Sorry, I have been unavailable to do my regular Flavor of Love post, but uh…The book is finally out and I have been doing a little signings to promote my book, along with some street hustling as well! My toes are tired, but I am determined to make sure many people have a copy and like it! Right now it is available on AMAZON.COM and some Walden Books Stores…make sure you get a copy anyway you can and show support!!!!
LeighAnne Boyd began writing her first novel “Once Upon a Time In The Bricks” in the late summer of 2000. With no computer at home, or enough money to purchase one, she managed to make it to the East Orange Public Library everyday to add a paragraph or two to her story. LeighAnne was discouraged by the financial situation she was in, and decided to put her dreams to the side for a few years.In the winter of Jan. 2004, Mrs. Boyd began the first day of her “new beginning” in Chicago, Illinois at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center(NTC). For four strenuous months, LeighAnne attended bootcamp with the intentions on becoming an Electrical Technician in the United States Navy. Upon completion of her four month battle, she attended schooling, and then ventured of into the fleet.While back and forth out to sea, LeighAnne Boyd would often daydream of making it big in the literary industry. This time she had no excuse. The USS Harry S. Truman was out to sea for a full five months before LeighAnne decided to get back on a computer and try her luck again. Within three and a half weeks, her story was complete. LeighAnne Boyd would stay on the computer for hours at a time until she finished her last sentence.So today, “Once Upon A Time In the Bricks” is a completed 270 page book, published by Iesha Brown of Outta Da Blue Publishing. She’s sold copies of her work on Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Lulu.com, Myspace.com as well as many other online websites. She has done various interviews with magazines such as No Labelz Magazine, The Flagship, Urban Essence.com and is awaiting a review from F.E.D.S. magazine . Mrs. Boyd also conducts interviews with other writers on her own website, Newjeruproductions.com.“Once Upon a Time In The Bricks” is LeighAnne Boyd’s debut novel, and she is in the midst of completing her sophomore novel, “Ugly Men Cheat Too”.
I finally finished True To The Game 2. I don’t think it is a bad book like some say. It isn’t messing with the first one at all, but it wasn’t a bad read in my eyes. I guess a lot of people are giving Teri Woods bad publicity because of her so- called ruthless ways in the industry. As you know…Rumor has it that none of these books actually belong to the author/publisher, and sources say that Teri Woods is a fake!!!??? But back to the book…Gena seemed to be even more naive in this novel. The first True To The Game, she fell for Quadir so hard that she put up with the cheating, lying and double life just to be his wife…Now, she is doing it all with Jerell…Quadir’s rival! Of course Gena didn’t know who he was and that left room for her to be played once again, by a hustler. Jerell is a very angry person…lol…he seems to be killing all of his Junior Mafia brothers over money that was owed to him once he was released from prison…and just like any other young brother making money, with a friend behind bars…They figure they can tap into his stash and replace it when or by the time he gets home…WRONG MOVE!!! It’s funny though…this sequel reminds me of what’s going on in my favorite HBO series…THE WIRE???!!! The feds and cops are grimy…THE WIRE…They are doing whatever they can to get the bad guys…THE WIRE…the bad guys are killing each other off over territory and money…THE WIRE…if you are obsessed with THE WIRE as much as I am, then you will see the similarities…Oh and at the end of the book…guess who’s back? No need to say more…The writing was good to me, the grammar and spelling was on point…the story line was up and down, but overall, I thought it was good…once again, not as good as the original though…My favorite of all times!!! I don’t care too much about what’s going on with Mrs. Woods…none of my B.I., but I like the book, and I’m not sure who I should be supporting anymore…so until I get this figured out…Like the rest of you…I will shy away from the bookstores for now…Until then…
