The Wabi-sabi Doll is published! The Buddha’s Bone series is complete
The Wabi-sabi Doll is officially published today! This is book 2 in the Buddha’s Bone series, but can be read as a standalone novel. It’s available from the following major online retailers:
The series follows Kimberly Thatcher, a Londoner who travels to Japan to teach English, escaping her abusive ex-fiance, and suffers a worse fate at the hands of a fellow English teaching colleague. The sequel picks up with her in a new romance, but dealing with the PTSD from her traumatic first year. If you like dark psychological literary fiction, give this book a go.
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.
Congratulations! It’s always a great feeling when you reach publication after all the hard work of writing, editing and the rest. Best wishes for good sales and reads. 🙂
Leilanie Stewart 
Congratulations! It’s always a great feeling when you reach publication after all the hard work of writing, editing and the rest. Best wishes for good sales and reads. 🙂
Thanks Laura! This one took me ages to write as well, so the feeling is definitely one of relief as much as it’s of excitement. ☺️
Go celebrate asap! I’ll be having a drink for you too. xxx 🙂