Leonie Mack

Author: leoniemack

  • Being a Hybrid Author

    With one week to go until Berlin Calling is released, I wanted to share a little more about my author journey and the experience of being a creator in the current climate of the publishing industry. These thoughts won’t be particularly organised, but hopefully they’ll give my followers some context and maybe some other writers…

  • New Year’s Blog

    Happy new year to you all! Wishing you a 2023 full of small things and big things that make you think and feel and precious people to share the moments with. I have a long list of things I need to be doing, but I’m going to quickly blog to start the year. I’m feeling…

  • Romcom Views: Love in the Villa

    I am extremely pleased with the proliferation of romcoms arriving on Netflix and I finally feel like I will always find something to watch. I’m so happy to see romantic films being made that I can usually tolerate quite a lot of disappointment in the story before I admit I didn’t enjoy it much, but…

  • Readalong 8 – Chapters 23-End

    Today is the día de las velitas in Colombia! I wrote a blog post about it back in 2020, when the book was newly published. She was going to write a whole album before this was finished and she wouldn’t be able to release it because it would prove he was right and a broken…

  • Readalong 7 – Chapters 20-22

    Ah, remembering how much I enjoyed writing the discussion with Gordon, too! There’s conflict there, but I really enjoyed how constructively they talked and giving Gordon some reasons for his behaviour. He redeems himself a little, of course, especially when he says this line: Just don’t expect me to ever forgive him. This is the…

  • Readalong 6 – Chapters 16-19

    …the song had been cut straight from his soul. So many favourite quotes from these chapters!! Cara and Javi are goners, falling in love while still thinking they are resisting. I love this bit of a romance! And maybe I should have got commission from the Colombian tourist board for this section, too haha. One…

  • Launching Lilo

    It’s cover reveal day for Berlin Calling and the pre-order is live! You can check out the listing here. It’s currently only available on Amazon or in paperback, but I will be opening the ebook up to other retailers after an initial 90-day period in Kindle Unlimited (Amazon requires exclusivity for independent authors to have…

  • Readalong 5 – Chapters 13-15

    Today’s section is absolutely my favourite bit! The whole story pivots at this point. When I was planning, this was one of the first scenes that came together fully, so everything grew around it. We are starting to find out more about the song, ‘Nostalgia’ and why it means so much to Javi (even though…

  • Readalong 4 – Chapters 10-12

    We’re just about halfway through the book, which is interesting, because most of my favourite bits are still to come… We have had our first iguana and Christmas is growing more and more unfamiliar to Cara. Poor old Javi is all grown up and he’s not ready to admit it, yet. ‘I’m not good with…

  • Readalong 3 – Chapters 6-9

    Sorry it was a long section today! But at least you have Cara’s backstory, now, and some more complications! You also got to meet the most fun character in the book, who is of course Javi’s precocious daughter Bea. She gets all the best lines! Permanent injuries – physical and psychological – weren’t a party…