It’s time for a change! Here’s my latest author photo. I needed something that suggested, yeah this is a spooky chick, lol. This pic strikes the balance between ‘ghost and psychological horror’ author and ‘experimental poet’. Or maybe I’m just telling myself that it does. Well, anyway, I have a tan. Plus, I look better in red lippy. Who doesn’t look better in red lippy? Hahaha!

Author branding is hard. As a multi-genre author, it’s sometimes challenging to meet all the requirements of my books. I write experimental poetry, but I also write urban fantasy, as well as ghost horror and psychological literary fiction. How to convey all that in one photo, or one logo, or one tagline, or one website? As my own publicist, I certainly do my best.

Here’s an old author profile photo taken on October 31 2014 to promote my short story, Zombie Reflux, which is now republished in Diabolical Dreamscapes. My latest photo above doesn’t look too different a decade later. Fyi, I don’t use filters in my author photos, just natural lighting. Maybe I’ve got a ‘Portrait of Dorian Gray’ thing going on, ahahaha! Just kidding. My soul is pure, not evil!

Posted by on May 25, 2024 in Biography 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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  1. Mary Anne Abdo's avatar Mary Anne Abdo says:
    May 25, 2024 at 3:21 PM

    Very dramatic photo, love it.

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