sweet romance – Leenie Brown

Discovering Mr. Darcy | A Dash of Darcy and Companions Story

This book is available to listen to on YouTube. It is also available as a download with a paid Patreon subscription and is / or will be available in some other places as well (see the Audiobooks page at this link).

If you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube channel yet, I’d love it if you would (to help me get monetized) even if you only plan on listening to these stories here.

The description of this book and how the audiobook was made are below.

Happy Listening!

<3 Leenie

About the Book:

A wrong room, a locked door, and a final opportunity to understand one another

When Fitzwilliam Darcy left Netherfield, Elizabeth Bennet had yet to decipher his character and assumes she will never receive the opportunity to do so until he unexpectedly arrives in Kent where Elizabeth is visiting a friend. Upon their first meeting, Darcy seems different from the arrogant man Elizabeth remembers, and stories she hears from his cousin Anne further confuse her opinion until she overhears a conversation.

Arriving for his annual visit at Rosings, Darcy is both delighted and hopeful when he learns that his aunt’s parson has a guest. Having been unable to rid his thoughts and heart of the lovely Miss Elizabeth, he has determined to press his suit. However, when his cousin Richard’s attentions are more readily accepted by Elizabeth than his own, Darcy fears he will have to part with the lady he loves forever.

However, fate and scheming relations are not about to let this couple walk away from each other.

About the Audiobook:

This story is read by Christopher, an authorized voice replica made available by the voice actor, through the Elevenlabs library. While this is a digital narration, the voice actor does receive compensation whenever his voice is used. In other words, offering authorized voice replicas on Elevenlabs is one way that some voice actors have chosen to diversify their income. And I am so glad that Christopher has chosen this option because I quite enjoy listening to him read me my stories. I hope you enjoy his performance as much as I did while getting it ready to share.

Editing of the audio to produce this performance was completed by me, Leenie Ann, using the Elevenlabs program.

Henry Angelo, fencer

Tonight (Tuesday), as I was looking up something of interest to share on social media, I thought “I should share these things on my blog as well.” So, I am. I can’t guarantee it will be a weekly thing, but sporadically, at least, I think I’ll share things like this on here as well as on my social media accounts. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂

The March 2022 Saturday Broadsheet

The Saturday Broadsheet, with all my writing life updates, is now available at the link at the bottom of this short post.

In this issue of the Broadsheet you will find:

Info about what is posting on my blog. (As if you didn’t know, right? LOL)
Info about my writing and publishing news.
Info about any book promotions. (Want to get So Very Unexpected for $0.99? You can do that this week.)
And a story and art connection (It’s a Music Monday sort of connection for those who remember Music Mondays. 🙂 )

CLICK HERE TO READ THE March 2022 SATURDAY BROADSHEET

Have a great weekend!

I hope you have time to read a book.

I’ll be back on Thursday with a new chapter of The Beginning of Prudence.

The February 2022 Saturday Broadsheet

The Saturday Broadsheet, with all my writing life updates, is now available at the link at the bottom of this short post.

In this issue of the Broadsheet you will find:

Info about what is posting on my blog. (Did you see there’s a new story posting?)
Info about my writing and publishing news. (Did you see the new edition of No Other Choice is published?)
Info about any book promotions: there are three of them! (Want to get Waking to Mr. Darcy for $0.99? You can do that this week.)
And a story and art connection

CLICK HERE TO READ THE February 2022 SATURDAY BROADSHEET

Have a great weekend!

I hope you have time to read a book.

I’ll be back on Thursday with a new chapter of The Beginning of Prudence.

A Sneak Peek at Hatfield Falls

This image of a church in New Zealand in a field was purchased from DepositPhotos.

My new series, Hatfield Falls, written under the pen name Annilee Nelson, will not be set in New Zealand, but it will revolve around a church. That’s one reason why I picked this image for today’s post. Another reason I chose this image is that it reminds me of a church you might see here in Nova Scotia with trees all around and wildflowers growing nearby. I am setting this new series in a fictional Nova Scotia town called Hatfield Falls.

The family which is at the center of the series (at least to start) is closely tied to the church in Hatfield Falls since Mark Bennett, the father, is the pastor of that church. He is married to Amy who is a major Jane Austen fan and has named her six children after Austen characters. (I’m not going to tell you all of their names just yet, I think I’ll leave that for you to discover in the first book.)

This series will be a Christian romance series that adheres to the sweet classification I have written out in the article “Short and Sweet? What does that mean?” which can be found in the blog menu.

My faith has never been too far from my Leenie books. It’s there but often indirectly. In my Annilee books, it will be included directly just as part of the lives of the characters.

Now, here are the opening paragraphs from Hatfield Falls, Book 1, as they currently appear in the first draft of the story.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged –”

“Mother! It’s a cookie.” Will Bennett rubbed the sore spot between his eyes. His mother often made that part of his head hurt when she got into one of her moods, such as she was in today. “Even Edmund would tell you that that line is an excellent specimen for studying sarcasm. Therefore, if you say that it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a cup of tea is in want of a cookie, does that not mean that a man in possession of a cup of tea is actually NOT looking for a cookie at all?”

He looked at his younger brother, Edmund, who nodded his agreement – not that their mother saw him do it. A verbal response would have been more effective.

“Fitzwilliam.” His mother used her scolding a toddler voice and wiggled the plate she held in front of him.

Why did she take such pleasure in tormenting him? Was not the eldest son supposed to be the most beloved? Not in the Bennett family – or at least, not in his mother’s eyes. That favoured position was held by Edmund who adored many of the same things their mother did – most notably, Pride and Prejudice and all things Jane Austen.

Will closed his eyes and sighed as he shook his head. “My name is not Fitzwilliam, Mother. It is William. Just William. No Fitz.”

His mother, Amy Bennett, a diminutive woman whose size belied her ability to be moved on a point if she did not wish to be moved, rolled her eyes and shot a displeased look at his father. “That is only because your father would not allow it.”

“Yes, I know, and that is why he is my favourite parent.”

So, what do you think? I hope it’s a fun start to what will be a fun series. 🙂 I have not yet finished the manuscript for this first book, but it’s well underway and slated to be published sometime in the autumn.

For now, you can always keep up with any Annilee updates on FB here or find Annilee on MeWe here. For those who prefer mailing lists, I’ll share a way to keep up with her that way in the next Saturday Broadsheet. 🙂 This is all very new and completely under construction. 🙂

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