It’s Read an Ebook week! March 6th to 13th (8 am UT), or till midnight on the 12th if you’re in California or somewhere similar. Each year, Smashwords participates in this jamboree to encourage people to read – and of
The Perihelix by Jemima Pett
Tomorrow is launch day! Today you can pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. Tomorrow it will be for sale on Smashwords too. By the way, you can also vote for The Traveler in Black and White on AUTHOR SHOUT
Giveaways, trolls, and spelling mistakes
The trials and tribulation of writing for an international audience… or being a writer in a non-US country, maybe? I don’t know. I’m sure it’s true that the world of internet reading is dominated by the US consumer, but it
Trick or Treat Book Blog Hop
For the Trick or Treat Book Blog Hop, I’m giving away all of my ebooks for ONE DAY ONLY, i.e. until midnight Pacific time tonight (about 8am tomorrow in the UK). If you go to my Smashwords page, you’ll find them all
BookElves Anthology Volume 2 – Pre-order and Guess the line!
The BookElves Anthology Volume 2 will launch on November 12th – but pre-orders are now open for early birds wishing to catch the worm! The second BookElves Anthology, features stories by Cheryl Carpinello, Rebecca Douglass, Wendy Leighton-Porter, SW Lothian, Annaliese Matheron,
Five years of Jemima’s drivel
quinquennial adj. and n. OED Word of the Day (last Tuesday): quinquennial, adj. and n. A fifth anniversary, among other things… It’s five years since I started this blog. That’s quite a milestone. Amazingly (by missing out Monday) THIS IS
Goodreads Giveaway for the Princelings and the Pirates
As you know, my Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and I’ve just given away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. Now it’s the turn of the Princelings and the Pirates, but I’m only giving
Autumn starts today – a Challenge to all #TackleTBR participants
Today I’m challenging all people tackling their ‘to read’ list through the #TackleTBR Readathon to come up with some books related to the four seasons. Your challenge, if you choose to accept it is to find one book with each of
Starts today – my Princelings of the East Blog Tour with My Family’s Heart
We’re off! I hope you’ll visit the nice people who are hosting me these two weeks, and leave comments and/or likes on their posts. 22nd September Here is what I read blog: interview and book feature Christy’s Cozy Corners excerpt the Hellvis Compendium excerpt
Goodreads Giveaway for the Princelings of the East
My Princelings series is now available as six paperback books, and to celebrate I’m giving away two copies of Book One as a Goodreads Giveaway. I did consider giving away one copy of each of the books, but I’m not
White Water Landings for Nook, Kobo and iPad
Those of you who have been waiting for my father’s memoirs to come out for non-kindle ereaders can stop waiting! White Water Landings comes out 1st September, at Barnes & Noble, on Apple iBooks, online stores supplied by Kobo, and of course,
Have you found StoryBundle yet?
Yesterday was Insecure Writers’ Support Group Day, which I clean forgot. I apologise to all writers, insecure or otherwise, for being so out of synch with myself after finishing the final (well, beta) draft of The Perihelix, that I couldn’t
Fathers Day offer starts today
I’m running a Kindle Countdown Deal in time for Fathers Day (June 21st) – and taking it through to what would have been my father’s 100th birthday! From midnight 18th June to 24th June White Water Landings for Kindle will be on special
White Water Landings – out today!
It seems like months in the making, and it was all going really smoothly until I started trying to publish the hardcover, then it all went wrong. But, this is launch day, and the book my father didn’t want to write,
Transit of Venus
and World Book Night T in my A to Z of Natural Phenomena is for the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens twice, eight years apart, roughly every 110 years (the pattern repeats every