About the Author
Born in the Nordic forests, Anny grew up surrounded by trees, meadows and bodies of water. In their teens, the forest-dweller began to write a blog about their life, which evolved into a blog about their hobbies. Now they run The Anny Blog with chapters from their stories, playthroughs of games, and reviews and thoughts, known in some circles for consuming localisations so others don’t have to suffer through poor localisation choices.
Anny is a multifaceted writer, inspired by their surrounding nature, social dynamics and societal issues, and a thousand what-ifs of history. They write about various characters in all sorts of situations, their writing ranging from the struggles of the poor to machinations of royal courts, from the aftermath of genocide to finding family. This results in a wide genre breadth, with high and historical fantasy being their most common genre.
Anny was in early 2023 nominated to the Queer Indie’s 2022 Awards in Queer Lit: Youth, and tied in third place, as the author of the webserial Beyond the Horizon.
Aside from putting pen to paper, Anny is also a housespouse and mother, married to a music producing programmer, and attends to the whims of the cat Daisy, a blue tortie that Anny adopted in 2015 when Daisy needed a new home. They have an interest in music, literary science and linguistics.
Learn some more about Anny here.
About the Illustrator
keijumonarkki is a Swedish-Finnish illustrator, who often works on painting for hundred of hours and can make highly detailed art. keiju is inspired by nature and primarily works with fantasy and surreal art. Influences on the art style include Elsa Beskow, Tord Nygren, the series W.i.t.c.h, Yuki Kaori’s series, the manga creating circle CLAMP, and keiju’s creative mother who painted nature landscapes and surrealistic art. The alias keijumonarkki is Finnish and translates to “fairy monarch” so it’s ill-advised to give keiju your real name. One might never know what happens then.
keijumonarkki is the main artist for any art in the work by Anny Borg, and has made the art portraits on this page as well as most of the covers for the listed stories under Novels.
About the Site
The Anny Blog started out as a general blog in Swedish written by someone who didn’t know what to write about or how in 2006. It eventually transferred to Blogger, changed language to English and took on the name Bitter Sweet Feathers, where it by 2008 was primarily about anime.
After a handful of years, in 2011 or 2012, it moved to being self-hosted as a blog under the wider site called AN’s World, referring to a username an-tan that Anny used on social media at the time, and called it The Anny Blog.
In 2013, the self-hosting service had problems, resulting in corrupted files and lost backups, and Anny retained none of their blog posts up until this point.
Although this was a bad year, at the end of 2013, Anny prepared to launch The Anny Blog again, and did so on January 5th 2014. The blog domain now in use was acquired on June 18th, 2016. In the early years, the blog remained primarily anime focused, often with weekly posts, but the frequency lessened in 2017 while expecting a child and has since remained sporadic.
However, to this day, Anny keep the site active and in 2022, the first chapter of a non-canon story, Haunted, was published and in 2025 both Observations Among Thieves and Other Vermin, or The Unfortunate Misadventures of Lord Thadus and I Summoned a Demon, who Made Me Sign a Contract began getting published.
In May 2026, The Anny Blog returned to being self-hosted after 12 years of staying at WordPress dot com.