Literary life for me lately has been busy, busy, busy. I realise I haven’t posted an update in 6 days. I normally try to blog every 4 days or so, but the delay has been for a good reason.

I’ve finished another book! Hurray, happy dance!

This one is a collection of ghost stories and is just under 50,000 words – so, about the length of a short novel. I finished the last story on Sunday and spent Monday reading through the whole collection to check for typos and consistency. On Tuesday I began typesetting the paperback and formatting the cover. Yesterday I finished uploading the proof and ordered a copy for my editor. The copy should come in the post next week ready for the red pen treatment.

In the meantime, it’s business as usual. I’m still chipping away at novel WIP#7, which is at 56,858 words, and novel WIP#8, which is at 51,734 words. Those two manuscripts have taken a back seat lately while I prioritised the story collection. It’s about time I gave them some attention.

Next year, I’ll be back to being a one-book woman. All this juggling is too much to keep track of!

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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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