Audiobook giveaway to celebrate Mr Collins in Love making the New York Times ‘Best Romance Book of 2025’ list

Ahhhhhhhhhhwooooooooooo!

My little historical romance about Mr Collins from Pride and Prejudice falling in love with his gardener has been selected by New York Times romance reviewer Olivia Waite as one of the best romance novels of 2025!

I’ve yelled about this elsewhere, but wanted to celebrate on my website too.

Here’s an excerpt from her review:

“We’ve seen a lot of recent retellings starring the secondary cast of Pride and Predjudice, but few premises have the daring ‘hold my beer’ energy of MR COLLINS IN LOVE. Welch takes a pompous character readers love to loathe and with a few deft turns makes him someone readers would die to defend…”

Nice, eh? I’m very happy. And proud. Because I worked damn hard on that book.

Here’s the link (paywalled) to the full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/books/review/best-romance-books-2025.html

If you can read the article you’ll see MR COLLINS IN LOVE is in some marvellous company!

MR COLLINS IN LOVE also made the ‘best of 2025’ list of the brilliant KJ Charles, one of my favorite authors. Read her list here: https://kjcharleswriter.com/2025/12/08/best-books-of-2025/

It’s been a hard year for creatives (for starters, AI is ruining so much in creative spaces but I’m not going to talk about that here) so we gotta celebrate the wins when they come, right? And how better to celebrate than by giving away an audiobook download code (via Spotify) for MR COLLINS IN LOVE, read by the wonderful Joel Leslie.

To enter the draw, please comment on this post. I’ll pick a winner at random in a couple of days.

NB – I need to approve comments so if you don’t see your comment immediately, please know that I WILL get to it.

NBB – If you want to comment but don’t want to enter, say ‘not entering the draw’ somewhere so I know not to include you.

Here’s a bit more info about the audiobook:

Read by: Joel Leslie

Published by: Tantor Audio

Length: 46,000 words / five hours and 22 minutes

Genre: historical m/m romance

Setting: Regency England.

Content warnings

In case you’d rather buy it or want the ebook or print version:

Audible link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Mr-Collins-in-Love-Audiobook/B0FDJS8N5F

Ebook links: https://books2read.com/u/mgByoD

Print on demand available from Amazon

Woooohoooo!