Sa'id Salaam
Sa'id is one of my absolute favorites if not THEE favorite! Luckily for you, he has some boxed sets you can check out to save some money and have the next book already, for his books are real page turners!He writes street, he writes street smart, he writes book smart and he is brilliant in how well put together his series are. I usually hate when authors intertwine characters in their series to promote sales of their other book because they usually suck at it! It's blatant, tacky and poorly done.
However, Sa'id blends his characters perfectly and doesn't bombard you with cameos of characters from other series.
I tend to be hard on authors because I write and I am a grammar (and punctuation) Nazi! A lot of them don't utilize the power of editing! Sa'id is NOT one of those authors. His stories are not the cliche versions of the urban story of the drug dealer, the rapper, the girl who hustles, etc.. He takes those tales and put an unusual spin on them. He (through his character development) keeps you laughing, he makes you yell because he pisses you off and in some instances, he makes you aroused!
I suggest reading his series in the order he wrote them. He is awesome at character development! It's a strong suit of his and you fall in love with them all, even the ones you despise!
Here are the links to his books. I suggest checking the publication dates to make sure you're reading them in order. It helps tremendously to start from the top. It makes story lines easier to follow. Plain and simple!
I have yet to read a novel of his that I have not given 5 stars. I have yet to read a novel of his that was predictable. I was always left with my mouth hanging open waiting rather impatiently for the next book in that series to come out. He's a breath of fresh air to the Urban Fiction community and a pretty nice guy if you ever had the pleasure of interacting with him (I friended him on Facebook and he takes time to thank his fans and get feedback and interact with them often.)!
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The Chronicles of a Junky Series
Chronicles of a Junky: The Chronicles of a Junky: The Beginning::
William Champion, known as Willie, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He had the best of everything and a bright future lay ahead of him.
He escapes death’s hands at a young age, only to get caught up with life. Young, naive and inexperienced, Willie gets turned out by the excitement of the hood.
The lure of a lifestyle filled with drugs, hookers and sex continuously consumes him. Lies and betrayal is his norm. Can he change before he loses his picture perfect life or is it too late?
Remember, this is just the beginning . . .
Chronicles of a Junky II
Prepare yourself for the unexpected in this breath taking, explosive ending to a phenomenal shorty story ebook series.
Can Willie defeat the demons attacking him and free himself from the yoke of addiction? Or will he destroy himself and everyone around him?
The Dope Boy Series
Dope Boy Trilogy:
Part 1: Cameron Forrest had the mind of a mathematician, the heart of a lion and the soul of a hustler. If he had been raised across town in one of Atlanta’s affluent areas, he would probably have been a doctor or lawyer…maybe even president.
Instead, he grew up in one of Atlanta’s most depressed ghettos. Cam was a natural born leader, so it was no surprise that he rose to the top of the drug trade. He ran the notorious B.C.’s with an iron fist. As a result he was a millionaire by age 21.Join young Cam as he robs, steals and kills on his rise to the top. He grinds his way up the ladder…killing anyone who gets in his way.
Part 2: With more money comes more problems. Getting to the top is only half the battle. Staying on top is harder once you’re there.Beef behind a women sends the B.C.B.'s to war against their New York connect. Bodies are dropping on both sides as the war heats up.
Part 3:
What goes up, must surely come down. In order for one to rise, one must fall. In Part 3 all sides will butt heads, all battling to control ATL's lucrative drug trade.
Only this isn't just business . . . this time it's personal.
Tbe Dope Girl Series:
Dope Girl Prequel
In the prequel to Dope Girl we pick right up where we left off in Dope Boy 3. As Cam heads south to confront his enemies Tywanna begins her new life. Join us as we take a glimpse into the life of THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING!
Dope Girl: The Beginning
To understand her future we need to explore her past. In this first installment of the DOPE GIRL saga we travel back in time literally and figuratively to Longs Mississippi.
Monsters aren't born they've developed. Witness the events that shaped the mind of this beautiful yet deadly girl. Experience the childhood trauma that the whole world would one day feel. Once Tywanna meets the original DOPE BOY she is forever changed. Changed for the better or worse depends on which side of her gun you find yourself on.
Watch as she morphs from sweet country girl Tywanna into street savy Cameisha. She's smart, pretty, and viscous. She is the DOPE GIRL.
THE GIRL WHO WOULD BE KING!!
Dope Girl 2: Just Like My Daddy
Cameisha is back in part two to the dope girl series.
After seeing so much death and destruction she swears off selling drugs in favor of school.
Her and new roommate the notorious Jackie from JACK AND ILL get off to a rocky start but soon become best of friends. The allure of the game starts calling her name but will she be strong enough to resist? Or will she become JUST LIKE DADDY.
Dope Girl 3
In this installment of the Dope Girl saga Cameisha and crew are faced with some difficult situations and decisions.
Dasias' drug habit has come to light and must be addressed. Bilal has to choose between his career and the girl he loves. Jackie has decided to be a full fledged member and Aqua is still Aqua.
Armed with a new synthetic coke the crew is set to become major players but not without a cost. The super drug gets user super high, but something is wrong, people are dying.
Marisol makes a starting discovery that has a deadly price tag. Cameisha has a new man in her life who shares her ambition. With her product and his hustle they can't do anything but TURNUP!
Rapper's Delite
David Light, professionally known as D-Lite, wanted nothing else in life except to rap. His journey takes him from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the bright city lights of HotLanta!
Childhood friends, Desean and Shelby are along for the ride as faithful sidekicks. However, life at the top of the charts is more than they bargained for.
Success transforms David into the image created for him by his label. The lines between art and life blur as envy turns to jealousy and jealousy turns to murder.
Written by music business insider, Sa’id Salaam, Rapper’s D-Lite is wildly entertaining but slyly intertwined with a moral message. In the end, decide for yourself if success is worth the price of fame.
The Stud Series:
Stud
Andrea Coleman, AKA Dre, grew up on the mean streets of Harlem, NY. Hanging with her drug dealing older brother, she was more partial to boxing and basketball than ballet and Barbies.
Following in the footsteps of her brother, she eventually inherited the block's hustling cocaine trade. That meant thinking like a man. Most men like guns, grenades and girls—Dre was no exception.
With childhood friend Ramel by her side, Dre takes New York by storm. She's gunning for the number one spot and will stop at nothing to get it.
Stud 2
Will Dre be able to maintain with Ramel upstate doing a bid on gun charges? Can she hold down the block and keep it business as usual? Will she keep the child and change her life? Or will she lose her mind and start blowing sh%# up!
Stud 3 (Includes the short story Ra: The Bid):
Dre is faced with some difficult choices in this final chapter of STUD
saga. On one hand is Ja'bari, rich, handsome and dangerous. Will she
yield to his demands? Can she live life as a kept woman?
Will Dre continue to struggle with her sexuality or has motherhood
defined her? Can she and Ra ever be more than friends and business
partners?
STUD 3 is an action packed ride told by both Dre and Ra. So sit back,
buckle up and enjoy the ride because somebody gotta die!
Stud 4: Ra and Dre:
In this next episode to the stud saga Ra and Dre have decided to get married. All they need to do now is pick up their money from the armored truck robbery and live happily ever after. Simple right? A simple jumping of the broom, only nothing with Ra and Dre is ever simple.
Join them as they jet up and down the eastern seaboard in one adventure after another. Buckle up, STUD 4!
Traphouse
Trap House is an unflinching account of the goings on of an Atlanta drug den and the lives of those who frequent it. Its cast of characters include the Notorious P.I.G., the proprietor of the house, who uses his power to satisfy his licentious fetishes. Of his customers, there's Wanda, an exotic dancer who loathes P.I.G., but only tolerates him because he has the best dope in town. Wanda's boyfriend Mike is the owner of an upscale strip club, as well as a full time pimp.
Tiffany and Marcus are the teenage couple who began frequenting the Trap House after snorting a few lines at a party. Can their love for each other withstand the demands of their fledging addiction, or will it tear them apart?
P.I.G.'s wife Blast, doorman Earl and a host of other colorful characters round out the inhabitants of the Trap House.
Trap House is the bastard child of real life and the author's vivid imagination. Its author, Sa'id Salaam, paints a graphic portrait of the inner-workings of an under-world. He takes you so close you can almost hear the sizzle of the cocaine as it's smoked—almost smell the putrid aroma of crack as it's exhaled. Yet for all the grit and grime, Trap House has the audacity to be a love story. Through the sordid sex and brutality is an underlying tale of redemption and self empowerment. Trap House drives home the reality that everyone is a slave to something.
Who's your master?
Jack and Ill
Jack and Ill is a story that takes readers into the lives of two young teens doing whatever neccesary to make ends meet. Since the day Jackie met William in school, she now looks to him as her savior. It was on that day that William saved Jackie from a world full of embarrassing taunts & name calling. Now feeling that she owes him her life, the two fall in love, and Jackie will commit the the most ultimate of crimes........even murder!
But, is it really love when your man will allow you to do anything and, everything just to get that paper? Even sleeping with the next man? Jackie's life quickly
Sex, deceit, murder & betrayal, all lie behind the pages of Sa'id Salaam's newly revised edition of 'Jack and Ill', that's sure to keep you on the edge of your seat, with mind blowing action from beginning to end!
The Preacher's Wife (The Chronicles of a Junkie):
In this next installment of the CHRONICLES OF A JUNKY series we meet Teresa Sanders. She was born into a royal family among Atlanta Georgia's clergy. As the only child of a well respected minister and his wife she had the best of everything at her disposal. Curiosity entices young Teresa to explore life on the other side of the tracks. A whole new, exciting world of men, sex, and drugs opens for her. After she experiences what the hood has to offer including an act of violence that almost claims her life she is deeply affected and forever changed. She survives her forays into the ghetto and leaves it all behind for college. Family prestige and excellent grades grant her access to one of the most prestigious schools in the country. The pretty co-ed attracts men of all sorts, but only has eyes for one. Darrin Sanders was a rising star in ministry and in high demand himself. Fate pushes them together and they fall in love. The gorgeous couple marries after graduation and lives happily ever after. For a while. Teresa is once again lured back into Atlanta's under belly. Can she make it out again? Or will she destroy herself and everyone around her? If you thought Willie Champion was bad, wait until you meet THE PREACHERS WIFE. LAWD HAVE MERCY!
In this short story we meet Hazel Sanders. After the untimely deaths of her prominent parents her life is turned upside down. She's stripped of her life of privilege and finds herself in the Atlanta ghetto. The once prim and proper diva
quickly learns to use what she has to get what she wants.
Once the highly addictive and dangerous drug known as Molly is introduced things go from bad to worse.
Will she be able shake the yolk of addiction or will she end up like her mother? One thing for sure, it ain't easy being a preachers' daughter.
The Chronicles of a Killer Trilogy
When the term serial killer is used, names like Bundy, Ramirez and Jeffery come to mind. Xavier aka Killa has more bodies then all of them combined!
Travel with Killa on his murderous rampage down the east coast from New York to Georgia. Now facing the death penalty for an Atlanta murder, Killa undergoes psychiatric evaluation that causes his doctor to go from skeptic to fan and finally his ally as Xavier details his CHRONICLES OF A KILLER!
Session after session Killa gives Doc a look inside his murderous world. The same doctor who was reluctant and biased had become friendly and extremely comfortable with his #1 heartless client. Just when things appear to be cool and calm, all hell breaks loose. Everyone assumed since the man nicknamed Killa was locked up, his murder rampage was over but what they failed to realize was that it had again begun.
The time had come for Doc to make his final analysis of the man who was destined for the states’ cruelest punishment…lethal injection. The sessions were over and the justice system was put to the test. Killa refused to be a sitting duck, especially after devising such a carefully plotted plan. Time was ticking for Killa…it was now or never!
Killa Season: Chronicles of A Hit Man:
Join your favorite mass murderer in his new occupation as a stick up kid. We pick up where we left off in Chronicles of a Killer. He may be on the run but he ain't running!
Killa Season 2: The Purge:
Killa wants nothing but revenge after the brutal murder of his first born son. This time the hunter is being hunted. Since he can't find the elusive killer Yolo he takes his frustrations out on some people who really deserves it.
America is in need of a good purge, and it's about to get one!
Yolo: The Lovely Little Lunatic
Yolo Jackson entered into the world feet first when she was snatched from the womb of her dead mother. After being saved by a caring nurse she was given a new lease on life. Being born from death you would think there was nowhere for her life to go but up.
However the sickly baby survived only to be placed into the dangerous New York state foster care system where she was passed along from one dysfunctional foster home to the next. Things quickly went from bad to worse when she was placed at the Brown's residence, which also happened to be the town's brothel. At the Brown's the impressionable young girl witnessed every scandalous sex act imaginable along with brutal acts of violence as her foster parents waited for her to become of a ripe age to be sold.
As fate would have it Yolo was saved from a life of prostitution when her foster mother died an untimely death. Upon the woman's death Yolo was then placed in the care of an aging gentleman who just happened to be a hitman for the notorious Black Mob. The elderly man took the young girl under his wing and starts grooming her to one day be his replacement.
All young girls develop crushes and Yolo was no different with the exception that her crush wasn't a rapper or an actor. Instead Yolo had fallen for a methodical killer by the name of Killa and vowed to claim him as her own. Knowing that one day their paths would cross and they would meet she embarks on a murderous journey to impress him.
The two indeed meet and when they do all hell breaks loose.
Yolo takes you on a non-stop thrill ride from start to finish and it's ending will leave you speechless. So buckle up and prepare to take the ride of a lifetime with Yolo, the LOVELY LITTLE LUNATIC
The Lady Killer (A Public Service Announcement):
Gregory Williams is a monster. He has rugged good looks, wavy hair and green eyes that the women adore. They love him and he on return has absolutely no respect for them. He's rude, crass and selfish. He uses and abuses women for his own desires. One they come in contact with him they are forever changed. Greg is a real lady killer.
Yung Pimpin'
In this introduction we meet Yancey Parker, a bright kid with a bright future until fate reared it's ugly head. An unfortunate series of events ripped him from the safety and security of the middle Georgia farm he called home. He finds himself thrust into the underworld of Atlanta's underbelly. A whole new way of life is introduced to him by his legendary grandfather Cool Pimpin.
Atlanta will never be the same once he comes of age and takes over the world of pimping.
Meet Yung Pimpin.
Yung Pimpin' II: Training Day
In this next installment Yung Pimpin is under the expert tutoring of his legendary
grandfather Cool Pimpin. Be prepared for more hilarious twist and turns as we move on to TRAINING DAY!!!
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