Free book!

[Jim Huk]

Hi everyone,

I've been on VATSIM forever, and I will spare you the sad story of how my wife grounded me from RW flying as a precondition for having children. I look forward to that time, coming up with my first in college and my second 1.5 years away, when she gets sick of me and says, "Why don't you go flying again? Just make sure the insurance is paid!"

So while working full-time for a bank I've written a novel about a guy accused of stealing $6 m and is put on suspension. To get his mind off of it he flies a friend, another Wall Street big wig, in a Cirrus SR22 Turbo down to Hilton Head, South Carolina, to play golf with a client, and I try to give a realistic sense of piloting for the reader.

I've done a soft release on the book, Holding Patterns, which basically means I'm trying to build up a readership from scratch, as I am a new author. The book is selling quietly on Amazon with little advertising, and both my professional and reader reviews have been great, so I'm starting to ramp things up a bit, and one of the suggested practices for an author less concerned about profit and more about readership is to, well, give stuff away. Which brings me to you.

I've arranged for a giveaway of the novel in ebook format and when thinking of a good place to share, VATSIM came to mind. If you were to check the stats of the plane in the novel, N356HK, you see it was my registration for many flights here on VATSIM, and since my experience with all of the ATC and fellow pilots helped inform the novel's airborne parts, why not give it out here.

To obtain the book go here to Prolific Works. No commitments other than registering your email address with the site. If you have an account with Amazon, Nook, Apple Books, or Kobo, new authors survive on reviews, so one on any of those sites would be appreciated.

I look forward to your feedback, which I'm sure will include corrections on pilot comms I got wrong. You can reach me at my home page, http://jameschesterton.com.

The book does have adult themes, so 18 and over please. Don't want angry parents coming after me. 🙂

Thanks and I hope you take me up and enjoy.

Jim Huk (Chesterton is a pseudonym)