These are the books that I bought before lockdown to read, but I didn’t realise how time consuming looking after a toddler full time would be! My hubby (also a writer, the author and poet Joseph Robert) is working in the spare room-turned office. In between checking my own work emails and entertaining the babe, I get snatched moments of chipping away at my next novel WIP. This has meant not as much reading time as I would have preferred! I’m keeping my lockdown list in my handbag for portability and to keep chubby little fingers at bay. I might get a quiet reading moment one of these days!
About Leilanie Stewart
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
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