POTN Launch plans include a JustGiving appeal

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The Princelings of the North is on schedule for its launch on 30th January 2018.

You probably know that Dylan and Dougall’s Princelings home is on the Isle of Mull.  I spent many happy holidays there. My drawings of D&D’s castle use pictures of the cliffs and rock formations of the area.  A few miles further south there’s an island, Ulva, accessible by ferry, where I went for walks each year.  I even did some bird surveys – on one special day I saw a peregrine, a buzzard, a golden eagle and a hen harrier in quick succession!

Castle HaunnBut the tiny Ulva community is in trouble.  The island is for sale, and rather than have some rich absentee landlord take control, they have worked with the North West Mull Community Woodland Company to get permission to put in a community buyout for the island.  Now they have until May 2018 to raise the cash.

This is where you come in.  I’m writing a new short story featuring Dylan and Dougall, and everybody who donates on my JustGiving page can claim a free copy, downloadable from Smashwords. It’s called Dylan and the Lights of Ulva.

To learn more about the appeal click the picture to go to my JustGiving page, which is also linked to the charity’s JustGiving page which expands on their objectives and targets.

ulva buyout - raise money to buy this island for the islanders

 

The new story is now ready.  If you donate on my page, your money will go direct to the Ulva buyout fund (not via me). In return you’ll receive a message with the code to claim your free ebook Dylan and the Lights of Ulva.

I’m also considering bundling this new story with the previous two D&D stories. Dylan’s Yuletide Journey is already available on Smashwords, as well as in the BookElves Anthology Volume 1, while Dougall’s Reindeer Adventure is only available in the BookElves Anthology Volume 2.  I think it would be nice to have the three of them together in one ebook.  Maybe there will be more, who knows?

 

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Willoughby the Narrator

Well, the February release date got put back to March, and after a few hiccups, I really hope that early April will be possible.  Then I thought about the A to Z April Blogging Challenge, and wondered whether lots of people might be up for a Launch Day special on April 27th – the day they would be blogging on W.

Willoughby the Narrator

I can’t guarantee that date yet, but if you’re interested in joining in a Book Launch Blast for Willoughby The Narrator please let me know in the comments below.

I’ll be setting up the launch details and probably trying a Thunderclap announcement from my blog, Jemima Pett.

Princelings Box set no. 1 out today

Princelings Box Set 1

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Today we launch the first box set of ebooks 1 to 3 of the Princelings series. This volume combines the existing three ebooks of the trilogy into one humungous download – three books for the price of one and two-thirds.  You can still get the Princelings of the East itself permafree on Smashwords, and some, but not all the Amazon stores respect that; others charge 99c equivalent. The second and third books individually are $2.99, so all three at $4.99 is a bargain, and I don’t guarantee it will stay that way.  I hope people will enjoy them enough to buy the rest of thee series, Traveler in Black and White, and then Talent Seekers, and on through the rest of the series.

On the other hand, I am thinking about bringing out a second box set, of books 4 – 6 in the spring, just in case it encourages more people to get further through the series as book 7, Willoughby the Narrator comes out.

The Blurb

A time tunnel, a pirate king, a lost city. In three separate adventures, Princelings Fred and George set out to solve trifling problems, and uncover dangerous and sometimes desperate foes, each with his or her own agenda, threatening the peace of the Realms.

The Princelings of the East: the saga starts with Fred and George leaving their cosy Castle in the Marsh. They encounter the mysterious cola vendor Hugo, the playboy Prince Lupin, and the over-worked innkeeper Victor, and have to use their own wits to decide who to trust, and how to prevent their ordered society descending into chaos.
The Princelings and the Pirates sees our heroes setting out to discover what has gone wrong at Castle Dimerie – a simple errand that ends in kidnap, shipwreck, and a battle in which no quarter is given.

The Princelings and the Lost City introduces George to the delights of flying, and Fred to the tortures of true love. Their inventions and experiments take a back seat as the puzzle of the Lost City and its all-female society lead to questions that may be too difficult to solve.

And having experienced a time paradox in the first adventure, George is under pressure to achieve a new method of providing the world with energy from strawberry juice. It’s a project that, for all the benefits it brings, creates far-reaching changes in their ordered society.

You can get The Princelings of the East Books 1-3

for Kindle, iPad, Nook and Kobo at Smashwords

(for just 99c on Smashwords with coupon code ME32D expires 24th Dec 2016)

and at Apple iTunes **  B&N (Nook) ** Kobo