This morning I randomly had one of those author moments where I thought to myself, ‘I’ve actually had nine books published’. Five novels, three poetry collections and one short story collection, to be precise. Woohoo!
I’ve been a published author since 2009, and even though it was 15 years ago (wow, now I feel old…) I can still remember the excitement of when my very first short story appeared in an online magazine in the US called Blood Moon Rising. The Woman and the Stiff has since been republished in Diabolical Dreamscapes, but that initial excitement at appearing in a literary magazine will never fade.
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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