School’s out for summer, hurray. If, like me, you work in secondary education then you might well be off too. Here in the North of Ireland, we get all of July off, and most of August. Seven or so weeks of holiday is more than enough time for me to squeeze in some literary time in addition to a planned family holiday.
Speaking of which, are you going away somewhere for your summer horrordays or having a spooky staycation? Remember, horror books aren’t just for winter. You can pack some nightmare fuel in your bag to give you a chill on those hot summer evenings.
Here are a few of mine that readers have been snapping up over the past month. Since 80% of my book sales last month were my ghost horror books and 20% my psychological fiction, that means I’m in good company with lots of fellow horror lovers out there.
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 