My YA debut novel, Swallows of Mostar, finally has a release date.

On fourth of November 2025, you are going to have a chance to meet Mirna and Franka!

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Two years after she moved to Mostar, a historic small town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, eighteen-year-old Franka Garcia still struggles with loneliness, language barriers, and terrible grades. After she accidentally falls off the famous Old Bridge, Franka is rescued by Mirna, a wickedly intelligent, but exasperated teenager obsessed with cliff diving. 

Despite training all her life and frequently besting her peers, being a girl means Mirna can never participate in the centuries-old tradition of diving off the Old Bridge. But stubborn and determined Mirna won’t give up so easily. 

After Franka’s near-perfect accidental dive, Mirna reluctantly takes on the challenge of teaching her all she knows about cliff diving. If Franka and Mirna want to compete, they must enact their unorthodox plan to take down the patriarchal system forbidding them from diving. Falling in love was never part of the plan.

Yes, I am very excited and so happy to see this book I’ve been working on since 2021 out in the world, but I am also so scared. Will you like it? Will you even read it? Will you read it and hate it so much I become the laughing stock of the internet and people make two-hour-long video essays about me?

Probably not.

I’m not interesting enough for it. Unless you easily find my Tumblr (but that’s more sad than it’s juicy).

I’ll talk about it more in the upcoming weeks. I want to tell you about Bosnia and Hercegovina, about Mostar, about Neretva, about the writing process. I hope you will follow along to this journey with me.

And, as a little teaser for the end: Every chapter of the book was named after a local song. Some of them good, some of them strange, some popular, some only known by a handful of people.

However, they are all a bit on-the-nose when it comes to the plot of the chapter that was named after them, so maybe you can figure out what’s going to happen to Mirna and Franka.

Looking forward to sharing more of this story with you soon.

Love you all ❤