Discussing my latest novel, The Wabi-sabi Doll, on BBC Radio Ulster
April in Japan is usually hanami season (cherry blossom viewing) and seeing all the pink blossoms blooming in Northern Ireland has left me feeling rather sentimental about the four years I spent over in Japan when I was teaching English as a second language.
What better way to take a trip down memory lane than to share a bit about my latest novel, The Wabi-sabi Doll, when I discussed it on BBC Radio Ulster show ‘The Ticket’. What does ‘wabi-sabi’ mean? Listen as I chat to host Kathy Clugston about what this Japanese word means, why I wrote a sequel for The Buddha’s Bone, and how my main character, Kimberly, has a tough journey in this psychological fiction duology set in Japan.
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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Excellent that you got to discuss your book on the radio; a dream for authors. Well done you! 🙂
Thanks, it was fun being part of the show. 😄