Tag: romance
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Why ‘RomCom’ can be a reductive word…
I’ve seen it lots of times from readers on social media: ‘Why is this book called a RomCom? I didn’t think it was very funny.’ Or the opposite: ‘This book was so funny, but I didn’t feel the chemistry between the love interests.’ Why the current obsession with coupling romance with comedy? Obviously, it does…
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A Feb 29 proposal gone wrong…
Imagine you’re a wedding planner and your clients are adventure enthusiasts who want to get married at the top of a mountain in Italy. You’re out of your depth; you suggest to your boss that the agency could perhaps work with an adventure travel partner on this one. Then when you turn up to the…
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Announcing Head Over Wheels
The news is out! As well as my destination romances, I’m also writing spicy sports romcom. Sports is one of my favourite subgenres of romance to read, because of the jeopardy, the high-stakes win or lose situations and the big… egos (haha). After getting hooked on the Tour de France and then World Tour road…
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Free Promo Novella
As I’ve got an exciting pivot coming in 2025, I decided to start the year with a bang – including a rather literal one – in the form of a free promotional novella for subscribers to my Substack newsletter! I got it all ready yesterday and it was distracting me from the next important draft…
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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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More Point-of-View Musings
For something so important to the reader experience, it’s sometimes frustrating as an author that there is no right answer to the POV question. Readers have different preferences, although there are some vague broader trends. Often the advice is to use the POV most appropriate to your story, but that advice only helps so far,…
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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 