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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.

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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.

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Book 5 Final Edits

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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!

 

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Final Edits Book 4 – and a Cat

English: On button Polski: włączony
English: On button Polski: włączony (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I received the final revisions from my editor yesterday. Now I just need to working on checking them, formatting, finishing the covers and then hit the publish button. I should have that finished sometime next week, the goal is to have everything go up on the 1st. But I also thought about getting the paperback finished, then reviewing it, then publishing it. If I do that then it might be after the 1st. We’ll see how things go. It is good to know though that within the next couple of weeks, “The Nest” will be out there. I enjoyed writing the book and I hope you will enjoy reading it.

We have two dogs and last weekend my daughter rescued a cat from a box beside the store she works at. So we’ve been busy with it, unfortunately Lisa and Haley are both really allergic to it so we’ve been working on finding it a new home. Needless to say this has not been an easy process at all.

Book 8 is coming along nicely. The goal is to finish writing it during Nanowrimo. Then finish 9 (Dec, Jan), 10 (Feb, Mar), 11 (April, May) and 12 (June, July). After that I’m not sure what I will write, I guess I will sit down at the keyboard and just start hitting some keys.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend – I know I will be working!!

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Friday Update – no Control

Deutsch: Control Objekt im Robustheitsdiagramm
Deutsch: Control Objekt im Robustheitsdiagramm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Happy Friday and welcome to another update.

It looks like Book 4 may not be out in October. My editor has been under the weather, so there has been some delay. I would just like to take a moment and remind you, as an author their are some things you have no control over. You do have some control, you can control how much you write every day, you can control how you connect with your readers, and then there are some things you just have to accept, and try to do better next time.

This week went by quickly and I did mange to get quite a bit done writing book 7, in fact it should be finished by this weekend and if not this week, then hopefully by next week. Then I think I’ll do some rough plotting for books 8 – 12. I just want to make sure I haven’t forgotten something important. I’m more than halfway through, so that’s good news. I’m not sure how many words I’ll have when I’m finished.

Hopefully you enjoy your weekend.

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Friday Fun – #1

Hope your week has gone well. I know it has been awhile since I posted and I want to change that. So from now on every Friday we’ll give you an update called Friday fun. We’ll give you a wrap up of what we’ve been doing this week.

Book 4 – the second round of edits – still in progress. This is a part of the process I have no control over, which I hate, more than you could know. I don’t want to rush them but… Once that edit is back to me, it will take me about a week to go through it and then send it back for the final line edits. I was hoping it would be out the first week of October, but I don’t think it will. Hopefully I’ll hit October sometime. Maybe I need to rethink how I do the editing process.

Book 7 – the one I’m currently writing. This book has made me laugh and cry while writing it. That’s all I’m going to say about it, I have enjoyed it. I have one more thread to write and then I’ll start on Book 8. I already have the name for Book 7, but even telling you the name would give some of the story away and I don’t want to do that. Currently it’s at 117k words. I can see now how some people write 5 or 600 page works.

Monday, took a road trip with my wife to get a follow up mammogram and to buy some tires. I know those don’t really go together very well. The mammogram went well, and that is always a blessing. Tires are something you have to buy, like insurance, or your power bill. You have to pay it, so you might as well smile when you’re paying for it.

Also it’s football season, and I do love football. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

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12 Guardians – the First Three Paperback edition is up.

Another Busy week. Hope whatever you’ve been doing, it has been fun.

A few things you may be interested in.

The paperback is online and available. It includes books 1,2, and 3 of the 12 Guardians series. If you buy the book, you get the digital file free (or at least that’s how I set it up). If you have trouble getting the freebie let me know and I’ll send it to you.

You can find the paperback here – http://www.amazon.com/12-Guardians-The-First-Three/dp/1492116998/?tag=boobytim0f-20

The kindle version is here – http://www.amazon.com/12-Guardians-The-First-Three/dp/1492116998/?tag=boobytim0f-20

Note the digital version will be free for a couple of days in October.

Free next week on the 19th and 20th will be book 3.

Book 4 this week we completed the 2nd round of edits, so it should be out in October. We hope you have a wonderful weekend.