Erick Gray is the author of GHETTO HEAVEN and BOOTY CALL. He lives in Queens, NY and is currently at work on his next novel. Author’s Website: www.myspace.com/ericksgray Author Q&A 1. What do you like to do in your free time? I like to read, write, and I’m a movie fanatic. I stay at the movies on a regular basis,  and I’ve seen almost every movie out in theaters or I’ll buy DVD’s and stay at home relaxing. I used to play ball, but since I’ve started my writing career I’ve been too busy to hit the courts. My daughter and I hang out a lot. I also love to play pool, hustle my books for that paper and I used to be a playboy. Lol. I’m trying to hang up that title. I put it all in my  books now.  If y’all would have asked me this question a year or two ago, I would have told you that I chase skirts in my free time. Lol. But I’m getting older and wiser…or am I? 2. What kind of . . .

Camille, Jade, and Shy are best friends and have always had each other’s backs. Jade and Shy’s boyfriends, Roscoe and James, are partners in a lucrative drug business, but one night they get caught up in a shoot-out that goes horribly wrong. Shy’s man, Roscoe, ends up in prison while James walks away clean, and things begin to fall apart between the girls. Jealousy, greed, revenge, and betrayal test the true bonds of friendship. Get ready, because these girls are about to take “nasty” to a whole new level. Pub Date: 05/2005 | ISBN: 0-312-34996-3

Sisters River and Starr leave home in their early teenage years after a lifetime of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of their drug-addicted mother. River joins a stick-up crew, robbing drug dealers and pimps after she tempts them with her beauty. But she doesn’t know that her crew has one secret they won’t even let her in on, and when she falls in love with Eric, one of her victims, she wants out of their dirty game. Her little sister Starr is working for a pimp named Rome by the time she’s 16. After one of her dates assaults and beats her in a motel room, she meets a woman in the hospital who wants to help her change her life. But the game has a hard pull, and Starr can’t get out so easily. Enter Yung Slim: cousin of Eric, out of jail on parole after 7 years, and looking to reclaim the streets for himself and make even on some old grudges. Yung Slim and Rome go to battle, and Eric, torn among his love . . .