Really exciting news to share as I found out on November 15th that my yuletide ghost novel, The Fairy Lights, is through to phase 2 of the Author Shout Reader Ready Awards. The finalists will be announced on December 15th and the winners in January. I’m keeping my fingers and toes and anything else that I can manage, crossed!
I was waiting for the good news from March this year, though not expecting anything, so it was a lovely surprise to be notified by email from the Author Shout team. Their judging process included selection for phase 2 based on the quality of the cover, blurb and sample from the ‘Look Inside’ feature. They’re now reading the ePub file of my book, so I’ll be on tenterhooks for a couple more weeks yet. Will let you know.
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.
Leilanie Stewart 