Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, NAACP Image Award winner, and professional journalist from Howard University, who has written fiction and nonfiction, hard news and op-eds, screenplays and stage plays, and many other forms of writing. He is also an excellent lecturer who has been invited to speak at more than eighty American colleges and universities. His present and ongoing goals include the continuation of developing, writing and publishing great literary content, as well as adapting and producing exceptional films, music, and educational events worldwide.
"More than ten years ago, Omar Tyree established a new revolution of urban readership that inspired me to write my first book and spawn my publishing empire. After reading this book, it's obvious Omar still has the gift of pen to capture the emotions, grit, and truths of urban America like the true originator." -- Vicki Stringer, President and CEO of Triple Crown Publications
"More than ten years ago, Omar Tyree established a new revolution of urban readership that inspired me to write my first book and spawn my publishing empire. After reading this book, it's obvious Omar still has the gift of pen to capture the emotions, grit, and truths of urban America like the true originator."
-- Vicki Stringer, President and CEO of Triple Crown Publications
This novel by best-selling African American author Tyree (What They Want) is about a best-selling African American author named Shareef Crawford. Discontented with his mostly female fan base and disrespected by his peers for writing romances, Shareef decides to attract male readers with a street lit novel he pens under the name the Street King (Tyree himself has done the same, first with the pseudonym the Urban Griot and now with his real name). Hanging out with Harlem friends for research, Shareef agonizes over whether to risk writing a realistic book that could get him killed by gang leaders afraid of exposure. But readers learn more about Shareef's warring feelings than about Harlem's warring street soldiers. That's because Shareef's inner conflict centers more on money, respect, and why black men don't read than on Harlem street life or what drives so many to violence. Male readers may find it hard to identify with a main character so similar to Tyree, while Tyree's female fans may be bored by the self-promotion. Purchase where demand requires.-Laurie Cavanaugh, Brockton P.L., MA Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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