The Space Between
I’ve been spending the week here in Cape Canaveral, where it’s been a healthy mix of sun and rain, though the high humidity is...
Welcome to the website of C.W. Hambleton (Chris Hambleton). I mostly write fiction novels with some non-fiction ones throw in, along with blogging every so often. I wrote my first book called "Project Exodus" in the fall of 1992 when I started college, but soon became busy with school, career, family, and kids. I didn't start writing again until about 2007 and ended up publishing my first book "The Time of Jacob's Trouble" in 2008. And the rest (as they say) is history!
Aside from writing books and writing software, my other interests include traveling, hiking, volunteering, and devouring great books (and of course, I'm on Goodreads!).
“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” ― Andrew Sullivan
I’ve been spending the week here in Cape Canaveral, where it’s been a healthy mix of sun and rain, though the high humidity is...
A few years ago, my men’s group from church did a great study about “The Second Half” by Patrick Morley...
With the growing popularity of audiobooks, I recently decided to wade into those waters and had “The Author of Life” made into an audiobook...
A funny thing happens when some people become Christians. We get all “on fire for God” and begin dreaming up all these great things...
“There is a certain amount of intrigue that gets created by revealing portions of the book and, in the process, generating a certain amount of interest. Often, authors do this by releasing a few chapters online or even releasing film-like trailers.” ―Ravi Subramanian
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.” ― Tim O'Brien
“Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.” ― Amy Bloom
“Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.” ― Jane Gardam
If you have any questions or comments, please message me at cwhambletonbooks@gmail.com and I will respond as soon as I can. As always, good reviews on Amazon and other sites are greatly appreciated. Thank you!