CA SOLE – WRITER
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
At last, CJ has a publication date of the 1st December!
This is great and exciting news. Now I have to get down to the less pleasant task of marketing the book. A free Advanced Review Copy will be sent out to the first fifteen who wish for one. All you have to do is contact me at c.a.s@helifish.co.uk In return for the free copy, I will appreciate a review on Amazon certainly and Goodreads as well if you will. Thank you.
Hello Readers,
I don’t blog as often as I should, which means that I tend to be forgotten in the wider world. Normally, for me, that’s not a problem, but when you are trying to promote a book, it’s a pretty useless tactic.
One of the things I’ve been spending my time on in the last couple of months has been attending to the proofreads of “CJ”, my forthcoming second novel. It was professionally edited in June, has had two proofreads and is now ready for publication.
I’m excited, as now the other aspects of the publishing process are well under way. The typesetting has been done and the cover has been designed, although I don’t have a final pdf to display just yet, otherwise I would include it here. Still being new to this occupation, I’m staggered at how much there is to do prior to publication. This is stuff that is probably not appreciated by the public, and it takes such a long time!
The other thing I’ve been doing is writing my third thriller, Nature’s Justice, (I think. It may change). This has been developed from a story I first started writing over ten years ago. That forms the first part of the book, but I had to adapt it to characters I have drawn from “CJ”. In earlier blogs, I explained that CJ is a young man who reaches a decision point in his life and, because he’s undecided on which path to take, his character divides and the result is two parallel stories, one for C and one for J. Nature’s Justice is a sequel to “CJ”, involving one of these persona (I’m not going to tell you which one, because that would ruin the ending of the story). Nature’s Justice has been put to rest for a while. It’s good advice to leave a manuscript for a month at least and then go back to it; only then will you see what dreadful errors lie in it and what improvements you can make.
Once I have an Advance Review Copy (ARC) of “CJ” I shall be sending it out to volunteers to read it and asking them to leave a review on Goodreads and/or Amazon. The ARC will be free of course on the gentle understanding that a review is expected as part of the bargain. I’ll let you know a publication date as soon as I can. Those readers who are willing to leave a review and would like to receive a free advance copy of “CJ” please send your contact details to c.a.s@helifish.co.uk
You can find out more about CJ from its dedicated page on this site.
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Following on from A Fitting Revenge, which has been well received (4.5* on Goodreads and Amazon), my next book, titled CJ, has been edited with some encouraging compliments from the lady that did it (as well as kindly pointing out where the wheels were falling off). Anyway, it has now gone for a proofread and I hope to publish in a couple of months. While waiting for that, I’m resurrecting an unfinished story and turning it into a third thriller which probably won’t see the light of day until next year.
I’m sure everyone at some point thinks back to when they made a significant decision and wonders what their life would be like had they made a different choice. Thoughts like: What would have happened if I had got married/joined the army/emigrated/took the other job, where would I be today? As mentioned previously, this thriller has a plot which was difficult to assemble, as CJ, a young man, reaches a certain point in his life, a crossroads which presents him with a choice of which route to take. Debating this, he divides, with C taking one path and J another. C is cautious and J is adventurous, but both of them have to face a common enemy in their separate lives which end (as far as the book goes) in very different ways.
I have an addiction to Scandinavian crime. It’s often horrific, dark and vicious – think Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. I’m currently reading Jo Nesbo’s latest Harry Hole thriller, The Thirst, and it’s no different. Perhaps Hole has a few more rather serious personal problems than previously. They interfere with his work and tend to drag the story out a small degree. But Nesbo is not one for including unnecessary detail, so I’m sure Hole’s trials have a bearing on what happens later. Certainly, the story has me hooked and I look forward to my next reading session every day. As with all the Harry Hole novels, I recommend it wholeheartedly.