I kicked off the two week school Easter holiday today with a bit of silly seasonal fun: an Easter book stack challenge. I recently got this tank top showing Ostara holding a spring hare and an egg to celebrate rebirth, and thought I’d recreate the scene with my 11 published books in a stack, alongside a chocolate egg. Why not?

No chocolate eggs or books were hurt in the making of this video, lol.

Work has been busy so it’s good to have downtime at last. The past week I’ve been editing the short stories that my creative writing sixth formers have been working on for a forthcoming published anthology of their work. It’ll be a nice memento of their hard work in the group since October last year, and their contributor copies should make a nice gift as they go on study leave ahead of their AS-level exams.

Even though it seems the gorgeous weather of the past two weeks has finally changed to rain today (sod’s law), I’m looking forward to some active family adventures over the next fortnight. I’ll be buying some hiking boots ready for mountain adventures coming up soon. Let’s see if I’m fit enough.

I might not be online as much as normal, though I’ll try to intermittently post updates about all things bookish, as and when I can.

So, in the meantime, Ostara greetings!

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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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