Tracy Price-Thompson, a former Army 88N (Transportation) and 21B
(Engineer Corp) is also a highly decorated Desert Storm veteran whose successful
self-published novel, Black Coffee, was purchased as part of an unprecedented
three-book deal by Random House imprint Villard/Strivers Row.
Ms. Price-Thompson’s writing credits also include, “Bensonhurst: Black and Then
Blue” published in Children of the Dream: Our Stories of Growing Up Black in
America , (Simon and Schuster, 1999) and “A Military Mom” published in Fortitude
(Red Rock Press, 2000 ).
A Brooklyn, New York native and retired Army Engineer Officer, Tracy is an Alpha
Delta Mu honor society graduate from Rutgers University, as well as a Ralph
Bunche graduate fellow who holds degrees in Business Administration and Social
Work.
Tracy is one half of the creative editorial team, TnT Explosions , a
collaborative effort dedicated to quality editorial services and contributing
creative literary projects to the reading public. Under the canopy of TnT
Explosions, she has recently co-created, contributed to, and edited an anthology
of contemporary short stories entitled,
PROVERBS FOR THE
PEOPLE.
Tracy lives in Hawaii with her wonderfully supportive husband and several of
their six bright, beautiful, incredible children, and she is currently at work
on her next novel.
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transcript of an on-line chat with Tracy Price-Thompson
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A
Novel
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Atria (September 22, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416533052
ISBN-13: 978-1416533054
From award-winning, national
bestselling author Tracy Price-Thompson comes a sexy, thrilling
new novel featuring a working woman whose obsessive clients are
determined to get her all to themselves.
Bertha Sampson is a sensuous but severely disfigured woman who
turns to selling phone sex in order to satisfy some of her most
erotic fantasies. Blessed with a silky voice, a kinky wit, and
the ability to construct erotic portraits through words, she
lulls men into her fantasies and builds a colorful clientele
base as a phone sex worker. Bertha's distinctive voice allows
her to escape the bonds of her physical limitations. But
intimate attachments can be formed in many ways, even through a
phone line, and to her horror anonymous sex is not always
anonymous. Her sumptuous voice and phone skills are so
captivating that two of her clients become obsessed with meeting
her in the flesh. They both relentlessly track her down -- one
seeking her love, the other seeking her life.
Gather Together in My Name
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Atria; 1st Atria Books Trade Pbk. Ed edition (May 20, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416533044
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"The BEST book I've read in the last 5 years!" —Shunda Leigh, Booking
Matters Magazine
From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright
award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson comes a heartbreaking story of loyalty
and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice.
Coming of age in the heart of crime-ridden Brooklyn, Shyne Blackwood is one in a
set of triplets born into poverty and great tragedy. While his brothers are
raised to seek a life of promise, Shyne's path veers early on. A street-seasoned
hustler, he becomes known as a liar, a thief, and ultimately, a killer.
Personifying many of the negative stereotypes attributed to black men, Shyne is
accused and convicted of the brutal murder of a child, and an entire city
demands vengeance as he's sent to death row in a cold New York state prison.
On the eve of Shyne's execution, five people travel to Quincy Correctional
Facility to witness the event. As the clock counts down to midnight, and while
everyone has long since abandoned Shyne to his fate, a secret at the heart of
this unthinkable crime remains to be discovered. It is a secret that will test
the bonds of family, the strength of one man's character, and the redemptive
power of a love worth dying for.
Other People's
Skin: Four Novellas
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Atria (October 2, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416542078
In Other People's Skin, Tracy
Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with fellow authors
Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper, take on one of the most
controversial topics within the African-American community: the
self-hatred caused by intra-racial prejudice and the ongoing
obsession with skin tone and hair texture. In other words, the
skin/hair thang among black women.
It begins with TaRessa Stovall's "My People, My People," in
which a successful advertising executive acquires firsthand
knowledge of prejudice when her clients insist on using light-
rather than dark-skinned models. Next comes Tracy
Price-Thompson's award-winning story "Other People's Skin," a
tale set in 1970s Louisiana, where a dark-skinned young woman
must come to terms with the bigotry of her light-skinned family.
"New Birth," by Desiree Cooper reveals the intense roles that
money, class, and skin color play in the intra-racial
relationship between Catherine, a wealthy, light-skinned lawyer,
and Lettie, her dark-skinned house cleaner. Finally, Elizabeth
Atkin's "Take It Off" tells the story of a biracial girl who
hides her coarse, braided hair from her friends at a mixed-race
university in Detroit.
Other People's Skin is the most innovative and varied
anthology of sisterhood and unity to date. Each novella
entertains, challenges, and, most important, offers healing to
the reader -- no matter what her race, skin tone, or state of
mind.
Knockin' Boots
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ISBN: 0345477235
Format: Paperback, 352pp
Pub. Date: October 2005
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
THE SEX TOY...THE SELLOUT...THE DIVA...THE DOG
KEVIN LAWSON HAS A SECRET
This upstanding brother is drawn to seedy sex dens, adult bookstores, and kinky
encounters with multiple partners. To hide his cravings from the world, Kevin
uses his wife Fancy to solicit bedroom playmates and to indulge his ever-growing
fantasies. Fantasies that threaten to cross some serious boundaries and leave a
lot of lives in shambles.
A PREACHER'S DAUGHTER,
college graduate, and ex-club stripper, "Freak Nasty" Fancy Lawson has done it
all and loved every moment of it. But now Fancy must face the truth of her
husband's sexual addiction or risk losing the one constant in her ever-changing
world.
Emile Pinchback is a BROTHAH WITH ISSUES
Especially when it comes to his bootylicious, ghetto-fabulous Nubian sistahs. He
worships at the feet of the slender blond-haired Becky Ann, but when he's forced
to look past her milky skin and into her heart, his racial stereotypes get
busted wide open.
SASSY AND FULL OF BROOKLYN SPICE
Sparkle Henderson loves on the black hand side or not at all. Just a whiff of
jungle fever can send her flying into a rage, but when she gets caught in a
nasty web of sexual trickery. Sparkle surprises the world by finding love in a
very strange place, and is forced to re-examine some of her long-held, die-hard
beliefs.
A Woman's Worth
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ISBN: 0375506500
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: March 2004
Publisher: Ballantine Books, Inc.
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Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature
of the heart, A Woman?s Worth takes readers on a journey of startling depth.
From a speakeasy whorehouse in the bottoms of Alabama to a luxurious high-rise
apartment in Kenya, acclaimed author Tracy Price-Thompson crosses boundaries of
sexuality, gender, and culture to accentuate the core of black identity: the
enormous strength of family.
Abeni Omorru is a stunning Kenyan woman who is haunted by piercing memories.
Although her father?s wealth ensures her a life of prestige, childhood trauma
has left her emotionally damaged and sexually promiscuous. While Abeni takes on
many lovers, none come close to healing the wounds of her heart?and only a man
who understands her worth can truly claim her soul.
Bishop Johnson is also haunted by his past. Raised by prostitutes in a rural
Alabama town, he is a promising teenage boxer?until his dreams are shattered
when his parents are murdered during a violent robbery and he takes revenge on
the perpetrators. Bishop goes to jail, and when he is released he has a volatile
temper and a mean left hook to back it up.
Trouble continues to find Bishop, and he is forced to leave Alabama and travel
to Kenya with the Peace Corps. There he falls in love with Abeni, and they
marry. When Bishop learns the secret of Abeni?s past, he is force to make a
decision that may cost him more than one man should ever have to sacrifice.
Proverbs for People
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Tracy Price-Thompson and Taressa Stovall
ISBN: 0758202865
Format: Hardcover, 512pp
Pub. Date: June 2003
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." "Don't start
none, won't be none." "If you don't stand for something you'll fall for
anything." Whether it was in the church on a hard-shined wooden pew, or around
the kitchen table after, listening to the wisdom of mothers and fathers, aunts
and uncles, grandparents, friends, and leaders, the messages of the proverbs
resonate in the souls of most African-Americans—a sweet refrain heard through
striving, reaching, loving, and living. In this powerful collection of stories
based on African, African-American, and Biblical proverbs, some of today's most
exciting new African-American writers tackle the unifying themes, delicious wit
and undeniable wisdom of the proverbs, making them sing for a whole new
generation.
In the moving "Love Can Move Mountains," author Elizabeth Atkins Bowman explores
the meaning of the African-American saying, "Mountain, get out of my way!" in a
story about the miraculous, mysterious power of a mother's stand-firm love. In
Arethia Hornsby's "My Momma Said…," two friends go out on the town and get
schooled in a life lesson that proves the truth behind the ages-old
African-American proverb, "Never judge a book by its cover." Town gossip gets
the best of a loyal wife and gives credence to C.F. Pope's saying, "Never
declare war unless you mean to do battle," in Gwynne Forster's wry tale of
comeuppance, "First Thing Monday Morning." And in the flirty short story,
"Something Special," Venise Berry shows what the Cape Verde Islands maxim,
"Every week has its Friday" really means as one woman's weekly ritual promises
seven days' worth of sensual satisfaction.
Chocolate
Sangria
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ISBN: 0375506519
Format: Hardcover, 304pp
Pub. Date: February 2003
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
Edition Description: 1ST
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Riding the waves of her national bestseller, Black Coffee, Tracy
Price-Thompson keeps the rhythm rolling with this page-turning tale of sexuality
and self-identity that puts a startling spin on the bonds of friendship and the
devastating consequences of keeping secrets, telling lies, and betraying those
you love.
Juanita Lucas is a young woman living in a housing project in Brooklyn. Although
she has a very light complexion, she is proud of her blackness, even as she
takes a beating from the very sistahs she tries so hard to emulate. Her only
friend, Scooter Morrison, is an upwardly mobile brother who also happens to be
young, gifted, and . . . gay. While Juanita spends her time finding ways to fit
in with the girls in the ’hood, Scooter’s frustration over his sexuality makes
him an easy target, and in his tough inner-city neighborhood he finds himself
catching hell coming and going.
A chance encounter with two fine Puerto Rican men changes Juanita’s and
Scooter’s lives in ways they could never have imagined. There is Conan, a
hardworking man who wrestles with both his love for Juanita and his guilt over
his brother’s death, and Jorge, an unscrupulous bad-boy thug who has no problem
using what he’s got to get what he wants, until he comes dangerously close to
getting scorched by his own flames.
Fast-paced, suspenseful, and unpredictable, Chocolate Sangria explores the
hearts of two lovers who get caught in a great cultural divide, and the trials
they face when black love and Hispanic love spill across racial boundaries.
Black
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ISBN: 0375757775
Format: Paperback, 316pp
Pub. Date: January 2002
Publisher: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
“I may be a supersoldier but
I sure as hell ain’t no Superwoman. Yes, it’s true my hand is steady, I have the
eye of a marksman, and I can hit a moving target dead center at four hundred
meters, but when it comes to making clever love decisions, I’m not the sharpest
knife in the drawer. While I look pretty lofty in my spit-shined combat boots
and razor-sharp battle dress uniform, like a lot of young sisters from the
’hood, I’ve taken a few wrong turns down the back alleys of life.”
Meet Sergeant Sanderella Coffee, who has just completed a three-year overseas
tour and is now reporting to a military installation in Virginia. She is a
single mother whose goal is to attend the Army’s prestigious Officer Candidate
School, which will guarantee a better life for her and her children.
Sandie meets a man who matches her ambition and determination step for step in
the form of Drill Sergeant Romulus Caesar, who literally marches into her life
and turns it upside down. They fall in love, and Rom is everything Sandie could
want—supportive, confident, self-reliant—but he’s also married. Because of the
military’s tough policy on fraternization and adultery, Sandie could find her
carefully orchestrated career slipping away like sand in a breeze.
Tracy is also anthologized in Twilight Moods along with
Nancey Flowers
(editor),
Rochelle Alers,
William Fredrick Cooper,
Phill Duck, Lolita Files, Nancey Flowers,
Tracy Grant, Marlon Green, Tracy Green,
Linda Dominique Grosvenor,
Joylynn M. Jossel, Timmothy B. McCann, Jacquie Bamberg Moore,
Sandra A. Ottey, Courtney Parker, Eric E. Pete,
Michael Presley and Leone D'Mitrienne Williams.
Twilight
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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Flowers In Bloom Publishing
ISBN: 0970819129
Pub Date: August 20, 2002
These sensual narratives will make you "Twist" like Tracy Grant's story and
bring you back to read them over and over. Whether you're in the mood day or
night, whenever the time is right, pick up Twilight Moods and as Eric E.
Pete says, "Please Come Again."
If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing."
"Don't start none, won't be none." "If you don't stand for something
you'll fall for anything." Whether it was in the church on a hard-shined
wooden pew, or around the kitchen table after, listening to the wisdom
of mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, grandparents, friends, and
leaders, the messages of the proverbs resonate in the souls of most
African-Americans—a sweet refrain heard through striving, reaching,
loving, and living. In this powerful collection of stories based on
African, African-American, and Biblical proverbs, some of today's most
exciting new African-American writers tackle the unifying themes,
delicious wit and undeniable wisdom of the proverbs, making them sing
for a whole new generation.
In the moving "Love Can Move Mountains," author Elizabeth Atkins Bowman
explores the meaning of the African-American saying, "Mountain, get out
of my way!" in a story about the miraculous, mysterious power of a
mother's stand-firm love. In Arethia Hornsby's "My Momma Said…," two
friends go out on the town and get schooled in a life lesson that proves
the truth behind the ages-old African-American proverb, "Never judge a
book by its cover." Town gossip gets the best of a loyal wife and gives
credence to C.F. Pope's saying, "Never declare war unless you mean to do
battle," in Gwynne
Forster's wry tale of comeuppance, "First Thing Monday Morning." And
in the flirty short story, "Something Special," Venise Berry shows what
the Cape Verde Islands maxim, "Every week has its Friday" really means
as one woman's weekly ritual promises seven days' worth of sensual
satisfaction.
In addition to such established writers as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree,
Margaret Johnson-Hodge, Timmothy McCann,
Brandon
Massey, Kambon Obayani, Earl Sewell, Maxine Thompson, and others,
here, too, are rising stars in the African-American literary world,
including fourteen-year-old Kharel Price and fifteen-year-old Tierra
French, proving that the wisdom of the past lives on in the next
generation.
From the struggle to break the chains of the past, (Pat
G'Orge-Walker's "The Consequence") to the fight to keep hope alive
in the face of injustice, (Robert
Fleming's "A Crisis of Faith"), from the joys of loving an older
woman (Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown's "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do"),
to an African man's discovery of his own America (Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie's "Women Here Drive Buses"), this triumphant, stirring
anthology is a glorious reminder of the power of proverbs to heal, to
provoke, to unify, and to inspire.
Proverbs For The
People: Contemporary African-American Stories