Sixteen Stories, No Pets

Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, unveiled a statute of Ronald Reagan in Grosvenor Square, London July 4th. Conspicuous by her absence was Reagan's ally, Lady Thatcher, but she sent word through British Foreign Secretary Haig.

Hard talking Tea Party congressman Allen West has toughest interview ever with NUJ award winner - novelist C.J. Beck - myfortlauderdale.blogspot. Why US need a strong leader. Why Republicans don't have one. Europe, islamism and the Presidential race.

Online retailers like Amazon are fast becoming part of the solution to the US economic recovery if novelist C.J. Beck's experience is any sign. Most sales are exports driven by YouTube ads. Is this a sign of a stronger U.S. dollar in the future?

Books & Books, one of south Florida's last authentic small book chains and co-host of the Miami Book Fair, now stock at their Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale store, C.J. Beck's latest novel SIXTEEN STORIES, NO PETS, a comic condo crime mystery.

YouTube Video from cjbeckbooks show how simple it is to gift clients, customers, relatives and friends from the comfort of your PC and even get them free. Outside is gridlock so here's how to get personal gifts through whatever the weather.

Amazon has broken the back of the old feudal publishing system. No more meager sums paid twice-yearly. Writers can now command up to 70% royalties and get paid monthly if they move to Kindle. iTunes takes a little longer.

Amazon Kindle's generous payment system has reset the balance in authors' favor. Goodbye low royalties paid six months late the old fashioned way. A savvy combination of YouTube and Amazon has propelled novelist C.J. Beck into a secure income.

C.J. Beck's 2002 epic techno-thriller SPIKED - set in apartheid era South Africa - outsells all his other titles including new release - SIXTEEN STORIES, NO PETS - a satire mystery set in a south Florida seaside condo. YouTube video cited as cause.

After a 3-month exclusive test market using Amazon's Kindle, novelist C.J. Beck says he is amazed with the sudden surge in back list sales of his novels SIZZLE and SPIKED. Says Steve Jobs' iPad sales numbers suggest aggregators are responsible.

The City of Fort Lauderdale's in-house attorney has given way on the City Charter. The forty acre prestigious public property - Bahia Mar - can now be leased to a public company for 100 years, according to his interpretation of section 8.06.