Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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  • Literary life for me lately has been busy, busy, busy. I realise I haven’t posted an update in 6 days. I normally try to blog every 4 days [...]

    Another book finished! Publication forthcoming in 2025

    November 14, 2024
  • This month I’m back to teaching creative writing. It’s a new venture that coincided with the new moon on 2nd October. If ever there [...]

    A new literary venture – back to teaching creative writing

    October 8, 2024
  • The countdown to Halloween is on, now that it’s October. It’s my favourite themed season; what horror author wouldn’t love all [...]

    October writing update

    October 4, 2024
  • The other day, my phone decided to pop up a memory. It was taken a number of years ago, when I was pregnant with my son and reading through the [...]

    How do children affect writing time?

    September 30, 2024
  • A few days ago, a reader began to binge-read Diabolical Dreamscapes. They found my book through sponsored ads, which I was able to see through [...]

    Getting bad book reviews and ratings – keeping a level head

    September 17, 2024
  • Fifteen years ago when I published my first short story, The Woman and the Stiff, in an online magazine called Blood Moon Rising, I remember the [...]

    Why is there a stigma about writing horror?

    September 6, 2024
  • We’ve all heard it: the best thing to recover from a hectic lifestyle is taking some ‘me-time’ to reset. That can be many [...]

    Why writing time is me time

    September 2, 2024
  • 2024 has been a slow literary year for me. After the time pressure I put myself under in 2022 and 2023 to complete my Belfast Ghosts trilogy, I [...]

    Motivation to finish my ghost horror novel first draft

    August 29, 2024
  • Our family holiday abroad is over for another year, but that doesn’t mean I’m back to the day job yet. I still have another 6 weeks [...]

    Holiday over – back to the writing desk

    July 20, 2024
  • Now that we are on the other side of the solstice here in the northern hemisphere, it’s officially summer. Hooray! I’m not going to [...]

    Summer writing update

    June 24, 2024

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