I promised an update on my 1st December post about the Author Shout Reader Ready Awards and I have great news – The Fairy Lights has received a ‘Recommended Read 2024’ award! I got the exciting news yesterday by email from the Author Shout Awards team, which was a lovely surprise. The full list of award winners can be read here.

This is my second award win, since The Blue Man won a Chill with a Books a Premier Readers’ Award in February this year, and also jointly Book of the Month. That makes 2 out of 3 award-winning books in my Belfast Ghosts trilogy. Hurray!

Another of my books was prize-nominated but didn’t win; A Model Archaeologist was longlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize 2014, which led to a contract in 2015 with Eyewear Publishing. After 5 years, the rights reverted back to me, and I’ve since released A Model Archaeologist as a full collection.

The Fairy Lights is still on a 99p Kindle countdown deal for one more day, if any UK readers want to grab a promotional priced copy. It’s a fantastical yuletide novel that’s a good fit for Christmas if you’re looking for a seasonal ghost story – so why not grab a copy while it’s on a discount!

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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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