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Spring is here! A week ago in Tallinn there was thick snow covering everything––I had assumed it would be on the ground for weeks (as it can be at this time of year) yet, amazingly, a few days of sunshine and most of the ground is clear, save for the piles of snow that were cleared.

So it suddenly looks and feels a lot more spring-like. However, unlike in my native England, I know not to expect flowers to appear anytime soon. These are definitely for later in the year.

How does spring behave where you are?

As my recent release is still fresh, I'm not running a promotion on another book this week but instead will stack up plenty for the rest of the month, so wanted to give you the heads up here so that you know what's coming.

Speaking of that new release, The 26th Protocol, my dystopian thriller, has been the best launch that I remember. It's been constantly in the top 100 in the UK and Australia, as high as #2 in Australia with every sale having the potential to push it higher. It has been listed frequently as the #1 Hot New Release in Medical Thrillers and inside the Top 10 for Dystopian Thrillers too. The early reviews (especially from people new to my books and discovering this one for the first time only in the last two weeks) have all been fantastic! If you've read the book or are about to, please do remember to review it (and any of my other books) on your local Amazon store once you've finished. Every one of these glowing reviews really does put a smile on my face.

I'm doing plenty of interviews this week, and there are several giveaways being run in the USA and UK for paperback copies of this book (check out my Instagram page). I'm also doing a live interview on Wednesday 3rd March at 3pm UK time (5pm for me, and 7am for my interviewer, who I guess is somewhere on the west coast of the USA). So if you are around, come join us and say hello!

Promotions This Month

Okay, now to share what I have planned. Next week I'll run a promotion on The Hunt series box set 2 (books 4-6) which follows on from a promo I ran about a month ago for box set 1.

Then the following week, I'll run a three-week long promo with price reductions on all my stand-alone novels, with at least one of them on a 99p deal each week (if not going for free, which I might also do for one title). So you'll definitely want to keep an eye out for that, but I will also email you here as always. You'll be the first to know, in fact.

If you've still not grabbed your copy of my latest novel, you can do so here:

https://geni.us/The26thProtocol It might be your sale that puts me to #1 (at least for an hour, anyway).

#TimsReaderMap

Thanks again to everyone who has let me know where they've read my books (or are planning too when you travel next!). If you've done this, you're on my map. If you haven't yet, or you are new to this email list, you can let me know by replying to this message and I'll add you right away.

I'll sign off now––I was meant to be speaking on a podcast interview right now, but I think the interviewer has not woken up (again!).

Until next week... stay safe!

Tim

Ps - today it's 9 years to the day that we moved to Tallinn (from St Petersburg). Back then, I had not even published a single book. Now there are 19 out and 22 written in total.