Author: leoniemack
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Meet Didi
The female main character of a Match Made in Venice is Deirdre York (Didi), a level-headed visual merchandiser who lives in London. She’s self-sufficient, pragmatic, unapologetic and ambitious, but, as the story progresses, the reader gets a glimpse of her hidden vulnerabilities and the caring nature she can’t suppress, even when it creates dreaded complications.…
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Publication Day!
It’s finally here! A Match Made in Venice is out today. All books are special, given the amount of heart that goes into each one, and all books are a little different. I started this book at a time when I was quite unsure of myself as a writer and I was exploring a lot…
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The Calm before the Storm
Publication day is always a bit of a whirlwind of thrills and nerves. This time around, I had a big week last week (school holidays, which were really tiring), and also this week (my youngest is scheduled for minor surgery), so today I’m trying to take it easy on purpose, tie up a few loose…
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Countdown to a Match Made in Venice
It’s one week until publication day and there have been some lovely quotes coming in from the early readers! I can’t wait for this story to be out in the world!
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Welcome to Venice!
Venice is most definitely its own character in my next two books, a Match Made in Venice and We’ll Always Have Venice (title TBC but I’m pretty sure that’s going to be it!!!!!) I’ll write more about that as we get closer to publication day, but for now I thought I’d share the reel I…
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Wildest Dreams
I didn’t dare ever hope that this would happen, but Italy Ever After has been a wild success on Amazon. I am so amazed that one thousand readers have rated my book, over half of them giving it five stars. I’m so happy to have reached so many readers with Lou’s story of finding her…
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Oh the Irony
One of the best (and hardest) things about being an author is the constant learning curve. Each time I write a book, I learn not only new stuff about the setting and the background, but also about writing itself. I have always been a writer. I was that kid who wrote reams on dot-matrix printer…
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My Christmas Number One is 1!
On this day one year ago, I became a published author. How strange to think it was only a year ago, but also strange that this little book is already a year old. There is something magical about first books and, although my second book has sold more copies than my first, My Christmas Number…
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A Match Made in Venice
I’m so excited to officially announce my third book, A Match Made in Venice! It’s an opposites-attract romcom with enemies-to-friends-to-lovers vibes and a whole lot of Venice! I had the idea for a romance with a glassmaker as the hero many, many years ago and I’m so pleased with how it came together as a…
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Books, Dreams and Prosecco Festival
The Books, Dreams and Prosecco festival is taking place in the Chick Lit and Prosecco facebook group this weekend! Hosted by the lovely Anita Faulkner, it’s a whole lot of book joy from authors of romantic books of all sorts. My slot is 2pm on Sunday the 12th (UK time), and I’m talking about ‘Creating…
Leonie Mack 