The Princelings Books: Jemima Pett

1 September, 202110 July, 2021

Meet Jemima Pett this autumn!

I’ll be taking part in several Craft and Gift Fairs in southern England this autumn and winter.

My main focus will be on the Romsey / Winchester area this year. If all goes well, then next year I’ll expand to other major towns in the Hampshire/Berkshire/Wiltshire area.

Confirmed:

Saturday 18th September 2021: Romsey Town Hall, 10am – 4pm

*Romsey Town Hall courtesy of Mynt Image Ltd*

Provisional:

Saturday 4th December 2021, Romsey Town Hall (waitlisted)
awaiting Winchester dates post-Covid

2022

If these events go well, watch for dates in Salisbury (Guildhall), Lyndhurst (Community Centre), Marlborough (Town Hall), and possibly Wokingham (Town Hall)

Books on Sale

Usually all my paperbacks and notebooks will be available.

10 titles in the Princelings series
Messenger Misadventures (Dylan, Deirdre and Dougall collection)
The Princelings Notebook
4/5 titles in the Flash Fiction Collection
Two titles in the Viridian System series (science fiction)
White Water Landings (my father’s memoir)
George’s Guinea Pig Notebook
BookElves Anthology Vol 2 (limited numbers)

Stock availability may vary according to location

Ebook vouchers are also available for many titles. You pay me, you get a voucher for a download with the code to make it free online.

Payment by cash or Paypal.me

Reserving books

If you know you’re coming to a specific market, I can reserve books for you to purchase until 3 p.m, or to pick up until 4 pm if you have prepaid. Use the ‘Contact me‘ form on my blog; I will email you.

10 July, 202110 July, 2021

Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale July 2021

The Smashwords sales are a great way to catch up on ebooks for all types of eReaders.

July’s Bargains – Free or Half Price eBooks

To make a start on the Princelings series, you can get book 1, The Princelings of the East, FREE, here.

If you need to catch up with the Princelings series, then you’ll find the later books in the series available at HALF PRICE OR LESS

For just 99c:

The Princelings and the Pirates
The Princelings and the Lost City

For just $1.99: All the rest of the Princelings series (seven titles)

How to Buy

Go to my Smashwords page, click the cover or title of the book that you want, and click BUY – the promotion code is listed above the BUY button.

Or, go to Smashwords, click the Summer/Winter Sales link, and search for Jemima Pett. That should bring up all of my books in the sale, including the new flash fiction collections.

8 April, 20219 April, 2021

The Messenger Misadventures – Out Now!

The Messenger Misadventures: the Dylan, Deirdre and Dougall Collection is now published. You can find it on all your favourite online retailers.

About Messenger Misadventures

Four short stories (c 5,000 words each) for 8 years and upwards, set on the Isle of Mull, and starring my guinea pigs, Dylan, Dougall and Deirdre (who looks exceedingly like Victor on the cover).

Deirdre is pure invention. The first thing I did was write her own story in the Castle Haunn world — Deirdre and the Mermaid. I couldn’t think of a title more whizzy than that, I’m afraid! Then I rewrote the other three tales to include her in key elements.

The book starts with Dylan’s Yuletide Journey, although it’s the least magical. Dylan, the castle’s Messenger discovers some people doing strange things with stolen strawberry juice, and gets himself into big trouble. Dougall is in trouble for trying to find a substitute for strawberry juice in their power system, and ‘borrowing’ various items to test his theories. Personally I think he’s justified, since they haven’t got enough power for a Yuletide hot meal!

After Deirdre saves Dylan from a fate worse than death – with the help of a mermaid, she’s with the brothers most of the time in their other adventures. In the third Dougall helps a reindeer recover his compass, even though he doesn’t know what the reindeer means. And Deirdre takes the lead when she does some things better than them in the final story, Dylan and the Lights of Ulva, which is quite mysterious!

Buy the eBook!

These stories have not been available individually on Amazon, so this book is new for Amazon fans. You can find it here.

It’s also on Apple Books, B&N for Nook, Kobobooks, and Smashwords in any format at the equivalent of $2.99.

It’s arranged as four chapter books, (4-6 chapters in each), totalling 30,000 words. Suitable for age range 8-12 (and possibly upwards for teens that like flying reindeer and mermaids).

The Paperback comes in two versions

Chapter illustrations in their original black /white or colour: available on the Blurb website here. Price £8.25 ($ 12.57)

Note the preview is in the UK store – select your preferred country in the drop-down box top right on the Blurb store page.

The budget version with all greyscale chapter illustrations, is available from your online retailer via the Ingram distribution system. Check the link from your ebook retailer. RRP £5.99.

12 February, 202112 February, 2021

And now… The Messenger Misadventures

The Messenger Misadventures has the subtitle ‘the Dylan, Deirdre and Dougall Collection’. So, apart from the introduction of Deirdre, fans of the Princelings of the North have seen most of these before.

Introducing Deirdre

Deidre was clearly needed to balance out the ‘boy bias’ in these stories. That crept in because I have only male guinea pigs. They are left behind for some reason, when people are adopting guinea pigs, and for obvious reasons I prefer a same sex group. So my instant characters are boys.

Deirdre is pure invention. The first thing I did was write her own story in the Castle Haunn world — Deirdre and the Mermaid. I couldn’t think of a title more whizzy than that, I’m afraid!

Then I rewrote the other three tales to include her in key elements. She’s not so obvious in Dylan’s Yuletide Journey, which remains the first in the collection, although it’s the least magical. I placed it second to give Deirdre a good introduction, and a reason for the boys to take up with her. Then she’s with the brothers most of the time in their other adventures, and takes the lead when she does some things better than them!

Buy the Book!

These stories have not been available individually on Amazon, so this book is new for Amazon fans. You can find it here.

It’s also on Apple Books, B&N for Nook, and Kobobooks, all available for pre-order at the equivalent of $2.99.

You can also get it on Smashwords in any format after the publication date on 8th April 2021.

It’s arranged as four chapter books, (4-6 chapters in each), totalling 30,000 words. Suitable for age range 8-12 (and possibly upwards for teens that like flying reindeer and mermaids).

Paperback to follow.