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Excitement is building – mine anyway.

To launch three books in one go is quite an effort and takes a long time, especially when you do it on three platforms and add the titles to Goodreads and other groups.

Scott’s Choice has been posted on NetGalley as well: http://bit.ly/33hXevp, which will hopefully gain some reviews in due course. If any of you are members, it will be much appreciated if you take a look and leave a review – thanks.

If you click on the cover images above, you’ll be taken to the Amazon page for each book, where you can preorder any of them. Scott’s Choice will be delivered on the 7th November 2019 and all three will be published on the 29th of November. If you are not an Amazon fan, not to worry. Via aggregators, the trilogy is available from eight other distributors, including Apple, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.
In case you didn’t pick up on the information about this trilogy, you can read more detail on the trilogy elsewhere on this website.

If you’re not already subscribed to my reader’s list, you have the option of doing so and receiving a free short story, Mjölnir, which is inspired by Sir Paul McCartney’s ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’.

Thanks for subscribing and your interest.

Oh dear, I’ve just realised it’s over a year since I last blogged. That’s what being bogged down with writing does for you.

At last the Scott Trilogy is ready to be projected out into the reading world. I’ve renamed the original title of CJ to Scott’s Choice, that’s followed by Nature’s Justice and The Pilot. All three books have been uploaded to Amazon, Ingram Spark, Kobo, Draft2Digital and SmashWords. From these last two aggregators, they’ll be in other retailers around the world – exciting stuff.

Scott’s Choice came about because I have always questioned what my life would be like if I had made a different choice when significant options on a career path presented themselves. Should I have stayed in the army? There were lots of benefits from doing so, but I would have missed so many of the other valuable experiences I’ve had and places I’ve visited, lived and worked in. They would have been replaced by others, of course, but which would have been better? I will never know. What I do know is there are consequences to every choice we make.

To examine both choices, I dreamed up a story of a young man experiencing two lives simultaneously, each one with dramatically different results. The series is not only about choice and consequence, it also asks the question as to whether it is better to follow your instincts in making such choices, or to listen to the advice of those who’s own agenda might be influencing their words.

The sequels, Nature’s Justice and The Pilot each examine how the two personae of CJ Scott continue their lives after the first book. Is one of them real and the other a figment of his own imagination, and if so, will he morph back into his own character?

You can read more detail on the trilogy on my website, https://www.helifish.co.uk. If you’re not already subscribed to my reader’s list, you have the option of doing so and receiving a free short story, Mjölnir, which is inspired by Sir Paul McCartney’s ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’.

Folks, this is my first blog since February. I haven’t been lazy, just busy doing other stuff – like writing. 

Since December, when CJ was published, I have completed two sequels which were started long ago. These are Nature’s Justice and The Pilot. My plan is to retitle CJ as Two Destinies and then launch all three books in fairly rapid succession. This to give readers a more complete story in one go rather than leave everyone hanging in the air for months before the next sequel appears.

Nature’s Justice follows the adventurous protagonist and his girlfriend through South Africa, Botswana and on to the Victoria Falls in an exciting chase involving a smuggler of wildlife parts, although they are not sure who is hunting who. The travels are real, as are some of the scenes – I’ve done the route and been to every place mentioned in the book. I’ve also experienced much of the drama that’s portrayed, so the story is both realistic and believable.

The Pilot sees the protagonist as a flying instructor who is accused of stalking one of his students and also of smuggling illegal immigrants into the UK at night. Yes, I was an experienced helicopter pilot and instructor but no, I haven’t stalked anyone nor smuggled migrants. But this is fiction, and not everything we write in novels has to be based on reality.

You can see more detail on the thrillers in other pages on this website.

I’ll be revealing the new cover for Two Destinies around the beginning of October and the others a few weeks after that.

Happy readings and do feel free to ask me questions via Goodreads or in the Comments section, below.

Greetings Readers,

“CJ” is now out there and looking to you to pick it up and read it. In case you don’t know, this thriller is about a young man that reaches a decisive point in his life and has to decide whether to take a path that will bring financial rewards through a boring, conventional existence, or to accept the risks that being adventurous will bring. So he divides, with one part of him – C – choosing to accept the business route, and the other character – J – going for the risky life which starts in Bolivia. Because CJ’s nature is to be adventurous, both paths come with life threatening risks anyway. Obviously, you can find out more about the book through its page on this website.

One of the sequels to “CJ”, titled “Nature’s Justice”, continues with the tale of the adventurous J, this time in Southern Africa. I have finished writing Nature’s Justice and it is now ready for a professional edit. The other sequel to “CJ”, titled “The Pilot”, is in an advanced stage of design in the sense that it is almost fully structured, and I will start putting real words to paper in the near future.

That’s the way I work, develop the architecture and then write the words. Others manage to just write from scratch, which is something that would never work for me, I would lose the plot entirely (in more ways than one, ha, ha). Sincerely, I take my hat off to those with minds that can do that.

Unfortunately, “CJ” is very hard to find on Amazon. The best way to get it at the moment is to look up ‘CJ by C A Sole’. Easier though, is to use this link  http://getbook.at/CJCS which will go automatically to  the appropriate Amazon store. It is available on all other platforms as well. Apple Books: http://apple.co/2BMQuZg  Kobo: http://bit.ly/2j8YGvl  Nook: http://bit.ly/2A7vzmv If you’re going to search be sure to type ‘CJ by CA Sole’

“A Fitting Revenge”, my first thriller, is easily found on Amazon, and is enjoying some success. You should have a look. Readers say it’s worth it.

Well, back to putting pen to paper for “The Pilot”.

Hello Folks,

It’s just one week to the publication of CJ on the 1st December. This, mylatest suspense thriller has a fair amount of adventure thrown in to keep the reader happy. Please don’t forget that if you would like a free pdf copy with the agreement to leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads (if you’re a member), I will sincerely appreciate it.

You can also claim a free copy of A Fitting Revenge by clicking the link on any page.

Here’s to enjoyable reading.

CAS

Hello Folks,

It’s just nine days to the publication of CJ on the 1st December. My latest suspense thriller has a fair amount of adventure thrown in to keep the reader happy. Please don’t forget that if you would like a free pdf copy with the agreement to leave a review on Amazon and Goodreads (if you’re a member), I will sincerely appreciate it.

Here’s to enjoyable reading.

CAS