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Castles…The A to Z Challenge started on Monday, but you can still join if you wish! Today I’m continuing the illustration theme with a discussion of the castles in my Princelings books. I’m Jemima Pett, author, blogger, illustrator and guinea
A cannon in an embrasure at the top of a castle wall. Several things sprang to mind for this week’s #writephoto from Kl Caley at New2Writing.com. I remembered my recent visit up the winding stair in the tower, and returned
Approach to the tower. It doesn’t seem long since we had another tower along an approach for #writephoto, but I’m sure KL Caley at New2writing.com knows what she’s doing! This one came to me over breakfast on Saturday. It’s nearly
Door – a pretty picture for this week’s #writephoto prompt from KL Caley at New2writing.com. It gave me a very simple idea, but far too simple, really. I did another book stall at a craft fair on Saturday. It went
Rough Steps is my take on this week’s writephoto–of a stairway, which as you can see is pretty rough-hewn. My thanks go to KL Caley of New2Writing.com for continuing to keep us up to the mark with not only a
Castles seem to be an obsession with me. The whole of the Princelings series revolves around inter-castle rivalry. And here’s a post to celebrate C in the A to Z Anniversary challenge. I’m doing flashbacks to the posts I’ve done
Norfolk is the focus for my writing inspirations today. You may think that I did Norfolk for H when I talked about Hickling, Horsey, and the Broads. People say Norfolk is flat. The Broads are flat. How Hill is about
Castles are common in the UK. Stockades built by the Celts against the Anglo Saxons, or Saxon fortifications to ward of the Vikings, now crumbled away, or great stone towers by the Normans in the 11th Century, most are ruined
I thought you’d like an excerpt from The Princelings of the North this week, since I used the first sentence of the 21st page in my Challenge example on Monday. I was hoping to work on an idea for Chuck
About the Book Title: The Search for the Stone of Excalibur (The Chronicles of the Stone, Book 2) | Author: Fiona Ingram | Publication Date: October 6, 2014 | Publisher: The Educational Publisher / Biblio Publishing | Pages: 376 |
The news from Smashwords that they are now shipping the books to Flipkart.com, an Indian online book retailer, made me think about the market for my books there. I do have readers in India. Judging from names and email addresses,
Here we are for the second interview in the series, and Victor is sitting in front of me, swapping his feet over and generally combining an air of nervousness with barely contained excitement. He tells me he has never been
We start on the planet Draco, inhabited by sentient wolves with their own history and culture who watch some humans arrive in a spaceship. Flip forward into a science fiction whodunnit type of scenario, very smartly done and very intriguing
Ever wondered why Fred and George never seem to pay for anything? How the Inn of the Seventh Happiness keeps going? Why Vexstein bothers to make beer if it’s all free? Well, it isn’t. One of the first things that