Product Description

This fact-based novel introduces you to Carmen. A female hustler, a baller, who gets caught up in the street game. She takes you through it all, with one thing on her mind: MONEY. She accomplishes her goals by any means necessary. It is a story of love, betrayal, triumph and hope. Carmen only wanted happiness, but didn't quite understand what real happiness and real love meant...Nor the cost. And ultimately...the consequences. A story of past pain, choices, priorities and life altering decisions. A story you will never forget.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #759038 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780979951749
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Review
"...26-year old female smuggled narcotics from New York to Columbus using vans with hidden compartments.." -- The Columbus Dispatch

"The metamorphosis of Nickie to Carmen is phenomenal." --Anthony X. Hall, 2001

From the Back Cover
This fact-based novel introduces you to "Carmen". A female hustler, a baller, that gets caught up in the street game. She takes you through it all, with one thing on her mind: MONEY. She accomplishes her goals by any means necessary. It is a story of love, betrayal, triumph and hope. Carmen only wanted happiness, but didn't quite understand what real happiness and real love meant...Nor the cost. And ultimately the consequences. A story of past pain,choices, priorities and life altering decisions. A story you will never forget.

About the Author
Queen of Hip-Hop Literature Vickie Stringer has revolutionized the literary industry as a pioneer of the Hip-Hop Literature genre. Beginning with the self-publishing of her first novel, the Essence Best Selling Let That Be the Reason, followed by the founding of her internationally renowned publishing company, Triple Crown Publications, Stringer s innovative voice and controversial style has earned her intrigue and fascination around the globe. The successes and achievements of Stringer s novels, Let That Be the Reason, its sequel, Imagine This, the scandalously provocative Dirty Red and the wide popularity of the Triple Crown Publications brand have garnered attention from prominent news media since Stringer ignited the Hip-Hop Literature era five years ago. Stringer and Triple Crown Publications have been featured in such prominent news media as The New York Times, Newsweek, MTV News, Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, Vibe, Essence, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, The Washington Post, Millionaire Blueprints Magazine and Writer s Digest, among many others. As the leader of the Urban Fiction Renaissance, Stringer and Triple Crown Publications became international in April of 2005 as her novels were translated and released in Tokyo, Japan. As a prominent literary agent, Stringer has brokered over one million dollars in book deals. As an inspiration and motivator to aspiring authors and self-publishers, Stringer has revealed the secrets to her success in How to Succeed in the Publishing Game. In 2004, Stringer also founded The Valen Foundation, a non-profit organization named for her son, to reunite and restore bonds between children and their incarcerated parents.

Customer Reviews

Let that Be the Reason You Buy This Book
My cousin gave me Let that Be the Reason and told me I had to read it. I couldn't put it down from the second I started reading it. It is like a ghetto anthem. It portrays the everyday life of a woman whose been scorned that gets back up on her feet and does what she has to do to provide from hers. It is the story of a lot of girls in the ghetto. The girl falls in love, has a child, the man leaves her with nothing and she has to find a way to make it to the top. Carmen is that woman and you will simply fall in love with that character. I got to the point where I could see no wrong in her even though I knew what she was doing wasn't the best thing. What's so dynamic about this book is that Carmen can be your sister, your best friend, the girl down the block or even you. This book is a "must read" and you better believe I'm reading every book published by Triple Crown.

Let that bet the reason I loved it!!!
First I would like to start off by congratulating you on the success of your book and wishing you many blessings on your future projects! Girl, that book was da bomb ;o) I could not put it down without wondering what was going to happen next...I barely slept for three days because I didn't want to stop reading. I just knew Chino was a rat from the beginning... I even talked to Carmen as I read like she could hear me ;o)! I loved the way you reversed the roles and made a female the top baller, and the way you explained her life struggles were all too real! I really connected with her character in more ways then one. Hopefully your book will make someone stop and think before they choose that "glorious" lifestyle. I've seen it happen to many of my childhood friends...they get all rapped up in the game, live and spend lavishly for a short period of time and then on day it's all gone, faster then it started,whats sad is that the lucky ones are the ones incarcerated, cause somehow they escaped death and they just might get another chance at life. I wanna thank you for touching me so deeply and I really look forward to reading part two... I can't wait!!! God Bless you and your family always, and much love from new york!!!
msecrets

Off the hook
When I first started reading this book, I thought this is a stupid book. I decided to continue to read it because I hate to start a book and not finish it.

This book put you in the mind of a true hustler. Pamela aka Carmen was a single mother trying to make it by any means necessary. She was in love with a man named Chino who refused to be the man that Carmen needed him to be. After their break-up and her going without she thought the best thing to do was become a hustler. Despite many adversitites Carmen became the best hustler in her area.

If I was to tell you anymore I would be telling you the book. Buy it you won't be disappointed.

I can't wait for the sequel to this book.