Or she may put you in a book and kill you. At least this is what it says on my favourite writing mug. A colleague bought this for me during a work Secret Santa six years ago and it’s a firm favourite for my caffeine fix while I write.

Speaking of writing, did I mention my good news? I finally finished my ghost horror novel WIP after 3 on-and-off years, during which I had writer’s block not once, but twice. Yikes. Of course, while struggling with my writer’s block on this particular project, I stayed productive by finishing and publishing my second short story collection, Pseudologia Fantastica, my third short story collection, Love you to Death and my sixth novel, The Wabi-sabi Doll. I guess that’s the reason why I started writing ghost novel WIP #7 back in May 2023 and I have only just finished it in April 2026.

Now that I’ve finished ghost novel WIP#7, does that mean I’m taking a writing hiatus? Of course not! I always have a WIP on the go; my latest is novel WIP#11, which is a literary horror that I started in November 2025. I’m currently at 17k words, since I started writing this alongside finishing novel WIP#7, but now that it has my sole focus, I think my word count might jump considerably. Here’s hoping.

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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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