Jemima reads The Princelings of the East

We’ve finally done our first video. It is now on YouTube at http://youtu.be/E88nJUMNV_U.

It  lasts ten minutes, and it shows Jemima at home reading part of Chapter 4 of the Princelings of the East, where Fred and Hugo have arrived at the Inn of the Seventh Happiness and Hugo has just gone to chat to Prince Lupin of Buckmore.

Other than George, most of the key people in the series are in this short clip – and we also hear about Wozna cola for the first time.  I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to give feedback, on technical as well as artistic issues.  It’s the first reading and the first video Jemima has ever done and uploaded, so all help is gratefully received.

Let’s see if this code thing works:

What’s in store for 2013

I thought you might like to have an idea of what might happen here in the coming year.

First up, there are plans for two new books: The Way West (Humphrey’s story) and Victor’s Story.  Humphrey’s story was written last year for Camp NaNoWriMo and needs quite a lot of editing, but I hope to bring it out in April.  Victor’s story is set a couple of years later, but I got stuck with it, and it needs a lot of work if I am to bring it out before the year ends, as I hope.  Some important things happen in it, as far as the development of my world goes, but I also have a number of characters in it who have appeared before, and their actions need to be absolutely consistent with my overall timeline.  Timeline?  Yes, believe it or not, there is a bigger picture to the stories, and increasingly I’m finding I need to have that bigger picture much clearer so I can weave the strands of the other stories together.  It’s fun! Continue reading “What’s in store for 2013”