Merry Christmas in July! (Time Sensitive)

Click the image or the link below to be taken to a page full of sweet, clean and FREE holiday romances.

Hey, all! It’s July 25th. In just five months it will be Christmas! But why wait to treat yourself to some Christmas sweets? I’ve been included in this group of sweet and clean holiday romances that are free TODAY (and maybe tomorrow… check the price before you buy).

You’ll notice that my book (A Very Mary Christmas) is the only Regency romance in the group – leave it to me to be different. LOL 😉

Just a reminder, the price on Two Days Before Christmas, as mentioned yesterday in my Story Connection post, is on sale until tomorrow.

Please feel free to share this far and wide and help spread the Christmas in July Cheer. 🙂

Leenie


FREE books? Yes, please. (It’s a JAFF bonanza of freebies)

For ONE DAY ONLY = June 28, 2024, you can download up to 58… yes, 58!.. free Jane Austen FanFiction books! Just go to this link and then click on the book images to discover where you can download a free copy of that book.

I am sharing this a little early for those of you who live on my side of the international date line. I do know that today is not Friday for us. 🙂 I wasn’t planning to share about this promotion until tomorrow which is when it will be Friday for me.

However, I realized, about half an hour ago because that’s how my brain works, that in Australia, it’s already Friday. So, I’m sending this a little early just to give our fellow readers from the other side of the date line time to load up on books.

** While the books listed are only guaranteed to be free for one day, I know some authors have set them free for a bit longer just to accommodate all the various time zones and to allow for some of us who don’t open emails as quickly as others do. (Yeah, that’s me. I look at email once a day, so if it’s not in my inbox when I look, I’m not seeing it until the next day at the earliest.) So some or many or even all of the books might already be free, and if you find this email a day late, give the books a try. You may still be able to download many of them.

I hope you find some fun reads in this lot of books. Maybe, you’ll even discover a new-to-you author in the process.

Feel free to share this event with your friends, but remember the only guaranteed free day is Friday, June 28, 2024.

Happy Reading!

Leenie

CLICK HERE to be taken to the promotion page for links to each book.

One Shaky Step Forward

I’ve done something new. I’ve published a non-fiction book. It’s a writing journal in which I have taken excerpts from several of my books (11 to be exact) and used them as illustrations for what the scripture tells us godly love is like.

While the book’s genre might be a new one for me to publish in, the parts of me that went into creating it are not. I can see how God joined together my years of writing, those spent teaching (both in school and church), my lifetime of exposure to Him through church attendance and schooling, and this in-born love for love stories with happy endings.

It’s a little book – less than 18,000 words in length and only 80 pages in regular 5×8 paperback format – and yet, it feels monumental and if I’m being honest (which I am), scary. 🙂

Continue reading One Shaky Step Forward

Save the Dates! (because you’re invited)

Calling all the Austen-Lovers among us to join me and my writer friends Zoe Burton and Rose Fairbanks, along with my alter-ego Annilee Nelson, in celebrating all things Austen next weekend. 

This event will take place from Friday to Sunday and is a drop in as you can event. There will be posts from each of us authors and opportunities to win some Austen type prizes. 

This celebration (of one of my favourite authors) is being hosted in the chat section of the Sigh-worthy Romance Tearoom’s Substack. You will have to subscribe to join the party because the chat section of our Substack is a private, subscribers-only area.

To subscribe to the SWR Tearoom, go to this link. When you get there, look for the subscribe button. Click it and enter an email address. That’s all there is to it.

You will receive a welcome email, and then, every time we create a regular monthly post or an in-between one that we don’t want you to miss, you’ll get an email. 

My friends and I are new to Substack, but I believe you will also get notified of all new posts in the party chat as long as we remember to click the right thing. 🙂 

There’s also a Substack app if you prefer using a phone or tablet for these things, but that’s not necessary as it can be accessed from a computer browser just fine.

That’s it! I hope to see you there, and please, feel free to invite your friends if you wish. While the event will be held in a private setting, there’s no limit on how many can join. 

Have a great weekend!

Leenie


NOW AVAILABLE: An Accomplished Lady (of the best sort)

Today is the day! An Accomplished Lady (of the best sort) is now available everywhere! (Get it here)

By proving his friend wrong, he might just make everything right.

This excerpt is from chapter one. Hurst is not wrong. This Bingley will do his best to get what he wants!

For the better part of an afternoon at Netherfield, Charles Bingley has listened to his sister promote herself to his best friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. And for the same amount of time, he’s observed his friend trying not to give in to his desire to admire Miss Elizabeth Bennet. When the discussion turns to the qualifications of an accomplished lady, he listens closely and knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that marrying such a lady would only bring sorrow to his friend.

After the ladies have left the room, he attempts to address the issue in a friendly sort of manor. However, when Darcy goes a step too far in sharing his opinions of the lady Bingley loves, friendly tactics are tossed aside in favour of a more direct and calculated approach.

An Accomplished Lady (of the Best Sort) is a novelette of just over 17,000 words and is the sixth installment in Leenie Brown’s Teatime Tales Collection of Austen-inspired quick reads. If you’re looking for a romantic and entertaining escape from the everyday, then you’ll enjoy this story where a determined Bingley does what he must to secure not only his own happily ever after, but also that of his friend.

So put the kettle on, download your copy of An Accomplished Lady (of the Best Sort), and join Bingley and Hurst as they poke, prod, and arrange for Darcy to follow his heart and marry the right sort of accomplished lady.