C.J. Beck
You can now start reading the novel masterwork SPIKED for the low price of $2.99. Watch the short movie-style trailer to get the big picture. Click on the photo which shows a copy of SPIKED resting on another copy of SPIKED laying flat to start on the first three chapters.
When SPIKED was relaunched on Kindle there was literally a huge spike in sales despite the $19.99 price.
In the past two years many new readers have signed onto Amazon and joined Kindle at low price levels. To introduce SPIKED to these new readers, in February 2012 a nine volume edition SPIKED priced at $2.99 each was launched.
There is now a Fan Page on FACEBOOK. If you like what you've read so far please click on "like" on the C J Beck FACEBOOK PAGE.
Carlo Armonici from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina in Brazil is the latest "fan" to join.
All you and your friends have to do is click to the site and then click on "like" at http://www.facebook.com/pages/C-J-Beck/174648392569059?sk=app_2373072738
"Most pictures I've done I've had no idea if anyone would want to see 'em. I'd figured I'd like to see it."
- Clint Eastwood
C.J. BECK ON HIS REASONS FOR WRITING 'SPIKED'
"I didn't always want to be a novelist.
Thirty years ago when I was living in Toronto, while trudging back through the deep snow to my home, a feeling of sadness overwhelmed me.
I was despairing about the lousy quality of reportage from North American media on South Africa. It was deeply uninformed and superficial. The people on all sides were far better than the way they being portrayed on the evening news.
I'd lived in South Africa for five years and knew the story was far more complex than ABC's Ted Koppel, CBS's Dan Rather and other talking heads were making out. The BBC's David Harrison had produced a five part series on "The White Tribe of South Africa" in 1977 which led in 1981 to the eponymous book. But still no one knew. There was no story just facts. And partial facts at best. Double entendre intended.
I needed to reveal a more multi-layered and truthful South Africa. But facts alone are never persuasive even if they are portrayed logically. People believe what they want to believe. What they are brought up to believe. My big breakthrough idea was to use narrative - storytelling to convey all this complexity.
After re-writing the manuscript under different working titles, and from different points-of-view - setting it down to work to feed the family - picking it back up when the pantry was stocked - the book was finally published in 2002 under the title SPIKED."
There's more about this in the interview with the American Library Association -http://www.ala.org/emiert/emiebulletin/emiehighlights/emiehighlights
