Link to my Goodreads author account included with pic
With only a few days left in 2025 (yikes, where has this year gone?) I’ve managed to achieve my Goodreads goal of 30 books on my author account. The great thing about being off work for 2 weeks on a winter break is that I’ve been able to read a lot more than I manage during the daily grind.
My Author Goodreads account is one that I use for writing research books, or ones that I read in the library where I work to be included in book displays.
However, 30 books is not all I have read this year. Aside from my author account, I have a reader account on Goodreads, which I use for books that I read for pleasure. I’ve had this account longer than I’ve had my author account, but it’s a handy way to keep my writing research and day job books separate from those I read for fun.
Anyway, long story short, I have also achieved my Goodreads goal of 30 books on my reader account. This makes a grand total of 60 books read in 2025. Woohoo!
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.
Leilanie Stewart 