Category: What’s Up Wednesdays

Enjoying my books on ElevenReader

A What’s Up Wednesday How To

I’ve been uploading my books to the free library on ElevenReader for some time now. At the time of recording this video, I have 30 Leenie Brown titles listed there and all 3 of my Annilee Nelson titles. 

Find me on ElevenReader here.

(If you subscribe to my YouTube channel or social media or follow notes on Substack, you’ve probably seen me post about books being added. And I’ve been sharing about it in the Saturday Broadsheet.) 

Just last week, I had someone ask me about how ElevenReader works, and I thought that would be an excellent topic for a How To video. This is how ElevenReader works for a reader looking for books to listen to. 

In the future, I’ll do a Behind The Scenes video showing how I publish to ElevenReader for the curious readers and for other authors to see how it’s done. 

Enjoy! 

Leenie Ann

PS I don’t read JF Penn’s books (she does horror type things and suspense of some sort and those are NOT genres I enjoy lol), but I listen to her podcast for writers so that’s why I recognized her name 🙂 


eBooks to Keep, Part 2: Smashwords

Options are great — especially when it comes to where to get eBooks to KEEP! 🙂

Today, I’m going to take you down a rambling path to show you some about how to get eBooks to keep from Smashwords (and there’s a freebie that only free from until May 1 because I needed it for demonstration purposes. The link is below the video.)

So, how many times do I say “and I think that’s it” before I finally mean it? LOL You’ll have to watch to find out — but it’s more than one and maybe more than three? I forgot to count when I was editing.

I also tried my hand at a few edits to increase or decrease the size of my image and move it around during the video. Always learning and hopefully improving over time.

Enjoy!

PS. Don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thanks!

Link to And Then Love at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1189409

Link to With Quill and Ink at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1189190

Link to Don’t Tell My Heart It Can Heal (that’s my Annilee book) at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1508867

Find me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/leeniebrown


Writing While Wearing Jane Austen Coloured Glasses (Touches of Austen books 1 and 4)

In this video, I’m talking about my Touches of Austen series. Well, two books from it actually — His Beautiful Bea and His Irreplaceable Belle. These are two original sweet Regency romances that include some deliberate nods to one of my favourite authors — Jane Austen.

Enjoy!

Some Extras:

His Beautiful Bea is now available to listen to for free here on YouTube at this link:

There is also a short and sweet vignette that was inspired by the youngest Clayton brother and some things that happened in book 2 of the series. You can listen to that at this link:


Ebooks to Keep, Part 1: Patreon

Recently, there was a kerfuffle about Amazon, when the way they allowed people to download ebooks was altered just slightly. (You can no longer download and transfer books via USB.) This led to an Amazon boycott by some, which came on top of a couple other boycotts of Amazon for various reasons.

(And candidly, those boycotts hurt small sellers on Amazon a whole lot more than they do Amazon itself. But I don’t want to get depressing here, so I’ll leave it at that for now.)

Today, I’m sharing both a way to help support me and my work, and a way to get copies of my ebooks to keep — and transfer to other devices via USB if you so choose. 🙂

There are actually two ways to get my books in such a fashion, but I’m starting with how to download them from Patreon if you’re a paid member.

I use Bookfunnel to distribute advance reader copies of books, too, so this how-to would be the same for those.

Enjoy!


Novelettes . . . where nature plays a part

Today, I’m sharing my (Leenie’s) Nature’s Fury and Delights collection of novelettes with you. Or should I say rambling on about my Nature’s Fury collection since I was struggling with some brain fog issues when I recorded this yesterday. 🙂

I’m also trying out a new mic set up. One of these days I’ll get all the tech stuff figured out. (I hope LOL) Probably about the time I start to feel a bit more comfortable being on camera? Maybe?

Enjoy!