Uplifting Experience

In which Professor Saku discovers a delightful side-effect of a new invention. This is a short (1800 word) story that fits in the Chronicles of Hattan; it’s sort of back story for Saku and Mariusz (before the start of Traveler), but happens in their world soon after the Princelings and the Lost City ends. It […]

Rajah of Nilgiri

In which Lord Mariusz relates his first encounter with the infamous Blackbird This is a 1200 word tale in the backstory of Castle Hattan.  References to ‘the Rajah’ pop up every time Hugo or Mariusz turns up in my books.  Regular readers may even have wondered about the identity of the foreign gentleman in Dylan’s […]

Lost City beats my target by miles

Lost City finished its final free days during its Amazon exclusive period early this morning.  Thank you to everyone who shared, tweeted, gifted or just downloaded it!  Particular thanks to all the free book sites that included it over the last few months: the Independent Author Network, Pixel of Ink, Freebooksy, WLC Free Book forum, […]

The Way West #24 – the final chapter

This is the final chapter of my Camp NaNoWriMo project.   To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 24: Enlightenment In which the General holds forth and Humphrey finds he has everything he wants The General of the Western Marches sat in the comfortable lounge adjacent to the King’s […]

The Way West #23

This is my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  I’m posting one chapter at a time (Monday,Wednesday & Friday).  To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 23: Long Road to Longmoor In which Humphrey discovers the secret of the black hole The carriage rolled up the road past the devastation of […]

The Way West #21

This is my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  I’m posting one chapter at a time (Monday,Wednesday & Friday).  To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 21: Evidence and Conjecture In which Humphrey finds both old friends and new friends in deadly danger The elite squads gained entry to the second […]

The Way West #20

This is my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  I’m posting one chapter at a time (Monday,Wednesday & Friday).  To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 20: Forest and Deeping In which Humphrey loses his hearing and Willoughby goes wall-running again The 4th Regiment had entered the castle with their customary […]

George, an intelligent engineer

George and I are back home in Castle Marsh after our five day trip to southern Gaul.  It was a fascinating and, at times, scary trip.  George flew us round the castle as we got lower in the sky, preparing to land, and he told me afterwards he’d been trying to work out which landing […]

The Way West #19

This is my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  I’m posting one chapter at a time (Monday,Wednesday & Friday).  To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 19: The End of the Beginning In which Humphrey does some soul-searching and then some heavy listening The noon bell rang.  The King had said […]

The Way West #18 – a long one

This is my Camp NaNoWriMo project.  I’m posting one chapter at a time (Monday,Wednesday & Friday).  To see earlier chapters click here.  All comments welcome.  Story copyright Jemima Pett. Chapter 18: And Live To Fight Another Day In which Betty and Willoughby display their skills and Humphrey displays his fear As dusk fell, Humphrey climbed […]

Nearly done at NaNoWriMo

The Camp NaNoWriMo challenge finishes at the end of the week.  I have to have 50,000 words of The Way West done by midnight on the 31st.  Last week I realised three things: I was behind schedule (only did 1200 words in three days because of other commitments); I had all sorts of loose ends […]

Reflections on a free day

There may still be some numbers working their way through the system, but I was very pleased with yesterday’s free offer of Lost City for Kindle readers worldwide. Like most indie authors, I’m still working out promotion, especially with Kindle Select, where we have five free days in our 90 day exclusive periods with Amazon.  […]