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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.

Willoughby the NarratorYou 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!

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What an interesting question!

flying machine

Even if you are a Goodreads member, you may not have taken much notice of the ‘Ask the Author’ section.  I answered the standard questions that Goodreads sets some time ago (around summer 2013, by the look of it) but I’ve recently updated some, because of questions you’ve asked me.

The latest question came from Judy S – thank you, Judy!  I found it so interesting, that I thought you’d like to see it – and my answer.

I’m confused about the timeline or should say the “when” line. The time tunnel transported George twelve years into the future, but into an era that is similar to our modern times. It was only twelve years and I shrugged, thinking this is weird. It wasn’t until book 2 that I realized the series is set in medieval times. Is this correct? Or have I lost my marbles?

Jemima Pett 
Hi Judy

You’re thinking of the world as the one we live in, rather than a parallel one.

The Realms (George’s land) are feudal, so yes, there are similarities with mediaeval times, because the kings and their castles see no need to change things. Occasionally George (and others) rediscover inventions from the past, or invent them again out of their own skill. In fact George’s strawberry juice fuel cell does something clever, which is to help the Realms jump the steam-age completely.

Across the Great Western Ocean, their technology developed differently, but still relatively slowly, and they don’t seem to have discovered steam power either, although they use wave and tidal power to run trolleys (something Saku was involved with), even in the great city of Hattan on the east coast. Their society is very different though, and more 1920s in the gangster feel.

Ships that run between the continents are still sailing vessels, and there isn’t – yet – a great push for inter-continent trade. Telecommunications are in their infancy on both sides. And flying machines have been invented about a century later than Bleriot did in our world. (You’ll find those in book 3)

So you could think of the series as something like steampunk without the steam. Fruitpunk, maybe.
To see more of the questions I’ve answered, click here.
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More about Goodreads Giveaways

The winner of the Goodreads Giveaway for The Traveler in Black and White was…..

Traci in Hugo, USA

How superbly appropriate that Hugo’s book has gone to Hugo, OK!!

This month, instead of continuing our romp through the POTE paperbacks, Jemima is launching her new series, scifi for grownups, The Perihelix.

So the plan is to offer The Talent Seekers in March and Bravo Victor in April.  That will take us to the second anniversary of Victor’s book release, so it seems to round off nicely.

If you can’t wait, you can always buy the books – see the links here.

Jemima is hoping to write most of Book 7 during April, but she might not finish it until July, since she wants to at least outline Book 8 as well.

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Goodreads #Giveaway for January – The Traveler in Black and White

We resume our Goodreads giveaways of the paperback which we brought out last July.  We’ve reached book 4, the one where Hugo (Lord Mariusz) refused to go away, so I had to write a story for him, how he found the time tunnel in the first place.  And then he insisted on telling it himself.

I treasure Carrie Slager’s review of this book – so I put my favourite excerpt from it in the blurb for the giveaway.

I’m not sure whether Goodreads is on East Coast or West Coast time, but it opens around now and closes at midnight on 31st January (00:00 on 1st Feb).

 

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Traveler in Black and White by Jemima Pett

The Traveler in Black and White

by Jemima Pett

Giveaway ends February 01, 2016.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

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