Author: Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

Music Monday: Listen to Your Heart

This song seemed appropriate for this Monday since my book, Listen to Your Heart, will be published later this week. I have to say the title for the book came from a little card my friend Kathleen made for me — it is the picture that has posted with the story each chapter — but this song often ran through my brain as I was writing. Could this song be a theme for one of the characters in the story? I don’t know. Parts of the song seem to speak of Anne and others of her mother. What do you think?

“Listen to Your Heart Lyrics by DHT (slow Version).” YouTube. Posted by dioxigen92 March 12, 2011.

Music Monday: Falling by Keri Noble

I enjoy when someone takes a beautiful song and combines it with a beautiful story (like in this video). The sentiments in the song, Falling, seem to ring true to the story line of North and South. Both Mr. Thornton and Miss Hale seem lost as to what is happening between them. Mr. Thornton admits to it first and eventually, Miss Hale comes around to his way of thinking–she is as incomplete without him as he is without her because they have fallen in love.

“North and South – Falling.” YouTube.Video created and posted by Danielle Hernandez March 30, 2008.

Same Name, New Look

I learned some new things this weekend!

[ Thanks to the awesome live chat help people at bluehost.com and the many excellent videos and articles about how to do almost anything on wordpress ]

I learned how to point from one site to another, how to export and import files, and how to migrate subscribers as well as a few other things.

[ Did you know you had migrated? 🙂 ]

I admit that I am quite proud of my non-techy self at the moment because despite a small error that lead to a time-consuming clean-up,

[ I hit the import button too many times and spent hours deleting extra files, comments and pictures ]

it looks like leeniebrown.com is up and ready to roll at least on a basic level. I will be spending some more time learning the new features and playing with things as time goes by, but for now we are ready to post again.

Aside from the obvious appearance change, there are a couple other changes you might notice. During the shift over of files from the former site, I decided to do some cleaning and some older posts hit the recycling bin.

[ But, I kept a copy of your encouraging comments. I really do enjoy hearing from my readers. ]

I also know that before this month is out Listen to Your Heart will be published, which means it will have to be removed from this site. So, I have already eliminated many of the chapters. However, there is a link to where the previous chapters can be read at the beginning of Chapter 12 and there will continue to be a link at the beginning of each chapter until the time comes to publish.

Please be aware that as I play with things and learn how to use new plugins and features, things may shift around. Hopefully, the disruption will be minor and will add to the functionality of the site both for me and for you.

Now, to start working seriously on this week’s posts…all that website work time has put me behind schedule. First up, what will I post for tomorrow’s Wordless Wednesday and what will happen with Philip and Lucy in this week’s Thursday’s Three Hundred? Looks like it’s going to be a busy afternoon.

Old Clapham Church, London 1750

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“Miss Tolson?” From a window in the church, Philip Dobney had seen the lady enter the graveyard and was worried when she had stayed for so long. For the past few minutes, he had been watching her weep from the window as the sermon he had been practising sat neglected on a pew a few feet away. He knew that grief was a demanding master who ran roughshod over many, sometimes, leading them to consider all sorts of things they would not have considered when in a happier state. And it was always strongest at first, so he knew that Lucy’s grief was great. It had been but a few days since Mr. Tolson had been buried. It was the first service of that sort which he had performed since accepting the living here in Kympton.

[from And Then Love]

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The Refrigerator Door: Loving Jesus, a Poem by Josiah Lynch

My sister sent me this poem yesterday. Her son, who is in grade six, was given a task of writing about a picture. The picture he wrote about was a picture of Jesus holding a lamb. This is what he wrote.