Has it really been a week since I last blogged? Oh dear. Well, I have an excuse. I’ve been on half term break. In other words, promoting my latest book, and having family adventures.

A random thing occurred to me, while I was thinking about my recent press coverage: it hasn’t been the first time I’ve done a Valentine’s Day newspaper article. In fact, two of my Valentine’s Day newspaper promos have appeared 23 years apart, both of which have either inspired or promoted two of my books.

On 11 February 2002 I appeared in the Belfast Telegraph for a Valentine’s Day modelling promotion after being approached (scouted?) while shopping in Belfast city centre while I was an undergrad archaeology student at Queen’s University Belfast. This launched a part-time modelling career which helped fund my university tuition – and inspired a lyrical poetry collection, A Model Archaeologist, based on the juxtaposition of two jobs: glamour model and field archaeologist.

On 9 February 2025 I appeared in the Sunday World to discuss my latest book, Love you to Death: Ghost stories for Valentine’s Day.

Here are my two newspaper promos 23 years apart, and my two hardcover books of A Model Archaeologist and Love you to Death.

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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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