A few days ago I received a review of The Wabi-sabi Doll from a reader in Canada, giving the best compliment I’ve had for a book in a while: that they thought the novel read like a true story and hoped that some of the events were fictional. I really gave my main character Kimberly a hard time in that novel, as I joked about with host Kathy Clugston on BBC Radio Ulster when I was discussing the plot of The Wabi-sabi Doll, so I can see why the reader hoped it was fictional, which of course it is.
As a writer, I strive for authenticity in my books, so I’m thrilled that a reader felt the novel read as though it was real. I lived in Japan a long time ago, so I needed to do a lot of research to keep everything up to date and realistic in the story. In non-fiction books, references will be cited at the end; not a requirement for fiction, but in The Wabi-sabi Doll, I decided to reference the sites I used for research as a thank you for the information.
Anyway, if you want to support a humble indie author, you can buy The Wabi-sabi Doll from the links below. Content warning for racism, miscarriage, references to sexual assault, misogyny and domestic abuse. But if you like dark psychological reads, you won’t be disappointed:
Leilanie Stewart 