Dear ,

I so hope you are well and staying safe (and sane) during this troubling and difficult period.

First, can I thank you for your support, reviews and input into the recent launch for The 26th Protocol. I've hardly hit Mars with this one (yet) but it's been a better process than my recent series books in their launch week.

And today I'm super excited to share something with you that I have HUGE hopes for (like emulating the Harry Potter series kind of huge hopes...)! I can but dream (and only 1% of that HP franchise success would make me a very happy man).

When I first read the HP series (our oldest daughter was reading it, so I thought I had better check what it was like) I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course, it was nothing like my books, but even then, as I finished it, an idea started to form, the beginnings of the story that I am sending you today.

Flash forward a few years, and I'm in the final HP book with our other daughter. I also teach at an after school club here in Tallinn, where, amongst the other fun stuff that we've been doing since September, I have been reading this book chapter by chapter each week. So I've been able to test it first hand, see their reaction.

My aim for this series isn't for it to be a children's book (I don't call Harry Potter a children's book, but one suitable for all ages). This series, unlike my thrillers, is to appeal and be suitable for all ages.

I have actually written the second book already (in first draft form). I am so excited for what I can do with this series––even comparing it to The Hunt series (where I did a lot), this feels on another level. It toys with a lot of things I have written before (time travel has featured, as you'll know) so I do hope you'll soon catch the vision for what could become my defining series. There will be eight books in the end. Unlike JK, I've not yet written the final scene and locked it away––though I do know where we are heading, and I can't wait to get there!

As I said above, this is suitable for younger readers, and if you have this age group around you, you are more than welcome to read it with them as you go through my version (which might contain mistakes, so perhaps you might also want to wait for the final book). I am having an illustrator design this personally for me. It should look stunning.

Anyway, that's enough from me. The BookFunnel link is below, as are the dates for your feedback and corrections (and praise?) If I've taken anything from your reviews of my first dystopian, it's that you see me as someone able to cross genres and pull it off. Here's hoping I've really pulled this one off, because the potential is huge!

Download link: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/4ch2f1tdbf

Dates:

Sending Out: 19th February

Feedback By: 5th April

Publication is aiming for June 2021.

I'll share blurb and covers in due course. Right now I just want to get the text to you asap.

Thanks a million!

Enjoy!

Tim