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Chapter Illustrations for The Princelings of the North

Starting today, I move onto the chapter illustrations for The Princelings of the North, Dylan and Dougall’s tale in the Princelings of the East series (Book 8).  The Prologue shows the dastardly Lord Colman shipping Prince Kevin, the rightful heir of Castle Deeping, off to an isolated island.  Then Dylan finds a map inside a bottle washed up near his home, which is a story I wrote as far back as 2013, in the A to Z Challenge on Jemima’s blog.

The illustrations for the first two chapters re-use Castle Deeping from Talent Seekers and Castle Haunn from the free short book Dylan’s Yuletide Journey.  The rest will be new.  They’ll be published on my Pinterest site, just like the Willoughby the Narrator pictures.  You can see them all in the previous post here.

But to set you off, here is the abandoned Castle of Derisaig, where Kevin is holed up wondering if he’ll ever be rescued.

Kevin's castle
Derisaig Castle (c) J M Pett 2016
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Willoughby’s #Inktober sketches

I’m hoping this will work: Pinterest allows you to make ‘follow’ widgets showing what’s on your boards.  It should update with the new one each day, and you can scroll through them using the scrollbar on the right of the box.

I have worked out I’m only going to have half the number of illustrations needed to complete Willoughby the Narrator for Inktober.  The up side of this is: when I’ve finished Willoughby’s, I’ll be doing the ones for book 8, The Princelings of the North!

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Book 7 is with my editor

I finished editing Willoughby the Narrator a few weeks ago, and rested for a little before checking it again and then sending it to my editor.  I’m on tenterhooks, because Willoughby was her guinea pig, and sadly passed away very suddenly while I was writing the first part of the book.  When I got to the end of that part I had to wait a while before I got on with the rest of it, but as you know, I finished it in July.

I’ve also done the first major edit for The Princelings of the North, book 8.  There is a bit of crossover business with book 7, and after toing and froing for a bit, I realised my planned fix in book 8 wouldn’t work, and I’d have to edit something that is said in book 7.  But at least I can do that now, before it’s out in the big wide world.

The cover for Willoughby is coming along well, too.  I imagine I might be able to do a cover reveal in late October or November, but I don’t want to do it a long time before I get the edited version back.  I know there’ll be a lot of things I have to work on once my editor has wielded her purple pen!

Ah – and now I remember I do pencil sketches for Chapter Illustrations for the Princleings books.  That could hold things up!