I hadn’t killed anyone all winter, and I have to say I feel pretty good about that,’ and that became the first line of the novel,” Brown explained.

Brown provides the community with entertainment that will appeal to all ages, and she will continue writing stories for years to come. Brown’s current piece of work is about a girl who is on juvenile probation and a hockey player who is dealing with the tragic death of his sister and girlfriend. The two meet and try to help each other through a difficult time in their lives. As Brown continues to entertain local readers, we will eagerly be waiting for her next piece of art.