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#HappyPDay 🎉🍾 #TheMeltdown is 1 today!! A day of terribly #mixedemotions. It’s fantastic to stand in front of my map (read countries that buy my 📚😎😀) and mark the first anniversary since book six in #thehuntseries hit the shelves. It is a brilliant read and my fans loved it!

I’m, however, gutted to wake up to the political news from the UK. So sad and disappointing. I’m European first, English second 😢 Sorry to all our friends in the beautiful EU.
Anyway, celebrating the release of what was 12th novel. Happy Publication Day!!! #authorsofinstagram #authorslife #thrillers #eesti #timheathauthor

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#SecondaryChristmasConcert 👌🏻 They rocked it! All school concerts done, the two I attended were fun! My books were also on sale (and I sold some!) #TheSongBirds #TheTablet #ThePrey
My oldest had several performances today. Her dad couldn’t be prouder 😁😘🥳 #voiceofanangel
Well done everyone at #tallinneuropeanschool for a job well done.
#music #books #tallinn #eesti #estonia #authorlife #timheathauthor #talenteddaughters

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#sunrise
Not hard to get up pre-dawn in this part of the world as it’s dark most of the day. But when you see a sunrise like this from home, it makes it all the more wonderful.
Am #editing today, nearing the end of my first read through of #TheActingPresident
And this scene outside is what I get to look at 😎😁 #authorlife #amediting #thehuntseries #timheathauthor

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#HappyPDay
3 years old today! 😀

Baby number 4. #TheShadowMan released on this day back in 2016. Hard to believe it was only 3 years ago. Crazy to realise I’ve added so many more #books since then.
This one has been enjoyed by those who’ve found it. It possibly has one of my fan’s favourite characters in it in Gudu, the Chinese super spy. It’s one of my darker books at times too.
A great read awaits if you haven’t yet read it!

#thrillers #celebrating #author #authorlife #authortimheath

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#AmEditing

First edit and read through of #TheActingPresident progressing well. Over half way through and the chapters are coming together nicely in #Vellum 😀

I write in #scrivener and then copy to #prowritingaid to read and change. I use the PWA metrics to score my text, transferring it into Vellum when I hit those 100s across the board 😎🤓 I love writing. But I’m enjoying editing now far more than my old system. It’s fun!

Once finished I’ll listen to it on my iPad before I send it to my #editor
How do you do it #authors? Let me know below.
And readers, I can’t wait for you to see this one 😁

#thehuntseries #authortimheath #vellumuser

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#AdventuresofTim *When a new bus stop appears close to home and you get the bus across town just to see where it goes before getting off at the last stop and the 11 minute wait means you have nothing better to do than take a photo of your long shadow in the snow* 🤣🤣 Do love sunny days with snow.
#route66 #newbus #authorlife #justbecause #whynot #authorsofinstagram #gettingcold

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Happy #PDay!!! 🎉🍾 #TheTablet published in 2015 and #ThePoison in 2017 both on this day.
Every book is special, each the offspring of an author’s efforts. So I’m taking to celebrating every anniversary.
The Tablet (4 today!) was my first globe trotter, getting a good readership in #Australia and hitting #1 there in the #thriller chart. It’s since repeated that with three of its siblings making me an international bestseller.
Proud of every book baby of mine, of course!

Happy Birthday 🎈🎁 #authorlife #books

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#ChristmasMarket
#bestineurope (and therefore probably the world) 😀

Taking my #editor to see Tallinn’s winter market in beautiful Old Town.
Hot #gloggi and grilled food the order of the night.
And now home to see #firstsnow of winter finally falling all around. It’s beginning to feel... 🍷🇪🇪 #eesti #vanalinn #tallinn #authorlife

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#Flowers
Seriously, are these guys the toughest ones in the land? Photos taken today (22nd November) at home in #Estonia
Planted as early as beginning of April, they are still going. In truth I think they’re frozen into silence now. It’s 0 degrees outside already.
Anyway, I’m happy. They are still looking lovely. It’s the closest I get to a garden.
All hail these never-say-die wonders 💪👍 #flowers #balcony #authorlife #eesti #estonia #tallinn

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#signedcopies
Five more local copies signed sealed and delivered. #thrillers
#TheSongBirds
Besides writing bestselling novels I think I enjoy most finding homes for these books. #readers #books
#eesti #tallinn #estonia #localauthor

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#copyediting

A day after finishing my 17th novel I’m helping another author publish their second book, both done with my expert touch.
4 hours into the task today and this one’s moving on nicely. 👍😀 After so many books (written and read) I’ve developed a keen eye as a copy editor as well as using my software to put the books together is succulent form.
Want my help for your WIP? Check out my website for all the ways I can help (under Happy Content publishing section) 😎

#editing #publishing #authorlife #books #vellum #writingservices #punlishingservices #helpingauthors #helpingwriters

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Finished 💪 #boom

17th novel completed in first draft form.
#TheBlackDolphin.
86,091 words managed in 10 days of writing ✍️ I celebrate because I have too, because I should.
There are so many aspects of being a writer that I find so difficult however. This one could even be the last novel I ever write for all I know.
I hope it’s not.
But being good at something no long guarantees you an income. Especially true in writing. Often I feel totally invisible. I don’t do enough of this or that, perhaps too much of that over there. And I should definitely do x, y and z.
Yet I want to craft and keep crafting, do what I was created to do. Be the writer I am. Despite just completing my 17th novel, with over 1.2 millions words already published, I don’t feel successful.
I often feel I’m a failure.
Despite this year having a #1 crime thriller rank simultaneously in two nations I see only my lack and not anything to brag about. Believe me, I’ve nothing to boast of now.
Life isn’t fair. However, I’m choosing now to celebrate regardless. So what if this is my last novel. If I look at 8 years of seeing no return for my time, talents and skills (aside from the books themselves of course) and say that’s all I can bare.
Is that failure? Is that how it’ll even go?

I don’t know. But I choose hope over despair, life over death. I choose belief over doubt. I choose encouragement over self condemnation. I know I can write. I know I have a gift for this.
So help me God if I don’t write another 17 more. If I don’t share my struggles with other #writers to motivate you and tell you I get it. I know those feelings. Whether you are just starting out or do this full time like me. Whether you have 1 or 100 books in you. I know you can do this.
I will not give up. My path might be unknown but I choose adventure. I wouldn’t be a #thriller writer if that were not the case.
And you know what? One day someone will make a #film from something I’ve written. It might not be as soon as I want it. It might even happen after I’ve gone. But I believe it will happen. One day.
So keep dreaming. Success is an allusion. Comparison is a slippery slope. Be who you are. #DreamBig

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End of another week. Nearly end of another book. I’ll finish this one on Monday now I think.
#TheBlackDolphin
77,739 after day 9 😎💪 #amwriting #authorsofinstagram #thehuntseries #timheathbooks

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End of my writing week—guests coming!

So excited for our longest and dear friends arriving soon for the weekend. Love giving up my office for these special people. Haven’t hung out with these guys for tooo long and now we get a whole weekend!!! Desk tidied, WIP saved and computer closed, bed made and decorated, chocolates sitting ready. 😀

Enjoyed my writing this week. Four days, 35000 words. Not bad at all. 😎👍 #TheBlackDolphin
#TheHuntseries
#hotelheath #besties #godparents #friendship #friends #amwriting #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks

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Here we go again! #17 #TheBlackDolphin #TheHuntseries book 8

New month, new book, new challenge. #amwriting #dontbotherme 😀😜

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November’s project!

#amplanning
So, hot off yesterday’s latest finished first draft I start the final planning stage for #TheBlackDolphin today. Writing will start next week and once again I will make myself complete it this month.
It will form book 8 in #TheHuntSeries and focuses on one particular plot line that didn’t get concluded in #TheMeltdown.
I also needed to develop a new plot line inside book 7 to get me to checkmate in this one. No spoilers!! I feel really pleased with how #TheActingPresident played out in the end and it’s definitely kept moving this engrossing series on, so I’m super expectant for what this month has in store!

The Black Dolphin is a real life prison in Russia, the worst prison there is on who is kept there. It’s been so interesting researching and dropping these practices into the books. Can he be saved? Will they help a prisoner escape from the most impenetrable prison in Russia?

Expect book books out before summer 2020!

#amwriting #authorlife #thrillers #crimethrillers

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Finished!!! 😎😎👍 The first draft of what will be my 16th full length #novel is completed. I started it this month, and took two one-week gaps in the process (not always the easiest thing to do!). This one has come in at 87,979 words though anything can happen in the edit 😳😂 The #thriller is called #TheActingPresident and works as a stand-alone but is also the long awaited book 7 in #TheHuntSeries
Editing can wait, however. I plan to complete my next book in November 🤣 Call me crazy 😜
Expect both out before summer 2020.
#milestones #books #author #writing

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What a treat! Last week was a school holiday so I took a break from writing #theactingpresident to go away for two nights to this amazing treehouse with my favorite people! 🥰

So cozy especially when the outside was so wet!
Now to finish the first draft this week of my 16th novel!! 😳

#bog #treehouse #family #holiday #authorlife #authorsofig #eesti #estonia

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Just prepared and signed another book for local delivery here in #Tallinn
My Estonia-based #novel is certainly popular here in #Eesti 😀

#authorlife #signedcopies #Estonia #history #thrillers #thrillerbooks #readers #bestseller #books #indieauthor

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Believe it or not, this is me testing something 😀

Any ideas what? Bet you can’t guess the right answer... 😂😂😀 #cheese #goals #testing

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