Princelings of the East Books 4-6: Box set 2 out Wednesday

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The second ebook Box Set: Princelings of the East Books 4-6, is out on Wednesday 20th February.

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A time tunnel from the future, a castle with paranormal powers, an assignment in foreign parts. Three separate adventures take us further into the world of Princelings Fred and George. We meet Lord Mariusz finding both opportunity and trouble when he steps back in time; Humphrey, the refugee from the Lost City, seeking somewhere he can call home, and Victor, the ambitious young barkeeper, setting out on his business career, with two, or is it three, assignments to unravel industrial espionage.

The Traveler in Black and White: this prequel to the series enables Lord Mariusz to set the record straight in his own laid-back style. Was he really a profiteering, hard-hearted, opportunistic charlatan? Or just a charming victim of circumstance. He’s certainly charming.

The Talent Seekers provide Humphrey with the opportunity to use his unnatural powers of hearing and memory. He emerges from the obscurity of gangs of refugees and outcasts, victimised by the evil Lord Colman, to become the hero of the hour. But surely, isn’t friendship what it’s all about?

Bravo Victor takes us further away from the Realms than we’ve ever been, showing that inventions and shady deals know no boundaries. Why has Princeling George not returned from the flying festival, and who is trying to smuggle a banned drink into the Realms? Sundance is tasked to find out, but it’s Victor’s expertise that he needs to solve his problems.

These three books in the series take us from the discovery of the time tunnel through to the complications of travellers crossing their time lines, all the while making progress towards an end product to deliver the promise the Princelings made in the very first book.

The ebook box set is available for Kindle at Smashwords only; also at iTunes for iPad, B&N for Nook, and Kobobooks for Kobo, and various other online retailers. Price is $8.99, which saves nearly $3 on the price of the three ebooks separately.

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Goodreads Giveaway for The Talent Seekers

Talent Seekers

Our fifth Princelings series giveaway is of course, The Talent Seekers.

Humphrey is a refugee from the Lost City of Arbor.  He is travelling west, as his mother suggested.  The trouble is – he’s finding trouble wherever he goes; violent people from one castle trying to round up fugitives like himself; strange gangs with hidden minds that not even he can hear; lords plotting to overthrow their neighbours… but on a lighter note, we meet Willoughby the Narrator for the first time!

This is a tale of darker places than even Hugo found on his travels in the Realms, and one that gives an idea of the danger that lies ahead for our heroes – danger and the fight for freedom from tyranny and oppression.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Talent Seekers by Jemima Pett

The Talent Seekers

by Jemima Pett

Giveaway ends March 31, 2016.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

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If you can’t wait for the end of the Giveaway to find out whether you’ve won a paperback – you can always go for the ebook – in any ereader format from Smashwords.com and other online stores.

The Talent Seekers – Out Now on Amazon!

The Talent Seekers is now published on Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Talent-Seekers-Princelings-East-ebook/dp/B00CWKBIN4/.  You can download it for your Kindle or Kindle app for just £2.10 (or $2.99 at the .com site – €2.60 on European sites).  It is also free to borrow for Amazon Prime members until mid-August.

The blurb:

Humphrey having a small cuddleHumphrey is on the run.  He has no friends, no past, no purpose, and no future.  He’s just a guinea pig trying to find his way west in a world of dark forests, wild hills, strong castles, and assorted vagabonds and other nameless things that might or might not begin with the letter V.

White Horse Castle has a proud past but an uncertain future.  The new king, Benson, is trying to hold his realm together against the avaricious intentions of his neighbour, Lord Colman of Castle Deeping. Fortunately, White Horse Castle has a secret.  It knows that there are special guinea pig people out there… people who need a purpose… people with skills and talents that could be put to good use. The trouble is, how to find them?

It’s a tale of friendship and greed, battles and ingenuity, suitable for readers aged 12 and up.

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The Talent Seekers is set after all but the epilogue of the Lost City in the Princelings timeline, but is more or less independent of the previous stories.  Some minor characters have appeared in other books, but most are new.

As with previous books, there will be some free offer days during the next three months.  For the latest news, follow this website, or follow Jemima’s blog, like the Princelings Facebook page, follow @jemima_pett on Twitter, or become a fan of Jemima Pett on Goodreads.

Children’s Book Week Day 6

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Read any good children’s books recently? Stuck for ideas?  Well, this week is your big chance to hop around the world in search of good reads for kids.  You may even win copies, too!   Children’s Book Week is a celebration of the best books for children. 

This is the last day this week I’ll be posting here, talking about my books, my characters and other books that inspired me.   There is a link to my Giveaway, which you can visit again tomorrow for a last few entries if you like. I hope you’ve enjoyed your visits here, and you’ve ‘followed’ us to keep in touch..

Humphrey – star of The Talent Seekers

Humphrey having a small cuddleIf all goes well, this time next week there will be a new Princelings ebook in the Amazon stores.  Called The Talent Seekers, it stars Humphrey, who was born and raised in the Lost City of Arbor, but escaped and began his journey west at the start of the third book.  This is the story of how he found friendship and a purpose in life.  Here’s a short (580 word) extract for you.

Humphrey (who is pretending to be from Castle Fortune) has left White Horse Castle after a security scare, but is drawn back for the Narrathon, a story-telling marathon during a festival.

Humphrey woke and shook himself.  The sun was as high as it was going to get, and if he didn’t make up his mind, he’d miss the Narrathon and that would make this whole thing a waste of time and effort.  Maybe it doesn’t matter if you miss the Narrathon, a small voice said inside him.  No, said a bigger one.  I want to see it!

He stepped boldly from the path and headed to the castle.

Less than half an hour later he joined a short line of people waiting to go through the castle gates.  He listened to the people in front of him and hoped he would be able to make up the answers to the questions he was asked.  They moved forward quickly.  He’d be there in a few minutes.  He started to panic, and looked around for somewhere to hide.

Behind him was a brown coloured person with a very strange pile of sticks on his back.

“Bit of a pain, this, isn’t it,” he said.

“Er, yes,” said Humphrey, not entirely sure what he meant by “this”.

“I mean, it’s obvious who I am, they know me. I came through yesterday but I still have to go through all the checks.”

“I was here yesterday,” Humphrey said, “I have a visitor’s pass but I left before they gave out the sashes.”

“Oh, you’ll be okay then,” said the brown person, who was beginning to remind Humphrey of someone he had seen the day before.  “Just show your pass.”

Humphrey wondered where he’d put it.  Then he realised it was still tucked under his arm, hidden safely away.  He wondered if the person would mind if he asked him about his sticks.

“Come on, then,” said the brown person, nodding up the path to the gates where a gap had opened up.  Humphrey turned and quickly closed up to the person in front.  They were nearly there.  He hugged his pass tighter, making sure it was still there.

Then it was his turn.

“Name?” asked the guard.  Humphrey thought he was very large and fierce.

“Humphrey of Fortune,” he replied, trying not to stutter, and he pulled out his pass and showed it to the guard.

“Why didn’t you get a sash yesterday, then?”

“I, er, I left before they were given out.”

“That was silly of you, Humphrey of Fortune,” said the guard, handing over a purple sash with an F marked on it in white. “Put this on, and don’t take it off, and don’t lose it.”

“Thank you,” said Humphrey breathlessly, climbing into his sash.

“Come on, Harrison,” said the brown person to the guard, “let me in, won’t you?”

Harrison, the guard, laughed. “Yes sir, Mister Willoughby.  Or should I call you Lord Willoughby since you seem all high and mighty all of a sudden?”

Humphrey’s insides did somersaults.  Willoughby the Narrator!  He’d been talking to a real live Narrator!  Who was taking part in the Narrathon!

“Excuse me, Mr Willoughby,” he said to him as they moved through the gates. “Where is the best place to sit to listen to you today?”

“Right by my fiddlesticks, Humphrey of Fortune,” he said with a wink.  “Don’t they have narrators at Fortune yet?”

“Er, no, not yet,” Humphrey hoped he was right, and remembering what someone had said about Fortune: “we’re still rebuilding things.”

“Well, you make sure they have a Narrathon at Yule and I’ll be there.”

Things to do

I haven’t any more things for you to do today, but I hope you enjoyed visiting during Children’s book week.  If you’ve been collecting the pictures and colouring them in, you could post them on our Facebook page!  If it won’t let you post on the book page, post it on my Jemima Pett page instead. I still have trouble knowing what you can post where.

Enter my Giveaway

KL Giveaway

Thanks to Mother Daughter Book Reviews and Youth Literature Reviews I’m taking part in a worldwide promotion, the Kid Lit Giveaway Hop. My Giveaway is part of that.

The prizes are:

  • one copy of the Princelings Trilogy (paperback) to a winner in the EU (plus Norway and Switzerland)
  • a bundle of the first three ebooks (as pictured) for a winner elsewhere in the world.
  • one copy of my latest ebook The Talent Seekers (or another of the series if preferred) to a winner (worldwide)

It’s open now and it will close at midnight 19th May (New York time). Click the Kid Lit Giveaway button above to enter – and you can enter every day!

Even more – you can go to other blogs with more books and competitions! Let’s go hopping…

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