Hi, everyone. I’m just popping into your inbox to let you know about a Kobo book promotion that includes four of my books!
That’s two books for Annilee Nelson (my other pen name):
Don’t Tell Mom I Have a Girlfriend
Don’t Tell My Heart It Can Heal
And two books for Leenie:
Henry: To Prove Himself Worthy
The Choices Series
Please note that this sale runs from May 22 to June 1, and is only available in the US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ.
Please also note that this is a coupon sale. Therefore YOU MUST enter the code MAY30 in the appropriate place on the check out page.
If you’d like to go to the promotion landing page on Kobo and scroll through all the options, you can do that at this link: kobo.com/en/p/may-ebooks-30-off
If you’d rather not have to scroll to find my books, you can find each in just four clicks. Starting at this link: bit.ly/KoboPromo
And that’s it. That is what I have for you today. Have a lovely weekend, and may it include a few moments to read.
<3 Leenie
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Oh, wait! Don’t forget that these other books are on currently on sale everywhere:
We are going to Derbyshire for my series highlight this month because that’s where my Willow Hall romance series is set.
It begins in book one, And Then Love, with a Pride and Prejudice prequel that sets the stage for what’s going to happen when we get to books 2-4.
Book 2, The Tenant’s Guest, begins the summer after Darcy’s proposal at Hunsford, but before the Gardiners arrive in Derbyshire for a visit.
From there, we follow the new story line that changes how Darcy and Elizabeth end up together. We also get to see Lydia’s story play out differently as well as Jane and Bingley’s.
It is a series that is filled with the unexpected.
To highlight this series with something fun, I’ve made a couple of online jigsaw puzzles from a couple of graphics that were in my files. If you click on the graphic below, you will be taken to the puzzle for that picture.
And then below that is a link to a FREEBIE.
This weekend – and only this weekend – The Tenant’s Guest (book 2) is FREE ON SMASHWORDS. This is a public coupon deal, so you don’t have to remember a coupon code. It will be automatically applied. And anyone can find the book for free. The coupon deal is only good until Monday, May 4.
The rest of the month, The Tenant’s Guest will be reduced in price as listed at the bottom of this post/email.
So…
Here are the jigsaw puzzle pictures. Click each to be taken to that picture’s puzzle.
Do you read on the weekend? That’s often when I have time to read — Sunday afternoons in particular.
As I head into the final weekend of April, I wanted to remind you about my book promotions – one of which ends this weekend – and to let you know about a couple of audiobook things.
In case, you need a few weekend reading suggestions. 😉
So, first, let’s get the promotion reminders out of the way.
The Kobo Spring/Autumn Reading Campaign ends on April 26, which means in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada the $0.99 price for Listen to Your Heartwill disappear on Monday. If you were wanting to nab that book at that price, you have a day or so to do that. (And I did mark it to $0.99 on all sales platforms, not just Kobo.)
The series price drops for my Touches of Austen books ends on April 30. Those prices are as follows:
Her Secret Beau is $0.99 USD, CAD, AUD, NZD, EUR, GBP, with all other currencies also reduced
All the other single title books in the series are $2.99 USD (regular price $3.99), with all other currencies also reduced.
And remember that the Patreon free read and paid Patron downloads also end on April 30.
Find links for this book on the Promo Page or the Audiobook page
And then let me share with you that the audiobook edition of Frosted Windowpanes has been published!
So far, I have found links for it on Spotify, Kobo, Nook, and Everand, and of course, it is also part of all paid Patreon subscriptions or free to listen to on YouTube.
I have chosen to list the audiobook at the introductory cost of $2.99 in stores and $4.99 in library catalogues until the end of May. After that, the price will go up to $4.99 in stores and $9.99 in library catalogues.
As I have mentioned before and will mention again at some point, my audiobooks are read by Christopher E (E is for Elevenlabs), an authorized voice replica.
This means that the owner of the voice gets paid whenever his voice clone is used to create an audiobook. This is one way that some voice actors are choosing to diversify their income, and means that audiobook production costs for me are lower when it comes to dollars and cents, but higher when it comes to sweat equity and time in the production process.
Below is a short snippet of me working on one of the chapters for Frosted Windowpanes. This was during my first pass. It took me 8 minutes to get this paragraph to a point where I was willing to leave it and move on. Then, on the second pass through the manuscript, I spent a few more minutes (though I did not keep track of how long) on improving on what I had done during that first pass.
(There is no sound, because I work with a headset on so I can hear any small things that need to be taken out or changed.)
In other audiobook news…
This week I have marked all the Darcy And… stories with an a la carte price on ElevenReader. That means they are still available to listen to using a voice of your choosing if you’re a subscriber, but they are also now available to add to your library for $4.99 without having a subscription.
I have also just started to share Discovering Mr. Darcy as an Audiobook-by-the-Chapter on YouTube.
And that’s it for today.
Have a lovely weekend!I hope it includes some time to read (or listen) to a story.
This month, my book promotions were scheduled to focus on my Touches of Austen series.
[IYKYK but if you don’t know… Touches of Austen stories are original, sweet (kisses-only) Regency romances that deliberately nod to various Austen novels.]
In other words, my free read at Patreon, my downloads for paid Patreon subscribers, and the $0.99 deal book were all supposed to be Touches of Austen books.
And they are.
But…
Things are kind of unsettled (shall we say) in our world at present.
The cost of living is marching ever upward at a steady and rather rapid pace.
It’s tax season here in Canada.
And it keeps raining, then, snowing, then, being warm, and then cold. Followed by a shuffle and repeat.
So, I thought perhaps right now, as April is starting, would be a grand time to inject a little fun and a few book savings.
I only decided this yesterday. 🙂 (Yes, it was raining. Again. And gas prices had just gone up. Again. LOL)
Here’s what I did:
First, I marked down the $0.99* book – Her Secret Beau – for the month. (*That’s $0.99 USD, GBP, CAD, EUR, NZD, AUD, with all other currencies also reduced)
Then, I got the downloads of that book and His Beautiful Bea organized and scheduled at Patreon. (Today, I made His Beautiful Bea free for all Patreon members (paid and free) to read this month.)
Next, I went to all the vendor platforms and reduced the prices on all the other books in the Touches of Austen series. They will be $1 off** for the month. (**That means every book except Her Secret Beau, is $1.99 GBP; $2.99 USD, EUR; $3.99 CAD, AUD, NZD, with all other currencies also reduced.)
And finally, I decided to have some fun, so I created a wordsearch using words from my Touches of Austen series and added a page where you can download it (or access it online) to my website so I could share it with you all.
And now, I am sharing all that with you. 🙂
When the world went into lockdown a few years ago due to a certain virus, I reduced the prices of my books for several months (maybe a year?). I wanted to do something similar now since things are just as uncertain, if not more so.
But this time, I plan to do it month by month matching it up with my series highlight plans for as long as things are as they are or until I just can’t do it anymore. And, this time, I wanted to add some fun things along with the price reductions (hence, the wordsearch).
Hopefully, this will provide a little bit of lightness in a somewhat cloudy time. And maybe, it’ll just become a lovely monthly tradition.
Tomorrow, March 1, is the beginning of Read an Ebook Week, a week that encourages readers to pick up the digital device of their choice and download a new book to read.
I’m excited to announce that all my books will be available as part of a promotion on Smashwords to celebrate Read an Ebook Week!
All my single title books will be marked 25% off. (With one exception – With the Colonel’s Help will be free during the sales week, and $0.99 for the rest of the month)
All my boxsets will be marked 50% off.
This is a chance to add to your Leenie book collection, as well as pick up some books from other great authors, at a discount so you can get right to reading.
If you wouldn’t mind taking part in promoting this celebration of Ebooks and reading, please feel free to share this promo with your friends and family.
