Princelings Revolution Launch Tour – starts today

The Princelings Revolution Launch Blog Tour starts today with the cover reveal on my blog.

I’ve had to be careful about not showing the cover publicly until now, because I didn’t want to spoil the surprise. I expect people have got used to the ‘holding’ cover which Dani did for me last October, soon after finishing the Chronicles one. I’ve had the general idea for some time, even before finishing the book, but Dani gave it wings! Literally, as it happened!

I love the way she wrecked the castle, although I had to get her to go further and rip off the banners flying from the turrets! I copied her changes to make the last picture of the castle for the chapter illustrations.

But now we’re all ready to launch. The ebook is loaded on most of the websites, and I hope the paperback gets onto the online store files before the launch too.

The Blog Tour

I’m very grateful for everyone who responded to my call for bloggers and tweeters and any other way they would like to get involved with the launch. Officially the tour lasts for the duration of the Giveaway: 15th September to 23rd October. The generic link is to this blog, and the banner on the front page here links to this post. So anyone wanting more information can check out the tour stops here, and enter the Giveaway here as well if they wish.

This is the current schedule (may be updated).

and one to look out for on November 18th, a party with Patricia Josephine on both our blogs!

The Giveaway

If you meant to enter the giveaway or lost track of it, you can enter or catch up with it here. Entries close 11.59pm New York time on 23rd October 2020.

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The Princelings of the North is OUT

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The Princelings of the North

princelings-north-kindleby Jemima Pett

Book 8 of the Princelings of the East series

genre; older middle grade mystery adventure – age 10 and upwards.

ebook: 47,000 words, ebook ASIN B0785RY891 / ISBN 9781370899159

paperback: 237 pages; ISBN 9781389104404

The Princelings of the North is the eighth in The Princelings of the East series. Princelings Dylan and Dougall, who live in the far northwest of an island off the northwest coast of the Realms, rescue an exiled prince, and battle against the odds to restore him to his birthright.

Irrepressible Dylan and steady Dougall are inseparable denizens of the tiny castle of Haunn, so far away from the rest of civilisation that it’s almost off the map. And maps are one of the key elements of this intricate adventure. Dylan finds a treasure map inside a bottle washed up on the shore – and he reckons he knows where X is. Instead of treasure, he finds the exiled Prince Kevin of Castle Deeping, antagonist in the Talent Seekers, bit-player in Bravo Victor, and mystery prince in Willoughby the Narrator. Kevin has had time to realise what a fool he’s been, and now wants vengeance and his castle back, which is just the sort of adventurous challenge that Dylan craves.

Lovers of the series will devour this latest adventure, but newcomers may find it best to start with the box set of books 1-3 or book 5; book 7 links to Kevin’s disappearance. This is a mystery adventure in a world not quite like ours, suitable for age 10 and upwards. The series is set to conclude with book 10.


Excerpt

“It’s a map, look! A treasure map!”

Dougall looked at the scrap of paper his brother Dylan had smoothed out on their bed.

“How do you know it’s a map?”

Dylan sighed, and pointed out the lines. “There’s the outline of the island, and the rocky inlet where the boats go in, and the wiggly lines are where the creek goes into the marshes. And there’s an X for where the treasure is buried!” he finished, leaping off the bed. “Oh, why can’t we go now? It might rain tomorrow!”

“But where did you get it?” Dougall was not one to act without all the facts.

“It got washed into the tide pool down near the Ensay Burn. I fished it out. It was in a bottle. I saw it glinting green and bobbing about.  I thought it had a stick inside it, but it broke when I dropped it on the way back and I found the paper!”

“But why do you think it’s a treasure map?” Dougall had not yet caught his brother’s enthusiasm.

“It’s got an X on it, look!”

“It could mean anything, X.”

“Like what?”

Dougall thought for a bit. He wasn’t familiar with maps, except of the night sky, since he was one of the star-watching team at the castle.  He didn’t go out of the castle much, except onto the crags above to check the solar cells or the turbine flow. It was Dylan who went all over the island, running messages. He’d been most places.

“Have you been to this place?” he asked Dylan, wondering whether he really did know what he was talking about after all.

“Umm, not exactly.  It’s pretty much on the way to Tober Hold, but I usually go a bit further up the glen, and keep to the high ground.  This bit’s all wet.” He pointed to the network of lines he’d described as the creek.

“And there’s nothing there that could be marked as a cross?”

Dylan thought for a bit.  Then he looked at the map again and then at his feet. “There’s ruin on a rock. By the crossroads,” he mumbled.

Dougall looked closer at the map. “Well, nobody’s marked the roads going into and out of the cross. You might still be right. Is it the right place for the crossroads?”

It was Dylan’s turn to study the map closely. “Yes,” he concluded. He stared at it for a moment. “Why would anyone…”

“Mark a cross on a map and not the roads leading up to it?” finished Dougall, his eyes sparkling.  “How long will it take us to get there?”

© J M Pett 2018 The Princelings of the North ch 1


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Raising money for the Ulva Buyout Appeal #UlvaBuyout

The little island of Ulva is just to the south of the area where Jemima has placed Castle Haunn, Dylan and Dougall’s home on the Isle of Mull.  The community of North West Mull have the opportunity to buy the island from the current landowner, and use it as a sustainable resource, securing their own futures. Jemima invites everyone to join in her part of the fundraising effort on her JustGiving page, where you can get more details.  Anyone donating on her page will get a copy of a new novella written especially for the appeal, Dylan and the Lights of Ulva, with Jemima’s thanks.

Please help to promote this massive appeal for the small number (in the tens rather than the hundreds) of islanders.


Now for the Giveaway!

I’m giving away prizes include copies of the new paperback and the ebook of the Box Set internationally, with an extra prize for a UK winner. There will be four prizes in all. The raffle opens on 28th January and runs until 14th February.

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Willoughby the Narrator on sale now

Willoughby the Narrator

Willoughby the Narrator, Book 7 in the Princelings of the East series, is released today.

A tale of loss, longing, deception and mystery.  Or intrigue, bravery, fun and laughter.  Take your pick.  Tragedy or Comedy?  He is a Narrator, after all.  The tale is his to tell.

Buy Willoughby the Narrator now:

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 Special offer to help you catch up with the series

Until 12th May 2017, get the Princelings Box set (books 1 – 3) at Smashwords for just $1.99.  That’s three ebooks which usually retail on Amazon at $6.97 for just $1.99.  Use the coupon code AD68D.

Want a chance to win Willoughby the Narrator?

Just go to Jemima Pett’s launch for Willoughby the Narrator and enter the Rafflecopter.  Entries open worldwide: closing date May 5th 2017.

Goodreads Giveaways

In conjunction with this book launch we have two separate Goodreads giveaways:

The Princelings of the East by Jemima PettThe Princelings of the East

by Jemima Pett

  • Released May 02 2015
  • Giveaway ends in 6 days (May 02, 2017)
  • 2 copies available
  • US, UK, Canada or Australia.
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Willoughby the Narrator by Jemima Pett

Willoughby the Narrator

by Jemima Pett

  • Released April 27 2017
  • Giveaway ends in 22 days (May 18, 2017)
  • 1 copy available
  • open worldwide
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Children’s Book Week 2016 – with giveaways!

childrens-book-week-2016-1How quickly Children’s Book Week comes around each year!  Thanks to Bookhounds, we have a great giveaway hop for you.

This year I’m offering a paperback copy of The Princelings of the East (book 1 in the series of the same name) OR the first three ebooks in the series to one winner of the Giveaway Hop.  This closes on 8th May, 11.59pm Pacific Time, and is open worldwide.

Just complete the rafflecopter with as many entries as you like.

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If you enjoy colouring, why not download one or more of the pictures to colour in of Fred and George, my Princelings heros, and Mariusz of Castle Hattan, here.  My favourite is the one of Fred and George in the plane. Save them to your device and print out on A4 or letter paper.

More planes (George starts inventing them after he gets introduced to them in book 3). A flying boat turns up in book 6, Bravo Victor.  Victor is charged to go looking for George in the Rhinelands, and help foil a dastardly plot in the process.  It’s a great read for the budding inventor, business guru, smuggler or entrepreneur in your family!

That is the prize in a Goodreads Giveaway, open to Goodreads members worldwide and open throughout May.  Closes 31st May, midnight Pacific Time.

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Bravo Victor by Jemima Pett

Bravo Victor

by Jemima Pett

Giveaway ends May 31, 2016.
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Finally – this is a Giveaway Hop – so go hopping!