Tag: Austen-Inspired

Twenty-Two Leenie Titles are FREE on Smashwords…

…and the rest are all 50% off until January 1, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, my catalogue of books (except for the five in Kindle Unlimited) were added to the Smashwords store. I was going to let you know about this new place to find my books in my next Saturday Broadsheet. 

But then…

I was asked if I wanted to have ALL of my books and boxsets included in the Smashwords Year End Ebook Sale. 

I said, “Yes!” and selected the 50% off option. 

This means that all my books priced above $0.99 are half-price from December 15, 2022 to January 1, 2023, and all my books that are priced at $0.99 are reduced to FREE for the same time period. 

THIS LINK will take you to my Smashwords Author page that has all my books listed on it. 

THIS LINK will just take you to front page of the Year End Promotion so you can search by various genres, price points, and authors.  

Here’s one more link that I will mention simply because it is the season for giving. 

THIS LINK is all about how to gift ebooks purchased on Smashwords. Maybe you want to give some as gifts, or maybe, you want to share this link and some book titles with those who want to know what you’d like for Christmas. 😉 

Happy Reading! 

Leenie


The Trouble of a Curricle (and the gentlemen who drive them)

Morburre, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

If you’ve read Waking to Mr. Darcy, then you know that at the end of that book we discover Mary Bennet has as secret crush. Nicholas Hammond is that crush. He’s also the Bennet’s neighbour, the eldest son of a spendthrift of a father, the older brother to a rather reckless brother, quite practical (perhaps to a fault?), and not uninterested in Mary.

Below is when we first get to meet Nicholas’s brother, Fred, and his friend, Whit. This excerpt tells of just one incident where the two of them cause trouble with a curricle and the first of four times they cause issues through racing.

Despite all that, they are two of my favourite troublemakers. 😉

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The Colonel and a Cup of Cider

Warm spices. Autumnal flavours.

Those are the sorts of scents and special foods that come to my mind whenever I write about Colonel Fitzwilliam.

He is my character who has a sweet tooth when it comes to biscuits and will drop whatever he is doing in pretty much any story for a gingerbread… and in this story, he’ll also drop what he’s doing (even hiding from Caroline Bingley) for a cup of cider.

I think he’d enjoy the mulled cider from the recipe in the short video above since it is a cup of mulled cider that Darcy uses to entice him to enter Netherfield instead of staying out in the cold.

Here’s how his journey to happily ever after (with Caroline — yep, Caroline) begins in One Winter’s Eve:

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Ladies Having Tea (Albert Lynch)

Femmes Prenant le Thé (Women Having Tea), Albert Lynch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

I saw this picture and thought of this rather memorable ladies having tea scene below. Here, Mary Ellen Dobney is sharing the true story behind a story that Lydia heard Captain Harris tell in Brighton. Captain Harris is Mary Ellen’s cousin, and Lydia has never liked him. Enjoy!

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