book cover – The Princelings Books: Jemima Pett

1 March, 201728 February, 2017

Cover Reveal for the Princelings of the North

I’m still waiting on my edits for Book 7, Willoughby the Narrator, but since I’ve made a new badge for the site, I thought I’d better reveal the cover for The Princelings of the North, book 8 of the Princelings of the East series.

This is the story that finally brings Dylan and Dougall away from their beloved Castle Haunn, where they have appeared in stories for younger readers in the BookElves Anthologies. Now they are gallivanting around the Realms with their own major story, firstly rescuing Kevin from exile, then helping to restore him to his birthright. That’s the plan, anyway. Since they meet up with a rebel called Locksley in the forests on the way, and then fall in with his brother named Ludo, you can bet things aren’t going to go well. You may need to reread The Princelings and the Pirates to place that pair!

So… here goes… Ta-da!!!

Thanks as always to my marvellous illustrator, Danielle English, and thanks also to Rebecca Douglass for providing me with the perfect picture reference from her hiking gallery.

The eagle-eyed among you will notice this is based on one of my #Inktober sketches – Castle Vexstein from the north.

And that is the heart of the trouble in this story, as it is in Willoughby the Narrator, due out now on April 27th. Vexstein has been trouble from day one of book 1, really. Or maybe day seven of book 1;)

I anticipate bringing The Princelings of the North out in the winter, but it may slip.

10 January, 20179 January, 2017

Plans for 2017

It can be a bit slow here on the Princelings website, simply because we’re waiting for things to happen.

Our lovely editor is about halfway through editing Willoughby the Narrator, and we hope it’s not too painful for her since it’s the anniversary of Willoughby the guinea pig’s sudden death, which came as a shock to us all. But her last comment was that she likes it, and my version of him in the story.

You can pre-order the ebook on iTunes, B&N and Kobo, but it’s not available on Smashwords until it comes out. It’s not listed on Amazon yet, either. We’re currently targeting mid-March, and I’ll post when I get revisions done enough to give you a firm date.

The pre-order price is only $1.99, which won’t last more than a month after launch (and maybe less), after which it will be $3.99. Only you know this 🙂

Meanwhile, we’re hoping Dawn will still have time to edit book 8 when she’s through with book 7. Our wonderful cover illustrator Dani English has come up with some wonderful designs for The Princelings of the North‘s cover, and is now working on the final version. It looks very dramatic! And of course, you can see the chapter illustrations on our Pinterest page.

There are a few offers around on the ebook Box Set – at present you can get it for 99c if you’re a Goodreads Great Middle Grade Reads member – the first ten or till 31st January, which comes first.

I’ll be doing some more character interviews later in the year, and some places in the Princelings world may turn up in my A to Z challenge during April (see Jemima’s blog then). Till then, enjoy your January, keep some of your resolutions, and enjoy reading!

3 June, 201415 July, 2014

Will Bravo Victor win a prize?

I’ve entered Bravo Victor in a competition for Best Book Cover. The competition is run by BookGoodies, and they have a number of categories – it seemed best to put Bravo Victor in the YA category targeted for readers under 18.

We won’t know until the end of July whether it has passed the first round, but if it does, it will be open for public voting throughout August, with the winners announced after that.

You can look at all the entries here.

Watch this space to see whether it gets selected, and if so, how you can vote for it!

21 March, 20144 May, 2014

Bravo Victor – not long now

The big news of the week is that I’ve finished the main post-editor edit and prepared the advance copies in pdf format for my friendly readers! I expect there’ll be some more tweaks and I need to read it through again in a few days to make sure that Victor (the narrator) has still got his own ‘voice’. Sometimes I think my editor makes him too grammatically perfect. She certainly tried to improve Fred’s grammar, which I didn’t allow; king or not, he speaks his own way!

The cover is nearly ready too – there is a sneak peek for you in the heading of this post. It’s scheduled to be posted on my blog on April 2nd – along with a giveaway that will last all month. Watch out for that as there are some fab prizes.

If you have read books 1-4 and you are keen to read and review Bravo Victor for me, then leave a comment and I’ll get a pdf to you. Thanks!