SciFi books by Jemima Pett
Including news specifically about books in publication or launching
The winners of our Giveaway on LIBRARYTHING were:
So pleased to get a nice international spread! The books have been ordered from Book Depository. You should get them in around ten days or so.
Thank you to all 155 members who entered – if you are also Goodreads members, you have until Monday night to enter for a chance to win there!
See the feature on Bookgoodies.com for the launch of The Perihelix this week.
http://bookgoodies.com/featured-book-the-perihelix-by-jemima-pett/
You can also read Jemima’s 2013 interview here: interview-with-author-jemima-pett
Tuesday 16th is launch day!
Today you can pre-order it at Amazon, B&N, Apple, and Kobo. Next week it will be for sale on Smashwords too.
So, why should you buy The Perihelix?
The Perihelix by Jemima PettBook 1 of the Viridian System Series
Two asteroid miners, three women, one spacecraft, and five pieces of a legendary weapon scattered around the galaxy.
Big Pete and the Swede are rich, or so they discover after bringing their latest haul of orichalcum in from the asteroid belt. So some well-deserved vacation awaits them. It starts out just fine, with one of the men winning the big flyer-race of the season, but they start to receive odd messages, and despite the attentions from the girls, both realise that someone is trying to drag them back to their pasts, pasts they have tried hard to erase.
As they set out to discover who’s bugging them, they are kidnapped by some particularly nasty aliens, which leaves the girls in a mess – stranded on the spaceship with very little idea how to fly it.
It’s marvellous. I may be biased.
Amazon – Smashwords – B&N – Kobo – iTunes – Book Depository
With effect from a couple of days ago, if you buy the Viridian System Sampler at Smashwords (for 99c), your copy will include a link to the forthcoming Perihelix, together with a coupon code.
When you buy The Perihelix after it is released on February 16th, use the coupon and get your money back on the Sampler. That means your Sampler was free. Or you got two books for the price of one. Or something.
The coupon ends at the end of April. The Perihelix price may change at the end of March, but it will definitely change by the end of April. It’s called promotional pricing, so it depends how long it takes the promotion to work!
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If you have already bought the Sampler, check back at your buying site for the new edition, it should be updated free.
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We’re running a Goodreads Giveaway for TWO copies of The PERIHELIX paperback, open worldwide.
The Giveaway runs from today till February 29th. You have to be a member to take part – but it’s free and it’s a great way to find new books and keep tabs on those you want to read.
Giveaway ends February 29, 2016.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
This is getting very exciting.
Here is the copy of the paperback from Blurb (printed in the UK, so I got it in 3 days). Rebecca is kindly proofing the copy of the Createspace one (printed in the US) which only took 5 days to reach her. I would have to wait at least six weeks for it.
Hopefully the insides will be fine, then I can release them in time for the 16th, which is release day for the ebooks.
Even more exciting: I can’t stop writing book 2 in the series, and after I spotted something when I was browsing around another thing I wanted as the theme, it produced a title. So at the moment, book 2 is provisionally called Autumn Harbour. It’s quite a tortuous path to get to it, and it helps if you speak Japanese, and that’s all I’ll say. Except perhaps that my flash fiction last summer the Alien Among Us immediately became a key part of this story in my head. It’s nearly got to the stage of putting that on paper. And then the fun really begins!
I have three versions of the Perihelix cover; there are subtle colour and font differences. My editor and sword designer likes one, I prefer another. The text on the right is from the Kindle cover creator, and I can’t manage to find a match; the left and centre ones were the nearest I got. Maybe the centre one would be better semi-bold or normal from the current bold.
This is your chance to express a preference – just comment below!
Yes, books.
I’ve nothing much to say about The Perihelix, except my editor is working on it and I have a provisional launch date of January 12th. If I don’t get the edited copy back in the first week of December, I think the launch date will slip. I want to set up a blog tour, but I can’t find a tour provider with a good record of managing scifi books. I looked at the blogs involved with a couple of scifi books toured by a reputable outfit, and most of the blogs involved had very few followers. I’m hoping my Goodreads groups will provide a better platform – or I may put together my own blog after the hard work of the launch is done.
I have done some work on the cover, though. I’d like to play with it a little more before a formal reveal, although I did put the current version in my graphic for my Blogoversary over on Jemima Pett. The eagle-eyed may have spotted it already!
Book 2 has got about 3000 words in the file – a combination of the first chapter and a half which I carried on writing straight after finishing the Perihelix (in August! How time flies), and notes and snippets, which occur to me as I go. Basically, the plan for the book is coming together, and I came up with the title Casualties of Warp the other day. Better than my last idea, but I think titles have to wait for the book to be finished. I haven’t checked whether there’s anything out there with that title either.
So, if you’ve got any ideas to help me on blog tours, or thoughts on the second book title, or would just like to say hi, pop a comment below.
Jemima is participating in the Trick or Treat Book Blog Hop today, and the Viridian System Sampler is included in her treats.
It’s a collection of eight short stories that led to the development of the Viridian System series. Book 1, the Perihelix, will be out in January. It’s science fiction, with adult language and nudity, but very tasteful.
All you have to do is to take this code:
and click this link
and you can download the Viridian System Sampler in the format of your choice, absolutely free. It’s a Halloween offer, so no buying after cock-crow in your location!
Why not sign up for our newsletter and get updates and offers for the Perihelix and future books in the series? [wysija_form id=”1″]
To go to other book bloggers in the Trick or Treat Book Hop, return to Jemima’s blog.
The sampler is out today, price 99c from Smashwords, for your Kindle, Nook, Kobo or any other eReader. Just go to this link, click ‘Buy’ and you’ll be able to download the file of your choice after you’ve completed the buying process.
The Viridian System: lightyears from any other inhabited planet and several million lightyears from the centre of the Galaxy. Should be safe from the domination of the Imperium, then. Big Pete and the Swede think they’re safe, but they’re uneasy. Asteroid mining is tough enough without the Imperium or the Federation getting involved.
That’s the scene for the Viridian System series – but how did it all begin? These eight short stories take us to the origins of this universe and the development of the adventures of Big Pete and the Swede, their escorts, and the fixer and bar-owner Zito. A little back-story, and little scene setting, all in digestible chunks, which hopefully will whet your appetite for the first book in the series, The Perihelix, to be published in January.
If you’ve look at the last newsletter I sent to subscribers, you will have a coupon code to get the sampler FREE.
If you haven’t received your newsletter, let me know below and I’ll send it to your email address as used in your comment.
If you’d like to sign up for the newsletter, I’ll send out a newsletter to new subscribers at the end of this week, which might just have another coupon code for the Sampler…
Happy reading!
PS Did you know you can send your mobi file to your kindle cloud so that it is there for all your kindle apps? Once you set up your email address in your kindle settings online, just email future kindle files to it.