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).
I have three box sets included in a 40% off promotion at Kobo until January 27, 2020. [๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ’๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ 16 ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฑ๐ด.] You must use the ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ค ๐๐ค๐๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฝ๐๐ at checkout to get 40% off. You can find these three box sets at these links:
Couple at a Window, Georg Friedrich Kersting [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
These two look ready to go out for a walk, do they not? Kitty and Lorcan are also set to go walking in the garden again, but first…
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โI shall not be long.โ She rose from her chair and hurried from the room before dashing up the stairs and down the hall to her room to grab her bonnet and make certain she looked her best.
She was just exiting her room to fly back down the stairs when she saw him, standing in the hall, near the top of the stairs.
โI wished to retrieve my hat,โ he held up two hats, one stacked on top of the other. โI told Alfred I would get his as well.โ He was breathing more pronouncedly than normal. โI had to take the stairs two at a time and run from one room to the other so that I would not miss seeing you.โ
Published to YouTube The Alena31 on February 13, 2011.
I was listening to this song last week — watching this video, actually — and it brought to mind Jack and Georgiana’s story. I think you’ll recognize why this story came to mind when you read the chapter I am sharing below. ๐
Enticing Miss Darcy, Chapter 3
โI am expected?โ Jack asked with a surreptitious glance toward Georgiana.
โNot so much expected as hoped for,โ Lady Margaret said with a smile. โNow, come sit here, my boy.โ She motioned to a chair that was between her and her granddaughter.
โWe are always pleased to have you call, Mr. Ralston,โ Elizabeth said as she rose to pour the tea.
Jack did not miss the relieved look that passed between Georgiana and Mrs. Darcy. Perhaps not everyone was hoping to see him as much as Lady Margaret implied.
โI am always delighted to be accepted into your drawing room,โ he replied. โIt is the expected thing for a gentleman to call upon a lady after a soiree, is it not? They have not changed the rules of propriety and politeness on me since last season, have they?โ
Lady Margaret chuckled. โThey have not.โ
โIt is lovely of you to have called,โ Georgiana added. โDid you enjoy the ball last evening?โ
Jack inclined his head indicating that he had enjoyed himself. Calls, even when made at the home of someone whom you knew, were not particularly enjoyable. The conversation was always so stilted โ for proprietyโs sake and all that nonsense.
โIt was a very enjoyable evening, although I did leave with emptier pockets than when I arrived.โ His lips quirked up into a half-smirk. โNot that I minded so much. I had every intention of leaving my money with Mrs. Pratt.โ
Happy Saturday! I’m happy to see you back here today. I hope you had a good week. Mine went pretty well. I am actually feeling like I might finally get to the top of this writing mountain with some goals and plans in place for the coming months — or, at least, a start to those goals and plans. ๐ Here’s some of what is going on in my writing world.
Writing News
I got a good bit of writing done this week — 2 chapters of His Irreplaceable Belle and 1 chapter of Marrying Elizabeth(book 5).ย
I spent one evening rereading Kitty and Lorcan’s story and getting all the chapters I have written of that scheduled on my blog and at Patreon and then pairing them up with images. Finding those images took a while, but then, that can be a fun research hole to fall down. ๐ย
I have begun thinking about what other writing project I will start next. I am considering doing some revision work to a few of my current Teatime Tale stories and making them longer (about the length of my Nature’s Fury and Delights stories) and writing a few new ones. However, I am only in the planning stages now, and there are other options like the next Other Pens story or the next Darcy Family Holidays story.
A Question for You
Do you have a preference as to what I write next? I’d love to hear it. I have made a form that you can find at this link, where you can just check off what your choice is. The form will remain open until Thursday, January 23, 2020. That way I can have some results to share with you in next week’s Saturday Broadsheets.ย
Publishing News
Tuesday is the day!ย Her Secret Beauย will be live to read in Kindle Unlimited and to buy in the Kindle store. The paperback is already available.ย
If you were one of the fortunate few who got an advance reader copy, you can start reviewing through the paperback page.
I three boxsets that have been selected to be part of a Kobo promotion:
A Dash of Darcy and Companions Cottage Collection 1 A Dash of Darcy and Companions Cottage Collection 2 Darcy And…A Pride and Prejudice Variations Collection
This promotion is administrated by Kobo, and there will be a promotional code that must be used at checkout to receive 40% off these boxsets. I do not yet have this promo code and will likely not have it until the sale has started. This promotion will run from January 22, 2020, to January 27, 2020.
Book Review
This is an older review for Mr. Darcy’s Comfort. I selected it, first of all, becauseย I wanted to show a Bookbub recommendation this week for those who might not have ever seen one before. At Bookbub you can follow author and reviewer, and you can like and comment on the recommendations. The second reason I selected it is because this is one of the novellas in Dash of Darcy and Companions Cottage Collection 2 which is part of the Kobo promotion this week and will be entering Kindle Unlimted in February.ย
I must say that I was delighted to hear that Mr. Collins was intriguing. (He is not the Mr. Collins you might expect. ๐ )
KU Changes Reminder
Remember that the Choices series will be leaving KU on February 16, 2020, and that A Dash of Darcy and Companions Cottage Collection 2 will be entering KU right around that same time, which means that boxset and the individual titles will be leaving the other vendors just before that.
In Closing
Thank you to all who took advantageย of or shared about the free days for Her Beautiful Bea and the 99 cents days for His Darling Friend. They went very well. It’s exciting to think that there are several readers who are going to get to meet the characters in this series for the first time.ย
Remember that you can share your preference for what I write next at this link. I will take your input into consideration as I continue to make my writing plans.
Have a lovely weekend! I’ll be back on Monday with some music and a story excerpt.
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Painting of a family game of checkers (“jeu des dames”), Louis-Lรฉopold Boilly [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
From etymonline.com: “draughtsย (n.)British name for the tabletop game that in U.S. isย checkers, c. 1400, fromย draught, perhaps because the pieces are “dragged” over the board in moves. Earlier it is recorded asย jeu de damesย (late 14c.).”
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While Mr. and Mrs. Bingley settled in to play draughts, Lorcan was given the privilege to play fox and geese with Kitty. It would have been a wonderful way to get to speak to her in hushed tones had not his annoying and ever-present cousin been at his elbow instructing him about which was an excellent move and which was a daft one.
