New Book, New Year, New Plans

Welcome to 2025! In this first What’s Up Wednesday video of the year, I’m giving an update on some of the things in my writing life.

  • I’ve got a new book.
  • I’ve got some audiobooks on YouTube.
  • I’ve made changes to my Patreon membership (with more possible in the future).
  • And… I’ve got some audacious goals – two of which I mentioned in this video.

Enjoy! (And I’ll be back on Saturday with 2025’s first Broadsheet!!)

<3 Leenie


BTS: A peek at creating an AI Narrated Audiobook

How curious are you? Would you like to see just a few minutes of what sort of work goes into making a digitally narrated audiobook?

That’s what I’m sharing today in this video.

Currently, I’m working on getting Waking to Mr. Darcy ready to share on YouTube (and to list on Kobo), so I thought it was a great time to let you see behind the curtain and get a peek at the time and effort that I put into creating audiobooks, vignettes, and digitally narrated blog posts. (The process of editing is the same for them all. 🙂 )

I hope you enjoy this look into #mywritinglife.

Leenie Ann


Projects: The done, almost done, almost almost done, not started, and cancelled

Today, I’m updating you on several of the projects I’ve got on the go at the moment. I’ve also stuck a short personal health update in there (it’s a good thing) at the top of the video. This one is a little bit longer than some Wednesday posts at just over 17.5 minutes. Hopefully, you’ll still find it an enjoyable update to listen to.



We’re talking books. My books: Other Pens and the best grand gestures.

The first two books in my Other Pens series are currently free, so I thought it’d be a great time to talk a little bit about that series and which books have the best grand gestures in them — all without giving too many spoilers, that is. 😉

Enjoy!

(And let me know if you agree with my assessment of the grand gestures in the comments.)