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).

Get ready for a long weekend of reading with Kobo

Hi, all.

I’m just dropping into your inbox today with a quick note about a sale at Kobo that starts just in time for the long Victoria Day (or May 2-4) weekend here in Canada and then concludes just after the long Memorial Day weekend in the States.

This promotion is just for readers in CA, US, AU, NZ, UK.

It’s a promotion that I had to apply for, and since they didn’t limit how many box sets I could submit for consideration. I offered up six. I figured maybe I’d get one or two of them accepted.

Imagine my surprise when they took ALL SIX!

The sale runs from now until May 27, 2025.

You will need to use the code MAYBOX25 when you’re checking out.

You can find all my books on Kobo @ bit.ly/Leenie_Kobo (This might be the easiest way to find the box sets of mine that you want to add to your eBook library.)

The landing page for the May sale is here: kobo.com/en/p/25-off-boxsets. This is where you can find links to scroll through all the books that are on offer.

Remember to enter the code MAYBOX25 when checking out to get your 25% off.

Happy Reading!

Leenie

PS. All these box sets are also available in the Kobo Plus reading subscription plan, so if you have that, you could enjoy them there if you don’t want to purchase them.

It Ends Today :)

I don’t normally send out emails of any sort on Sundays, but I also wanted to make sure I had done as much as possible to ensure you didn’t miss out on this. So, this is just a friendly reminder that the huge FREEBIES book promo that I’m taking part in ends today. (Link to the promo page is here)

That’s it. That’s all.

Happy Reading! (Sunday’s are often my reading days.)

The May 2025 Saturday Broadsheet

May 10, 2025

Today, we’re going to start with a link to the Free Clean Romance event that I’m taking part in this weekend. It ends tomorrow, so if you missed yesterday’s email about it, here’s your chance to take a peek at (and download) the books that are included. I did see at least one other P&P variation in the list, as well as a contemporary sports romance inspired by Persuasion.

TAKE ME TO ALL THE FREE BOOKS

PERSONAL UPDATE

I have started some physiotherapy with the hope of my therapist helping me overcome what remains of the long covid symptoms. I also am doing some exercises for my knee because I stepped wrong and hurt it.

While these things are good and promise good things to come, they are also causing my dysfunctioning nervous system some grief which in turn leads to exacerbation of some symptoms until the nervous system realizes I am not actually trying to harm myself by adding new routines to my life. It’s a process and not a quick one. (It takes something like 66 or 67 days to create a new neural pathway. So definitely not super quick.)

The goal I have set with my therapist at present is to be able to walk a mile without it causing me any malaise afterward.

Three Days, 175+ Books, Sooo Much Reading to Do!

You’re invited to download to your heart’s content

I’m so excited! I love events like this one because …

as a reader, I get to discover new to me authors or pick up books by authors I adore, and
as an author, my book gets to be discovered and loved by new readers!

It’s really a win – win!

So click the image below or the button below that to be taken to the promotion website. And start discovering new authors and old favorites.

Take me to the Books!

The organizers have done a fantastic job of sorting the more than 175 titles into 10 categories to make browsing easy. In case you want to see which categories are included, here’s a list with a couple of suggestions of ones to check out:

Small Town Romance
Romantic Comedy (I saw a Persuasion inspired story called The Comeback by Ranee S. Clark on this page that I plan to download and read. I’ve read many books by her – including a few in this series – and have enjoyed them.)
Romantic Suspense
Christian Romance (I have one of my Annilee Nelson books in this category)
Western and Cowboy Romance
Young Adult
Contemporary Romance
Christmas Romance
Historical Romance (With Quill and Ink is listed here, and I saw a P&P variation from Jennifer Joy, as well as an original tale by Iris Lim on this page.)
Romantasy

Hurry. Don’t wait. This promotion is only available until May 11, 2025.

Which book will you be reading first?

Harriet and the Colonel, Ch. 5 (part 2)

Find previous posts here.

Harriet paced the hall outside the little library. The footmen she had gone to fetch had already entered her brother’s study. Surely, they would be finished soon.

The door to her brother’s study opened and one of the men exited quickly. He was likely going to fetch other men. That seemed to be how these things worked with her brother.

A footman would be holed up in Edmund’s office for a bit of time, and then, he would scurry away through the servant’s halls and entry way.

She expected to see a half-dozen other men arrive to call on her brother within the hour. The little library would be well-used today!

She took one more circuit of the hall, from top to bottom, before entering that little library and creeping softly to the door that adjoined her brother’s study. She strained to hear anything, but the most she could decipher was the tone of voice.