I’m fortunate this week to be away for a family holiday in sunny Spain. I’m spending some quality family time with my hubby and our little dude away from rainy Northern Ireland. July temperatures back home have been around 13 or 14°C, so we’re all glad to be getting some much-needed vitamin C. Costa Dorada has been 30° or thereabouts everyday. Lovely.

When your holiday read matches the colour of your bikini!

I was up early this morning for a cuppa on the balcony while the guys were still in bed. I’m currently reading ‘The truth about keeping secrets’ by an author I hadn’t read before, Savannah Brown. I’m enjoying it, but I don’t find the protagonist voice to be that of a high schooler; more like a savvy, world-wise twenty something. Then again, it’s a thriller aimed at adults and I don’t think too many of the target readership would be interested if written in a tight POV from a teenage perspective.

Gratuitous book promo shot at sunset

Aside from sunning myself on hotel loungers, catching up on reading and playing with the little adventurer in the pool, I haven’t been doing any writing – but there’s always time for some gratuitous book promo. I carry first chapter samples of all of my novels around as they’re easy to use for promotional purposes. Check out the sunset photo above that my hubby took. It was breezy, so I thought my hair blowing would’ve made me look like a banshee, lol, but the snapshot didn’t turn out too badly. Magic hour for the win.

That’s all for now, until I’m back home. Sometimes it’s good to take a break from the normal routine. Sun, sea, sand and sangrias are restorative for the soul too. Catch ya later!

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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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