Tag: Austen in August

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


Music Monday: Wind, Brian Crain

When I write, I like to have instrumental music playing. This is not news to those who have been following my blog for any length of time. 🙂  I have several playlists of music that I can choose from when I sit down to write. Often, I pick randomly.  However, for this last story — the one I just finished the first draft of this week — I couldn’t pick a random piece of music. This story demanded I listen to Brian Crain.

29briancrain. “Brian Crain – Wind.” YouTube, YouTube, 26 July 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfu6k8IGOXU.

There were two albums my brain favoured for this story.  One was Piano and Light. The other, which contains the above song, was Piano Opus. A few minutes of closing my eyes and listening to either of these albums seemed just the thing to let my brain know it was time to write. Even when I sat down to write this blog post, I put on “Wind” and before the song was half over, my brain had calmed and was focused on writing. I think it is amazing how our bodies can learn to react to signals like that!

Now that you know why I am sharing this particular piece of music, let’s move on to the writing news for the week and then enjoy a story excerpt.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 15 from 3-5 pm EST, Zoe Burton, Rose Fairbanks, and I are hosting an Austen in August Garden Party on Facebook. There will be opportunities to share some favourites, test your knowledge of Jane Austen’s novels in a scavenger hunt, and (hopefully) pick up one of our books in a giveaway. Giveaways (7 of them) will be scattered throughout the time, and you will have to be present to claim a book. You can join the party here:

Austen in August Garden Party.

Henry: To Prove Himself Worthy is now available for pre-orders with a release day scheduled for August 29.  You can pre-order that book at this link:

Henry: to Prove Himself Worthy.  

(Oh, by the way, this is one of the books I will be giving away at the party tomorrow.)

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, I have completed the first draft of Unravelling Mr. Darcy.  I have let it sit for a couple of days, and will begin working my way through the first round of edits this week.

While it was sitting, I started writing what will be the next Thursday’s Three Hundred story which is called Confounding Caroline and is excerpted below.

AN EXCERPT from Confounding Caroline:  Continue reading Music Monday: Wind, Brian Crain