Annabelle Thomas was raised in Alaska as the third child of a stay-at-home mom and a police officer dad. She was homeschooled from a young age along with her eight siblings. Annabelle’s passion for writing was evident in her early years. As a young girl she read an abundance of novels, eventually going on to write some of her own, including a published piece in The Arcadian during her sophomore year. Between her passion for ballet and her passion for writing, Annabelle has succeeded in publishing her very first book, Unwritten pages.
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Unwritten Pages

When the world falls apart, can one book-loving girl rewrite the ending?​
In the busy age of rushing and crazy schedules, Lorelei, a bright 16-year-old, was just trying to stay afloat. She was in the middle of navigating her senior year and book club ownership when disaster struck.
Suddenly, there was acid rain slowly destroying buildings, plants strangling whatever they can reach, and animals made to take over. Lorelei had read enough books to know that someone would step up to save the day.
With friends turning into enemies and magic taking over, Lorelei must decide: wait for a hero, or become one herself?
​In this gripping young adult fantasy debut by Annabelle Thomas, adventure, friendship, and courage collide in a world where even the quietest voices can shape destiny.​
​Turn the page—Lorelei’s story is just beginning.

Why I write

My family has shaped that way I am a lot, and writing is one huge aspect of that. When I take a closer look as to the reasons I write, I see three – to express myself, to use beautiful words, and to escape reality.

I remember laying in bed, after a long day of sibling arguments, family drama, and home-schooled chaos. I would stare up at the roof, ignore the four sisters that I shared a room with, and dream of the most ridiculous stories. Growing up in a house of eleven people meant that solitude was rare, especially when you are homeschooled and share extracurriculars. It’s like I was never without at least one sibling by my side, for the better and the worse. While this shaped me in countless ways, it also made it challenging to carve out my own identity. In a house of so many amazing people, writing had become a space all my own.

In that space, that thirty minutes of nothing but stories running through my head, I found such beautiful sentences. I don’t think people realize how many words are in the English language, over a million! That is a practically endless number of combinations of the most beautiful words. I’ve always been enchanted by the sheer beauty of language—the way a single phrase can evoke emotion, paint vivid imagery, or linger in the mind like a melody. I once had someone describe me as “positively vivacious,” and ever since, I’ve been obsessed with sentences that carry that kind of magic. Words, when thoughtfully strung together, hold a power that feels almost supernatural.

Sentences that are written so smoothly are like magic and magic is the greatest thing I have yet to experience. But magic isn’t just the impossible, it’s in the way words can transform the mundane into something extraordinary. I’ve read stories that transport me to breathtaking worlds full of wonder, and I’ve read books that take the simplest, most ordinary moments and make them shimmer with something special. That’s the beauty of storytelling; it doesn’t just allow us to escape reality, it shows us a new way of seeing it. When life gets complicated, we all turn to something to escape it, whether that be games, food, or something else entirely, my refuge has always been fantasy.

To summarize even though it’s definitely cheesy to say but, I write to give voice to thoughts, shape emotions into words, and build worlds beyond the limits of reality.

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