New book proposals

Princelings box set 2 draft

A box set and a collection; those are the two proposals I have in mind at present.

Box Set 2: Books 4-6

The second ebook box set would combine the Traveler in Black and White, the Talent Seekers and Bravo Victor in one ebook volume. I played about with a cover layout similar to the first box set a little while ago when I didn’t have much to do and my brain wasn’t feeling up to writing. The cover needs more work.

It’s probably a weekend project: putting the three ebooks together, proofing them once more, adjusting the front and end matter, and publishing it. I make it sound so simple!

I don’t know that many people actually want the box set, but I think it does encourage people to catch up on a long series, and to keep reading it, if they can get several at once.  I’ve read several of Lindsay Buroker’s series in this manner, and I think I’d have done the same with M T McGuire’s K’Barthan series too.

Like the first box set, I’m planning to do it on Smashwords (and therefore Nook, iPad and Kobo) and available for Kindle, without publishing it on Amazon.  I suspect there will be a single volume for Amazon in the end, although I see they currently advertise ‘buy 8’ for the aggregate individual prices.

Dylan and Dougall’s Adventures

With the closure of the appeal for the Ulva Buyout very soon, I’m thinking about the irrepressible pair.

They have three adventures suitable for slightly younger readers (Father Christmas appears in one), and the idea was to make the reading level easier too.

After Princelings of the North they have done a lot of growing up, and Dylan has new responsibilities.  I don’t see more young reader adventures featuring them, unfortunately, so if I want any more, they’ll have to be back-story.

Maybe I’ll just put the three together as a collection.

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.

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.

Enter Giveaway

News update for July

I’m busy working on my other series this month as my project for Camp NaNoWriMo, but I will find time to set up the new paperback of The Traveler in Black and White, now that we have the final cover.  I’ve driven Danielle crazy, but that’s the problem of replacing a cover you really like.

BK4_04

The other books are all ready in paperback and I’ve just updated Pirates and Lost City to get rid of spurious printer marks (blocks replacing special characters in the wordprocessing file).

You may remember I entered Bravo Victor in the Kindle Book Awards… it didn’t get through to the semi-final.  I like it, though; it’s just not your prize-winning type of book.

Comments on the new Traveler cover welcome!