The Tingsted Cipher · A novel by C.P. Helweg
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A literary science-fiction thriller of first contact, survival, and a mystery reaching back into Earth's past.
Paperback and hardcover editions planned for November 20, 2026. Order links will follow.
Author · Storyteller
I write stories that stretch genre, challenge narrative, and cut through to something real.
Explore the short reads“I don’t write because I have a story to tell. I write because I see something worth capturing.”
Published short reads
KDP Short Read · True Story
At seventeen, a cadet aboard a three-masted tall ship meets the North Atlantic at its worst. A true account of a four-day hurricane, the work aloft, and the strange clarity that arrives when the sea has stripped everything down to action.
KDP Short Read · Short Fiction
A quiet hiking stay in the Catalan Pyrenees slips sideways when Chris accepts an invitation to a night hunt. Wild boar, an old estate, questionable legality, and the kind of company that turns a holiday into a story.
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C.P. Helweg writes across the line between lived experience and fiction, with an eye for the moment when ordinary reality becomes something sharper.
His life began moving early: Atlantic sailing as a teenager, later work aboard merchant ships in the Far East, a career in computer technology and software architecture, and service at sea as the commander of a Coast Guard patrol vessel.
Maritime experience and technology both find their way into the work. Whether the setting is a storm deck, a barren moon, or somewhere much harder to name, the aim is the same: make the reader stand inside it.
Influences & instigators
I write fiction the way Michael Strunge wrote poetry—not for commentary, but for collision. Not for what a story should do, but for what it can make you feel in the gut.
Patrick Süskind gave me atmosphere. John Irving, the weight of story. Kurt Vonnegut, the smirk. David Foster Wallace showed me how meaning can fold in on itself and still connect.
But the heartbeat is Strunge: language that does not ask permission. It claims space.
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