Stephanie Boddy - horror writer and author

WHO IS STEPHANIE BODDY?

At just ten years old, everyone knew there was something a little bit different about Stephanie. Most ten year old girls in the 1980’s were playing with Barbie dolls and watching Thunder Cats. But Stephanie would want nothing more than an early night to hide under her duvet with a torch and read the latest Stephen King novel she’d stolen from her brother’s bookshelf. Stephanie would be the child invited to sleepovers, to scare all the other children with ghost stories she’d been told by her uncle about the house he used to live in on Poultney Road.

English was always Stephanie’s favourite subject, and from a young age, maybe seven or eight, she knew that she wanted to be a published author. Entering (and quite often), winning poetry and short story competitions, Stephanie was always putting pen to paper. Even at the age of eight, she wrote and read at her grandfather’s funeral, then at her nans, and from then on a quite morbid association, she has written and read at almost every funeral she has ever attended since then, either poetry, or eulogies.

Her degree in Media & Journalism at the University of Portsmouth, got her marketing and PR positions throughout the media industries. Butafter a couple of years of working for other people, she saw a gap in the market and the potential to grow on her own, thus starting her own freelance copywriting and proofreading business called, Make Sure it’s Write. This supported her writing career and allowed her to write her first novel, The House on Poultney Road which she published in in January 2013.

Selling more than 1’000 copies in the first twenty-four house, The House on Poultney Road hit the number one download spot on Amazon.

Stephanie promoted her book by traveling the UK doing book signings, ghost hunts with the likes of Most Haunted, Yvette Fielding, Karl Beattie, Fred Batt, to name a few. The hunts were eye-opening, and not mention, great fun.

Due to popular demand, Stephanie wrote a sequel to The House on Poultney Road, called It Found Me. She followed these two books up with two fictional novels, The Secret People and Gathering Darkness before taking a career break to raise her two young children.

In the interim, Stephanie has written for The Horror Honeyz, The London Horror Society, Steph’s Little Blog of Horrors, and Movie Pilot.

2024 is an exciting year for Stephanie, with two books on the horizon, and an opening back into the industry, keep up to date with future events, books, hunts and launches by signing up to Steph’s mailing list.