Leonie Mack

Tag: writing

  • What to write next…

    I was that kid who, at nine years old, said I wanted to be an author when I grew up. I wrote a mostly-finished sci-fi fantasy when I was fifteen (okay, I didn’t quite finish it, which probably says something about the psychology of writing). I wrote my first romcom at twenty-one (it has some…

  • ANOTHER Publication Day

    This year has been a wild ride, with three books out in quick succession, plus one getting a paperback print run within those same months. On top of all of that, I’m back ‘home’ in Australia for the first time in seven years. It’s been a lot to process. Well, today is the third of…

  • 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…

  • Why two publishers?

    Now the news is out that I have two sports romcoms coming with Bedford Square Publishers, as well as my travel romances continuing to be published with Boldwood, I thought I’d take a moment to explain what led to this situation. It’s something of a natural experiment, as the two publishers have opposite approaches to…

  • Cover Reveal for Head Over Wheels

    It’s just three months and one day until Head Over Wheels!! I’m calling it the ‘Grand Départ’ like the Tour de France haha. So here is the beautiful cover! For some more background on the cover development, read on. I am utterly thrilled with the cover for Head Over Wheels. My publisher engaged the extremely…

  • Shiny New Substack

    Did you know there is a secret epilogue for A Taste of Italian Sunshine? Rumours of a deleted scene from A Wedding in the Sun also may or may not be true… (They’re true). You can discover all by joining my brand new Substack. To the lovely people who subscribe to this blog, you have…

  • 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,…

  • Crisis of Confidence (and other frustrations)

    Writing books and more specifically getting them published is an activity that exposes the author to all sorts of things they might not have prepared themselves for. Books then belong to readers in a way (or at least readers get that impression), where reader expectations meet market complexity and then I get lost in my…

  • 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…

  • Music and Writing

    Ever since I was a child dreaming up stories, music has always triggered ideas for me. I tend to have a few songs that get me in the zone for each book, as well as music that’s woven into the story. It’s fun to listen back over my music and note my fluctuating favourites and…