There are so many tasks that go into a published book, and today, I’m sharing the parts that are currently my most and least favourite parts of the publishing process.
Enjoy!
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).
The September 2024 Saturday Broadsheet
September 14, 2024
Welcome to the September edition of the Saturday Broadsheet. If you read my SWR Tearoom post from September 2, you know all my updates. If you didn’t read it, there’s a link below so that you can (it has pictures 😉 ), but here are the highlights:
I’m still working on How to Marry…, Harriet and the Colonel, and the Oxford Cottage refresh. However, they are progressing very slowly at the moment since taking some time off and then having to do some beginning of the month stuff and catching up on emails and all after getting back to work took a bit of time to complete. I was able to start back to writing this week.
I’ve also been working on getting my backlist, non-KU books added to the collections section of Patreon for those readers who would like to subscribe to read them there, and I’ve added more books to the Leenie B Books Shop on Etsy. There is one other project that I’m working on, but I’ll leave news about that until another time when it’s ready to start sharing.
Needless to say, my writing life is busy!
As mentioned, I took some time off in August. During the last week, my husband and I took three days away from home and visited Yarmouth, NS. It was just a relaxed, no real plans sort of trip, which was lovely, except for ending up sick for a couple of days when I got home. I’m still battling the post virus issues that I’ve had for a couple of years, and it seems three days of extra activity, not eating homecooked food where I know all the ingredients, sleeping in a different bed, and all that goes with travelling was a bit too much. However, it did take three days to get to the too much part so I’m calling that a win as it’s definitely an improvement. 🙂
I think that’s it for my update. Now let’s get to the other regular entries to the newsletter. Make sure you hang around to the end if you want to read the newest installment of the Harriet and the Colonel story.
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Wintery Night in the Park
This image that I found on Depositphotos feels like the story that I’m sharing from today in this post. It’s lonely and quiet. It’s rimmed with shadows that hide many things. And yet, it’s got that light which is chasing away those shadows and making the scene feel a little welcoming.
I’d say this story, Frosted Windowpanes, is like that. There’s a welcome to the scene in which the main character finds himself, but is it a lasting welcome or will the shadows of the past and circumstances of the present snuff out the glimmer of home? I can’t tell you how it happens because that would be spoiling the story. But, this is a Leenie Brown story and touched with inspiration from Persuasion, so you know the ending cannot be bleak, right?
Below is the first chapter of this four-chapter novelette from my Nature’s Fury and Delights Collection. For those who are familiar with my Willow Hall series, you’ll see a few names that should be familiar since Mr. Mullins’s estate is located in Derbyshire near Willow Hall and Kympton.
One more note before I let you read the beginning of the story: Frosted Windowpanes is the free Ream and Patreon read this month, so at the end of the chapter, I will include links to find it on those platforms (you do have to sign up as a free follower to access it there) and links to where the story is available in stores and such.
Enjoy!
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Send summer off with a weekend of reading
This weekend in Canada is Labour Day weekend, just like it is in the US. It’s a three-day weekend (for some) that marks the end of summer because, here in Nova Scotia, school begins after Labour Day.
To celebrate the changing of seasons from carefree summer to scheduled and routined autumn, I have made the first three books in my Marrying Elizabeth series free! They are free all weekend long (until Sept 2)!
And because I had them free, I added them to a multi-author promotion via Bookfunnel — just so there are a few more long weekend read options for you to pick from.
All the books in this promotion are supposed to be sweet and wholesome romances and FREE today and tomorrow. Yes, that’s a day shorter than mine, so don’t delay in checking it out!
You’ll also note that only two of the Marrying Elizabeth books are listed on the landing page at the link above. That’s because there was a max limit of two books that could be submitted. So, after clicking on one of the book on the landing page, just visit the series page on Amazon to see all three free books.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend whether you get it “off” or not!
Happy Reading!
Leenie
