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Book 5 – Abraham: In the Beginning, Now Available

12 Guardians: AbrahamBook 5 is now live.

The Paperback – Click Here.

The Ebook – Click Here

FREE DAYs – you can go to our author page (or blog) to find links to these books.
Author page – http://www.amazon.com/Tim-Hamblin/e/B00BLM93R2/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&tag=boobytim0f-20

The First Three – free – Feb. 3rd and 4th.
Book Four – the Nest – Feb 11th and 12th
Book Five Abraham – Feb 19th and 20th.

Please share those dates with any friends you think may enjoy reading our books.

If you would like more frequent updates, we encourage you to visit our facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/12Guardians

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If you’ve been reading our series and have enjoyed them, we ask you write a review on Amazon when you have a chance.

Currently we are writing book nine (about 50k words into it). We want to thank you for your continued encouragement, support and for buying our books.

Book 5 – Notes

snowMore snow here, also a little below zero this morning. I guess this winter means business.

A couple of notes –

Final edits have started, should have those finished and hopefully hit publish next week. Please notice I said if everything goes well. I’ve been editing since Monday, just been kind of crazy around here to post anything.

Also we’ll have for you a complete listing of when ebooks will be free. I’ll put that list out when we hit the publish button.

I’m writing book 9 – hit the 50k mark yesterday, and I’m still working on the first major thread. Normally what I do is write the main plot lines (threads) of the story and then weave them in when I’m editing them.

I hope you all are as excited as I am.

Enjoy the rest of your HuMp DaY!!

Book 5 Final Edits

Summer
Summer (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn) Dreaming of this…

Wow what a week. I guess it is winter, and this weekend it will be Spring, but it’s much better than -10 or -30 windchill. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for Summer.

I am in the final (last) rounds of edits on Book 5. The tentative title will be Abraham: In the Beginning. It’s a story that takes place after the Nest, but it also includes the story of Abraham (Salome’s husband who died in book 1). I enjoyed writing the book, and I’m enjoying editing the book too. I’ll be sending the edits off to the editor tomorrow, should have it back over the weekend. Next week I’ll be working on the cover and getting it formatted. I’m going to get a proof copy of the paperback, edit it again and then put it up for sale. I have found that doing the final proof edit helps to ensure their aren’t any blatant errors. It also lets me put notes in the margin so I can refer back to it when I need to.

I know I said Feb., but if things go well it may be out by the end of January.

Thanks again for your continued support, we hope you have a wonderful day!

 

Happy New Year – Book 8 done, Book 5 middle of edits.

Happy New Year. Hope you and your family are doing well. Just finished wrapping up book 8 and this morning started writing book 9 in the 12 Guardian series. Book 8 had almost 130k words. Book 9 starts out on New Years Day which I thought was appropriate.

We’re in the middle of book 5 edits and it looks like Feb. will be a good month.

What are your New Year’s Resolutions, or do you have any. I don’t have any, will just keep doing what I’ve been doing. Now it’s time to go watch some football, I’ll keep you updated on the progress of book 5.

Some news about book 5, 6 and 8. Plus Hardbacks

Crop of original painting "Anbetung der H...
Crop of original painting “Anbetung der Hirten” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Busy here, hope you are having an awesome day. I can’t believe in a week (little over) it will be Christmas. We’ve been busy here to.

Book 5 – first rounds of edits, should be done by the weekend. When I get the text back, it normally takes me a week to go through it, make changes and then send it out. Still looking good for a Feb. release.

Book 6 – doing red edits now. Normally when I write, I pound hard on the keyboard, when I need to put information in that I don’t know I put in a question mark, then highlight the question mark with red. When I do the editing, first I read through it once to make sure I haven’t completely forgotten about something. Next I take care of anything I might have forgotten, then I do the “red” edits, filling in the information I left out. Then one more edit before it’s ready to go to the real editor. So this week I should be done with the red edits. I will wait for book 5 to come back and then will do the final edits on Book 6.

Book 8 – At about 120k word now. Just wrapping up some things. Should have that done this week. Then I think I need to add a short, otherwise book 9 would be 200k words, and then start working on book 9.

I also think, from not till Christmas I will work on getting hardback copies of my first two paperbacks done. I’m thinking of including some maps in those, what else should I include.

Book 8 Finished – Book 4 Paperback available – more stuff

12 Guardians - The Nest Paperback
12 Guardians – The Nest Paperback

Today is one of my favorite days of the week, it may be because a character in one of my books is a camel – you haven’t meet her yet, but I think you’ll like her.

Wrote the last sentence in Book 8 today. I’ll be spending the next three or four days going back over it, adjusting and weaving the threads together and then set it aside to give it a more full edit later. That means hopefully I’ll be starting on Book 9 on Monday. I say hopefully because we may be getting some nasty winter weather (I don’t mind snow, but hate Ice) over the weekend.

Book 4 is now available as a paperback on Amazon with the cool new cover (at least it is better than the ugly one). You can find it at the link below.

12 Guardians – The Nest – Book 4 (plus Austin) (Volume 4)

Books 2 and 3 are on sale for 99 cents. I tried to put book 1 on sale but it didn’t work. The easiest thing to do is go to my Author page, and you can do that from here –

Author Page

Enjoy your day.

The Nest – Paperback Available

The Nest - Christian Thriller
The Nest – Christian Thriller

Hope you survived Black Friday, well I guess if you’re reading this, then you did.

The Nest is now available as a paperback – you can find it here – Click Me

Also Amazon is offering a great coupon code today. 30% off any book (with a maximum discount of $10) via coupon code “BOOKDEAL”. There is a limit of one use per customer and account. Kindle books and Audible audiobooks are excluded. Deal ends December 2 at 3 am ET.

Having fun with book 8, just passed 100,000 words. I’m enjoying the process. I’m not sure yet how long it’s going to be.

Have a wonderful weekend.

A Christmas present for your friends

Hope your week is going well. It’s been a busy time around here.

Currently we’re editing Book 4 the paperback edition. We should have it finished this week, we’ll post a note here when it’s available on Amazon.

We’ve also been writing Book 8 – currently we’re getting pretty close to 100k words. We should be finished with it by mid December.

If you enjoy our books, why not share them with your friends, or if you would like a hardback copy of our book, then you may be interested in this.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/12-guardians-christian-thriller-book-series/x/5411443

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Also I would like to introduce the newest member of our family – all 2.1 pounds. His name is Stitch.

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Book 4 is Live

book4-1final-smallThe Nest, Book 4 of the 12 Guardian series is out for Kindle. It includes a short story “Austin” which I wrote in a day.

It will be free on November 17th. Books 1-3 will be free on November 24th.

The paperback for Book 4 should be available in a week or two.

Currently I’m writing book 8 – book 5 should be out in Feb.

Thanks for your encouragement and support.

Here’s the link.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GGR0088/?tag=boobytim0f-20

Book 4 Final Edits – Nanowrimo

Finish Line
Finish Line (Photo credit: jayneandd)

Happy Friday. Hope you had a wonderful week. We’ve been busy here. Today I (after I write this) I will finish the edits for Book 4 – The Nest. I’ll work on the covers this weekend and hopefully early next week it will be live.

I have enjoyed writing it and editing it. I hope you will enjoy reading it.

Nanowrimo has started. I was browsing the forums this morning and some of those people are crazy. They have a goal of 75,000 words by saturday. I have no idea why anyone would want to do that. I enjoy participating, but it definitely isn’t the only time I write. I try and write every day, whether there is a Nano going on or not. My goal is 3k words a day, with is slightly above what I normally write. When I am finished with November I want to have finished Book 8 and start on Book 9. The goal is to have all twelve finished by this summer, and I think I can hit my goal.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.