SCHEMIN’ by Andrea Blackstone

Jalita Harrison is a nineteen-year-old biracial woman who was born into a dysfunctional environment, but aspired to overcome it. After raising herself on the streets of Baltimore, she decides she wants no part of a destructive lifestyle and is accepted into college in Virginia. During Christmas break, she is left temporarily homeless and nearly penniless. As a result Jalita returns to Baltimore, where people from her past doublecross her.

Frustrated and desperate, Jalita decides to start running game in the nearby suburbs, using her good looks, wit, and street smarts to survive. Schemin’ becomes an addictive habit that leads her to abandon her college plans and self-imposed morality. When she and a handsome but engaged NBA basketball star agree to hook up on the down low, Jalita becomes part of a dangerous love triangle. Before it’s all said and done, the script is flipped on each party involved and each person is left to live with consequences of behaving badly.

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PAPA DON’T PREACH by Thomas Long

On the streets of Baltimore it don’t get any more gangster than Nigel Hawkins.

Nigel Hawkins sold drugs, pimped women, committed strong arm robbery all in the name of chasing that ultimate high. Fresh off a ten-year bid, Nigel comes home a new man after he found religion. However, he is confronted by his past demons when he finds out that his son, JR., is spiraling down the same path of drug addiction and crime. Nigel’s newfound faith is tested by the shortcomings he uncovers is his minister and NA sponsor, Rev. Johnnie Mitchell.

Can Nigel’s love for his son save him from doom and destruction, or will the temptations of his past reel him back into the living hell that he escaped from? Papa Don’t Preach is a real life heartfelt drama about the underworld of drug addiction and Black male relationships that will pull at your emotional strings.

Thomas Long once again brings us another nonstop drama that will tug at the readers’ emotional chords and serve as a ray of hope for those afflicted by the perils of substance abuse in the inner cities of America.

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GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz

In GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT, Felicia Pearson, who plays Snoop in the HBO hit series The Wire, reveals her incredible, hard knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.

While Felicia Pearson is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable about Snoop is what she has overcome in real life. Born a three-pound, cross-eyed crack baby in East Baltimore, and raised in a foster home, Snoop proved she was as tough as the streets. Showing an early aptitude for drug dealing and violence, she thrived as a baby gangsta, until she landed in Jessup State Penitentiary for killing a woman in self-defense. There she rebelled violently against the system, and it took the murder of her childhood mentor, a local drug dealer called Uncle, for her to decide to turn her life around. Then, after being discovered in a nightclub by Michael K. Williams of The Wire and recruited for the show, fiction began to mirror life as Snoop, drawing on the Tribulations of her past, created one of television’s most frightening and intriguing villains.

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CASH RULES by Thomas Long

From the author of the smash hit A Thug’s Life, B-More’s own Thomas Long brings you Cash Rules, a high energy ride through the streets of Baltimore to the wild and crazy world of the music industry. You’ve read other stories about life in Baltimore and seen it on TV in The Wire, but no one lays it down on paper like Thomas Long because he’s lived it. In Cash Rules, he introduces us to the Killin’em Softly Crew – known to their fans as the KS Crew – a female rap group ready to get outta the hood and take over the rap game like it had never been done before.

T Love, Luscious, and D Boogie had nothing but love for each other as they grew up as best friends on the rough streets of Baltimore. However, as they climb the slippery rope of the rap industry and the spoils of success rain down on them, their lives go through the series of ups and downs that they never planned on. Add in the jealousy, envy, and betrayal that comes along with being in the limelight, and what unravels is a tale that is sure to keep you captivated from the beginning to the end.

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B-MORE CAREFUL by Shannon Holmes

Growing up on the cold, mean, inner city streets of Baltimore is Netta, leader of an all-girl clique called the Pussy Pound. With no father and a dope fiend for a mother, Netta learns at an early age how to use her beauty and her body to get the things she wants, money, cars, and jewelry. Chasing the almighty dollar, Netta meets Black, a local drug dealer with a deep-seated hatred for New Yorkers, who falls head ver heals in love with her. With a broken heart, Black discovers that Netta is only after his money, and he seeks the ultimate revenge against her.

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