Tag: books
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What’s Coming in 2025
2024 was a great year, but I don’t feel the need to make lists or analyse achievements or even reflect much on high and low points. I’m mainly super content to sit behind my computer and make up fake people who fall in love and the fact that I brought characters into the world this…
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Why I’m not freaking out about AI
I apologise for the click-bait title and also for the fact that the first thing I’m going to say is: I AM freaking out about AI a little bit. I’ve also been trying recently to be more positive and upbeat about things in general, especially because it’s clear to me that I’ve had a lot…
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A Wedding in the Sun Day!
Today’s the day!!! I’m so proud of this book and I really hope it reaches lots of readers. Not only is this my funniest, with lots of capers and misadventures, Jo is also my favourite female main character ever. She’s tough and funny and honest, comfortable with herself, but also a work-in-progress, like all of…
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Confessions of a Romance Author
In my opinion, the romance genre is wider and more varied than any other, as evidenced by the various labels the publishing industry has used in recent years, each of them reductive and most of them patronising. The genre encompasses ‘women’s fiction with romantic elements’ (who are they to say only women can read books…
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Me, a Reader
It’s definitely true that the best way to learn to be a writer is to read first. I devoured books as a child and then again when I discovered romance in my late teens. As life got busier, I read almost exclusively romance, the tension of the developing relationship dragging me in no matter what…
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The Third Year of My Christmas Number One
My debut novel turned three on 10 September and it’s currently having its little yearly resurgence at Christmastime. This time we might actually make it to 1,000 ratings on Amazon which would be a huge milestone for this little book that took me on a long journey in many different ways. Although it wasn’t the…
Leonie Mack 