When Jemima found a little booklet she'd written when she was eight in the box in which her mother kept her most precious possessions, Jemima realised she'd always been writing. She never thought of herself as an author until she discovered a strong plot and set of characters, inspired by her guinea pigs. Fred, George, Victor and Hugo had personalities and stories that needed to be told.
So the years of training for and working in office jobs, writing newsletters and event reports in the evenings, of travelling round the country and wondering what it would be like to live in different places, of day dreaming of exciting adventures and reading books like they were going out of fashion finally came to a halt. She started writing. First came The Princelings of the East, which was always intended as a trilogy, with the second and third books titled before they had a plot! Then another book was needed, which turned out to be Hugo's back-story, since he hadn't had enough exposure in the trilogy. Then Victor wanted to be the star of his own book... and so it goes on.
