Amie Simons

Amie Simons is a British novelist living in Asturias, on Spain's northern coast, where mountains meet the Atlantic in a landscape that feels, at times, divine.

Her background spans creative writing, psychology, education, and disaster relief — experiences that have given her an instinct for the moments that change people irreversibly.

She is fascinated by self-knowledge: how understanding ourselves brings us closer to understanding what it means to be human. Writing literary fiction with speculative elements lets her return to the questions that preoccupy her most — how our past shapes our present, what transcends us, what unites us, and what holds us together during difficult times.

Her debut novel, The Animation of Aurelia Bird, is complete and seeking representation.

The Animation of Aurelia Bird

A Debut Novel of Literary Speculative Fiction

Jen James hasn't written a word in ten years — not since her mother came home from Lucidious, an artist retreat where creativity is studied like a science, and stopped being afraid to die.

Now Jen is going there herself. She wants to know what happened. What her mother learned. Why she chose painting over survival, and over her.

But Lucidious has other plans. Its head researcher, the acclaimed pianist Aurelia Bird, lies comatose following a car accident — and through the Dream Machine, consciousness technology developed at Lucidious, Aurelia makes an urgent request. She wants Jen to enter her memories and write her life story.

Inside Aurelia's memories, Jen begins to understand that Lucidious isn't studying creativity at all. And as a catastrophic storm closes in — threatening both Aurelia's life and the last painting Jen's mother ever made — she realises that Aurelia hasn't chosen her at random. The answer to why lies in a memory Jen hasn't yet reached.

The Animation of Aurelia Bird is a novel about art, grief, and the echo of one life within another.