It’s May already! I find it a little scary that we are getting close to the halfway point of 2024 already. Instead of focusing on time passing too quickly, I’d rather keep my fingers crossed for good weather. Do you ever take a moment to ground yourself in the present by noticing the little things around you? Flowers. A bird. Even a snail. Maybe having a young child who points these things out to me everyday helps, but it’s something I try to do by myself as well.

If you’re looking for a good spring read for Mayday, while you’re out enjoying the better weather, why not check out some of my Beltaine reads, and some by a variety of talented authors that my hubby and I publish in our Bindweed Anthologies (formerly Bindweed Magazine). Here’s a summary to help you decide:

Gods of Avalon Road is my debut novel set on Mayday. When friends Kerry and Gavin are tricked into a pagan ceremony on May 1st, they unwittingly resurrect ancient Celtic gods into modern day London. This book gets quite saucy with the pagan debauchery, so bear in mind that it’s strictly for over 18s!

Diabolical Dreamscapes is my strange and surreal short story collection. It opens with a bizarre and creepy story set in spring, Elsie’s Eternal Eden, that was previously published in The Crazy Oik in 2012.

Midsummer Madness 2022 and Midsummer Madness 2023 are two of the biannual Bindweed Anthologies that my hubby and I publish. They are published annually on June 21st, so look out for Midsummer Madness 2024 coming soon…

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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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