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 … Continue reading Being a Hybrid Author
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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 … Continue reading New Year’s Blog
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 … Continue reading Readalong 5
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 … Continue reading Readalong 3
We'll Always Have Venice comes out in less than a week, so I thought I'd give you a few fun hints of what's to come in the story and tell you a bit about the characters while I'm at it. Day 1 Hint: Norah carries a rifle in the last scene Norah York is the … Continue reading 7 Things about We’ll Always Have Venice – Day One
I just (virtually) visited my first book club. I met a lovely group of women who've just read My Christmas Number One and wanted to talk about the characters and the themes and what struck them most about the story. It was incredible. I'm still sparkling from the experience, so I wanted to blog about … Continue reading Book Club!
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 … Continue reading Oh the Irony
Today is Colombian Indepdence Day, known simply as the veinte de Julio (twentieth of July). That means that my debut romance My Christmas Number One has been out for more than ten months now! What, you might ask, do the two things have in common? My Christmas Number One is a different sort of book … Continue reading Happy Veinte de Julio!
I'm currently deep into the edits of my third book (called A Match Made in Venice! I looove the title) and, even though my editor has told me I need to take some of the detail of my research out when it interrupts the flow of the story (facepalm), I thought I'd blog about my … Continue reading Three Rs: Research, Research, Research
It's been a busy month after publication of Italy Ever After and I've been generally busy writing the next two books (which are getting real! It's so exciting!) I'm catching up gradually with the lovely hype that happened around publication day, including some lovely reviews from the blog tour and this publication day episode of … Continue reading Reader Seeks Romance #2
Leonie Mack 