Lakishia Smith

48, Female

Baltimore

United States

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Something About Me and My Book:

My name is Lakishia Smith and I a native of Baltimore, Maryland. At the tender age of 9, I realized that I had a passion for writing and by the time I was 12 I’d already completed my first script, 32 poems and had begun jotting down ideas for a novel.

In 2005 I self published my first novel “What Ever Happened 2 My King”, and despite enduring financial hardship to which interrupted the marketing and promotion needed to reach the highest sales potential, I went on to sell numerous copies through word of mouth. “What Ever Happened 2 My King,” received favorable notice in the B-more area.

In 2006 I released my second novel “Life’s Pains Destiny’s Gain,” the highly anticipated sequel to “What Ever happened 2 My King,” and plan to release my 3rd novel by the fall of 2007.

About What Ever Happened 2 My King

Growing up in the Westport Projects of Baltimore, Maryland, Ieesha has seen the gritty side of the lives of those hustling drugs and trying to survive. She has seen the lives of family, friends and boyfriends taken away by violence and crime. In “WHATEVER HAPPENED 2 MY KING,” readers are taken on an up close and personal journey into a world where trying to live could mean death as they are shown the life of a young girl who desperately wants to find love; unfortunately, she searches for it in the wrong places.

From the disorderly relationship with her first love LA, Ieesha’s world was nothing less then a roller coaster ride. That is until she runs into a hustler from upstate, King Divine; the man of every girl dreams, unfortunately at the time she wasn’t ready for a King. King bails out without a word and that’s when Ieesha would forever long for his love.

“What Ever Happened 2 My King” is an urban novel that’s not afraid to get right in the reader’s face with the reality of people living on the edge, about a woman’s quest to find true love and a better life. It explores levels of human experience that go beyond the grit, the violence, greed and ruthlessness of the streets. What makes the story unique is the way that it reaches deep into the heart of Ieesha McFadden, a young woman who’s thrown into a lifestyle and an environment that chews up the weak and spits them out!!

About Life's Pains Destiny's Gain

Ieesha McFadden, from Westport Projects, located in Baltimore, Maryland has already proven to the world that it’s not where you’re from it’s where you plan to go; growing up in one of B-more’s most debilitated neighborhoods that holds very little hope of survival or success, this young heroine becomes a very triumphant novelist. Ieesha’s all grown up now, but does she finally possess the ability to make grown up decisions?

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Born and raised in the community of Flatbush located in Brooklyn, New York; young, beautiful, and yet quite fragile, Jasmine aka Cinnamon, is the perfect definition of the slogan hard knock life. From the ghastly relationship with her estranged mother, to the disappearance of her dead beat baby-daddy, this young casualty faces the unthinkable and is sentenced to do hella time at the Rikers Island Prison for Women.

Both ladies meet up on the inside and struggle to survive the rough, tough, grounds of Rikers. Will they survive?

This page turner is full of drama, emotion, chaotic twist and most importantly life’s lesson.

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http://www.lakishiansmith.com

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