Free on Kindle

The Great KINDLE SWINDLE ...

 

http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Six-ebook/dp/B0056J6KQ8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1336591333&sr=1-1

Charlie Six FREE on Kindle to celebrate my birthday

Charlie Six will be FREE on Amazon Kindle from May 3 to May 7th

 As my birthday present to everyone 

From Charlie, Rosie, Morris, Chins, Sasha the magic cat, 

and Poppynoir, my lovely publisher

follow the link below......

 

http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Six-ebook/dp/B0056J6KQ8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1311957115&sr=1-1

 

THE TRINITY PLACE BIRTHDAY READING

The Trinity Place Birthday Reading with Brixton Key.

To celebrate my birthday I’d thought it would be fun to read on Friday, May 4^th, in Trinity Place, downtown San Francisco, outside the G.F. Wilkinson Book and Ephemera Kiosk at 7PM. Afterwards they’ll be a party at a downtown bar where the drinks and stories will flow.

The same day my novel, Charlie Six, will be available for a free down from Amazon Kindle for five days to thank everyone whose bought the book, and would now like a Kindle version. And if you didn’t buy the book, it will still be free on Amazon Kindle to download from Friday May 4^th, through May 8^th.

34 Trinity Place is near Bush and Montgomery Streets.  

 Here’s a link to Mr. Wilkinson’s fabulously unique store.

   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/14/MN1L1MOOG5.DTL

London Calling with Brixton Key

Listen to the interview on Soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/brixton-key/brixton-key-on-wamcs

or the original podcast

http://www.wamc.org/post/brixton-key-charlie-six

The Chimes Of Freedom

New Video "Gin and It's" playing on YouTube NOW!!!

From the Poppynoir vaults a new video on YouTube before The Vin Club reading on Thursday, April 19, at 7PM, in San Francisco, on Broadway, with Dana Sitar, Michelle Murphy, and Hollie Hardy, with our MC for the evening, Claudia Holmes, Gin and It's ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mB5AFtnZ8Q 
 

COMING OF AGE WITH BRIXTON KEY

"Charlie is a mixture of tough street waif and cuddly cherub from an early age. He knows how to fight and shoplift, but at age ten, he still sleeps with a teddy bear named Concrete, and talks his mother into taking in a stray cat." Barney Quick, Indie Music, 3 April, 2012.

http://www.indie-music.com/ee/index.php/blog/comments/coming_of_age_with_brixton_key

www.WhereIsCharlieSix.com

http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Six-Brixton-Key/dp/0983570906/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311957115&sr=1-1 

GET LIT at The Vin Club

Come and GET LIT at The Vin Club, San Francisco with readings by authors Brixton Key, “Charlie Six,” Dana Sitar, “The Hart Compound,” Michelle Murphy, “Jackknife and Light,” and “survival poet” Hollie Hardy. The evenings compère will be the inimitable Claudia Holmes.

The Hart Compound: www.smashwords.com/books/view/135148

Charlie Six: www.WhereIsCharlieSix.com

Michelle Murphy:  http://murphypoetry.wordpress.com

Hollie Hardy’s poetry is published in Eleven Eleven, sPARKLE & bLINK, The Common, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Parthenon West Review, Transfer, One Ded Cow, Milvia Street, and other journals.

It's fab to read with great writers. Keeps you tippetty-toed. Wonderful ideas transpire and open up the mindwindows when you listen to writers as gifted as those joining me at the Vin. Hope to see you there.

   

Blown Up Like Al Capone

I've been editing a bunch of Charlie Six videos with my friend Larry "Trousers" Drabble. He's cool with the moving montage. The videos are for a promotion via Kindle for next month. In the meantime we had a great reading by my Claudia Holmes from the chapter "Blown up like Al Capone," which didn't quite fit into the series of readings by Max Harley Rogerson. It was put aside until Freddie Fable popped in to see me on a business trip to San Francisco from London. Freddie loves mobsters being a bit of a wide boy himself. He reckons I modeled Spider after him, which is weird as Spider is Jamaican and Freddie's paler than newspaper. Still he's deft with the video cut and after polishing off a couple of bottle of Charles Shaw he banged this together with some great music by Pippa Lang and John McManus for the soundtrack.

Here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbpzHLJhz4  

New Charlie Six Review in Life After 50

Stay in touch with friends and make new ones. Find solutions for anything and everything related to life at 50+. Share ways to make this special time of life productive and downright fun

   

1960's COMING OF AGE NOVEL EXPLORES FAMILY DYSFUNCTION AND LOVE

Jan 19, 2012, 9:04 a.m.

Set in London during the transitional era between World War II and the sexual/musical revolution, Charlie Six, by Brixton Key, is a coming-of-age novel centered on a young boy – the title character—with a need to escape life's daily challenges. He is being raised by an odd lot of characters; a gangster father on the run from the law, a mother with an addiction to nightlife and alcohol, and many ‘uncles’ and other relatives still struggling to cope with the aftermath of the war.
That seven-year-old Charlie smokes and drinks a sip of alcohol can be both liberating and shocking. It’s the way things once were.
There’s an uncanny truth between the pages. Charlie Six is not your normal coming of age story. It’s a tough, funny, and brutal story of an era that has now gone, although Key wonders if it really ever existed.
“I made it my business throughout the novel to create an imaginary world. It was never my intention to bring back to life a time that’s past,” says Brixton. Like other authors he admires, he wanted to blur ‘the realities of time and space until it seemed like everyday life.’”
Charlie Six does not believe in politicians or religious superstitions. Being around his family has proved old dogmas to be obsolete. He’s completely contemporary in his disdain of the way things are. The novel touches a nerve in people who lived through the 1960’s and the decades close to it. But equally important, Charlie Six speaks to a younger generation who are intrigued by the influences that shaped their parents and grandparents.
Despite the dysfunctional nature of Charlie's family, they are driven by love; love for the world and for each other. It is this love that seeps into every crevice of Charlie's upbringing, and it is this love that helps Charlie to realize his full potential during his teenage years, and eventually get out of the London slums, using his passion for music as his propeller.
“Everyone I knew was hopped on amphetamine,” says Key of his childhood experience, “when we weren’t out watching British bands playing rhythm and blues or soul music we sat in each other’s bedrooms playing the records we’d copped from America. This is what Charlie Six is all about. I funneled my growing up through him.”
With optimism and incredible honesty Charlie Six explores:
The 1960's music scene in the U.K.
Dealing with drug and alcohol abuse
Love—the most important part of family
The power of imagination
Growing up during a cultural transition

About the Author
Brixton Key was born in Isleworth, England in the 1950s to a party-loving scallywag Mum and an errant Dad. Expelled from boarding school, which he attended on a scholarship, Brixton landed a gig with the British music weekly Melody Maker, writing under the name of Mark Plummer. He left for America one step ahead of Margaret Thatcher’s clampdown to manage Chris Isaak in the 1980s, guiding the pop idol and actor’s career as MTV started ruling the airwaves. In the 90's Brixton suffered a life-threatening brain aneurism. After he recovered, on the advice of his stepson he began writing fiction. Brixton lives with his girlfriend Josephine in a downtown San Francisco loft. In the late night hours he reads his favorite authors under skyscraper shadows, and works on his sequel of the Charlie Six trilogy, There Ain't No God Here. A lifelong insomniac he has little time for sleep. Who would when another story is lurking around every dark corner?

Website: www.whereischarliesix.com/
Charlie Six is available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com

One Hour At A Time with Mary Woods

Guest: Brixton Key    In a fascinating interview Brixton will discuss his unusual upbringing as well as the U.K. music scene in the 1960's, a time fueled by drugs and rock and roll.  He will talk about dysfunctional families, what it was like working for the British music weekly Melody Maker; becoming Chris Isaak's music manager in America, getting a second chance at life (his battle and recovery from heroin addiction as well as a life-threatening brain aneurism), and his semi-autobiographical book Charlie Six.  More info can be found on his website www.whereischarliesix.com Brixton Key was born in Isleworth, England in the 1950s to a party-loving Mum and an errant Dad. Expelled fromboarding school, which he attended on a scholarship, Brixton landed a gig with the British music weekly Melody Maker,writing under the name of Mark Plummer. He left for America to manage Chris Isaak in the 1980s, guiding the pop idol and actor's career as MTV started ruling the airwaves. In the 90's Brixton suffered a life-threatening brain aneurism. After he recovered, on the advice of his stepson he began writing fiction. Brixton lives with his girlfriend Josephine in a downtown San Francisco loft. In the late night hours he reads his favorite authors under skyscraper shadows, and works on his sequel of theCharlie Six trilogy, There Ain't No God Here. The purpose of these Internet podcasts is to increase awareness about recovery from substance use disorders and mental illness and to decrease the stigma and increase awareness of the discrimination that exists for people with substance use disorders and mental illness.  Our hope is that people will understand that recovery is a process and that there is treatment that is as effective as what is being used for other chronic illnesses.

WestBridge Community Services is a private non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the recovery of individuals and families that experience co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders. All WestBridge programs utilize evidence-based treatments to help participants and families achieve their goals.