Wow, where did the time go? It’s three days to release day and then my latest book baby, The Buddha’s Bone, will spread its wings and fly out into the great, wide world.

Ha ha, indulge me a bit with the cheesiness there. In all honesty, this is a milestone for me. It isn’t my first novel, as my debut came out in 2019. it isn’t even my first book, as I’ve had poetry collections published too. But this book marks the first baby step as my own publisher. Much went into setting up my own business behind the scenes, aside from simply the writing side. The Buddha’s Bone is the finished product of a whole year of rewriting, editing, cutting scenes, learning to typeset, designing a cover, buying my own ISBNs from Nielsen and registering my books with the British Library and other legal deposit libraries in the UK – and the list goes on. Anyway, soon it’ll be over to you as a reader. I do hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Posted by on October 22, 2021 in Novels and tagged , , , .

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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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