Charles Ota Heller

Amazon jumped the gun and released Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror early to several hundred readers who pre-ordered it. It is now available from Amazon, as well as Barnes & Noble online, and my publisher, the WriteLife imprint of BQB Publishing (https://writelife.com). I hope readers in the Annapolis-Washington-Baltimore area will join me…

I would like to invite my readers to the launch party for my new book, Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror. I will discuss the book and sign books attendees will bring with them as well as those sold by the bookstore. Please come. The launch will take place on: Saturday, June 10, at…

No matter how many books he/she has published, seeing the newest one fresh from the publisher always provides its author with a thrill. Although READY, FIRE, AIM! AN IMMIGRANT’S TALES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TERROR won’t launch until June 1, I received my personal copies today. And I am thrilled!

   That soap-box derby race driver is a young boy named Jay Geils, as he looked in the 1950s, when we became neighbors and friends. A few years later, Jay became a famous musician, leader of the J. Geils Band. Yesterday, my old friend passed away at the age of 71. In his memory (and his father’s),…

My new book, Ready, Fire, Aim! An Immigrant’s Tales of Entrepreneurial Terror, is now available for pre-order on Amazon in both soft-cover and e-book formats (will be shipped to readers on June 1). Ordering it is simple: (1)Control + click: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Fire-Aim-Immigrants-Entrepreneurial/dp/1608081818/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486484639&sr=8-1&keywords=9781608081813 (2)Click on either “Paperback” or “Kindle” (3)Click on “Pre-order: Add to cart.” Alternatively, you can…

I just finished reading a most disturbing book. As a boy hiding from the Nazis throughout World War II, I dreamed of a country where people were decent and free, and whose sons were fighting to defeat our oppressors. To me, the United States was “the shining city on the hill.” Of course, as an adult, I learned that my…

A virus carried by ticks breaks out in Pennsylvania. When it is traced to a terrorist group, a page-turning race to save the world from a potential bioterrorism disaster begins. The good guys in this thriller are a male CIA agent and a female epidemiologist, who travel to far corners of the earth in an…

  The publication date for READY, FIRE, AIM! AN IMMIGRANT’S TALES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TERROR, has been moved up to June 1, 2017! Soon, it will be possible to pre-order the book from Amazon–please stay tuned for the announcement. Thanks for your interest and following!!

Three years ago, when we added a vacation in the tropics to our usual ski holidays, we found ourselves on the island of St. Kitts. I had never in my professional life taken a vacation of more than ten days, so my wife Sue and I wondered how I would handle two full weeks. I behaved…

The movie, HIDDEN FIGURES, has received a lot more hype than the book upon which it is based. I have not seen the film, but my understanding is that it depicts the lives of only three of the many important characters in the book and that (surprise!) some of the story is fictionalized (Hollywoodized?). Margot…