Contact: Stacy Lasner, publicist
Phone: 212-698-7250
Stacy.Lasner@simonandschuster.com
“Mink gives Kaeyla a snappy and profane voice laced with sarcasm… Female readers will love her, but men may want to check their own woman’s purse for taser wires. Load your shelves with multiple copies.”
– Library Journal (pick of the month)
“[The] first disturbing installment of a gritty new urban series with a down and dirty intensity that’s heartbreaking.” – Publisher’s Weekly
The Nationally Bestselling Hoodwives series – Desperate Hoodwives, Shameless Hoodwives, and The Hood Life – co-authored by Meesha Mink, changed the face of urban fiction in the way that the Coldest Winter Ever and True to the Game laid the foundations for the genre. Now Mink returns with an explosive new urban fiction series that is sure to bring the heat.
In the hood, every day is about struggle and survival, and no one understands that daily grind more than twenty-two year old Kaeyla “Goldie” Dennis in REAL WIFEYS: On the Grind (Touchstone; January 11, 2010; $14.99 / paper; 9781439173114), the first book in the Real Wifeys series featuring different “wifeys” from different hoods with different struggles. Fierce and uncensored, REAL WIFEYS: On the Grind is an intimate look at the scandalous life of a “wifey” who uses her sex appeal and street smarts to strike it big.
Goldie has been the “wifey” of an older, wealthy man since she was sixteen, but the discovery of their long-time affair by his real wife brings to an end her hood-fabulous lifestyle in her low-rise project in Newark.
Determined to prove she can make it without the man and his money, Goldie tries every hustle she can think of, including selling knock-off clothing and bootleg DVDs, with little success. Then she gets an irresistible offer from a sexy strip-club owner and becomes the club’s biggest act. Ultimately realizing that she can make more money by taking her show on the road, she leaves the club and its owner behind, and begins running her own show in her apartment. Business booms and Goldie hits it big when her company, Goldie Girls, is hired to tour with a platinum selling rapper. But her constant quest for more money and power leads Goldie to make decisions that bring on enemies and puts her safety and her self-respect at risk all for the bottom line.
Mink has literary prowess, a flair for creating drama, and an intimate knowledge of what really goes down on the streets. Urban-lit fans will devour this raw new series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Meesha Mink is the national bestselling and award-winning author of eleven previous novels. She lives in New Jersey and South Carolina.
REAL WIFEYS: On the Grind
By Meesha Mink
January 11, 2011
978-1-4391-7311-4
Touchstone Books; $14.99 / paper
Contact: Stacy Lasner, 212-698-7250
stacy.lasner@simonandschuster.com
For more information about the book or author please visit:
www.simonandschuster.com or www.meeshamink.com
PRAISE for MEESHA MINK
“Can’t-miss new series” – Essence [Desperate Hoodwives]
“Zane fans will also enjoy this series opener for its moving stories and empathetically portrayed characters.”
– Library Journal [Desperate Hoodwives]
“Move over Wisteria Lane—drama and scandal have permanently moved to Bentley Manor. Desperate Hoodwives is a wonderfully written novel that is sassy, smart, and unadulterated!”
– Danielle Santiago, author of Grindin’ and Little Ghetto Girl
“A sexy tale that will keep you gasping as you turn the pages…” – Miasha, author of Sistah for Sale, Mommy’s Angel, Diary of a Mistress and Secret Society [Desperate Hoodwives]
“…This sassy, sexy streetwise story could kick some butt over on Wisteria Lane.”
– New York Post [Desperate Hoodwives]
“Desperate Hoodwives is a wonderfully written story with colorful characters that will keep you flipping the pages.”
– K’wan, Essence #1 bestselling author of Hood Rat, Gangsta, and Street Dreams
“I was blown away by this book…once you begin, you won’t want to put it down until the last sentence is read.”
– BSURE Book Club [Desperate Hoodwives]
“Desperate Hoodwives has quickly become one of the best books I’ve read this year…I look forward to reading more from Meesha Mink and De’nesha Diamond.” – Mahogany Book Club
“Top 10 Summer Sizzlers” – Essence magazine inclusion, June 2008 [Shameless Hoodwives]
“The women of Desperate Housewives and The Real Housewives of New York City have nothing on the shameless ladies of Atlanta’s Bentley Manor. Mink and Diamond tell it like it is with breathless passion.”
– Publishers Weekly [Shameless Hoodwives]
“This second installment in the “Hoodwives” series is as sexually explicit and entertaining as its predecessor.” (Recommended) – Library Journal [Shameless Hoodwives]
“Invigorating plots magnify the intensity of each scene that creates a breathless anticipation as you delve further and further into the sordid lives of the people that occupy this notorious neighborhood.” (TOP SHELF 5 0ut of 5 Star rating) –UrbanReviews.com [Shameless Hoodwives]
“40 Titles for Black History Month” – Library Journal inclusion [The Hood Life]
“A great page turner! It’s easy to get lost in this novel. The story is so vivid…it will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole ride of this book about four men in their story of struggle in Urban America.“
– The Savvy Book Club [The Hood Life]
REAL WIFEYS: On the Grind
By Meesha Mink; January 11, 2011
978-1-4391-7311-4; Touchstone Books; $14.99 / paper
Contact: Stacy Lasner, 212-698-7250; stacy.lasner@simonandschuster.com
