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Shannon Holmes

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Shannon Holmes


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Shannon Holmes was born and raised in New York City’s most northern borough; the Bronx. Holmes’ entrance into the literary world was anything but ordinary. Armed only with a G.E.D. and the desire to change his life, Mr. Holmes crafted his first novel and signed his first literary contract from prison, while serving a five year sentence for various drug convictions. This was truly an amazing feat when you consider Mr. Holmes had never even written a short story in his life. He truly made the best of a bad situation.
He first achieved success with his first novel B-more Careful, which has gone on to sell a half a million copies to date. This may not sound like a lot of to the general public, but in the literary world Mr. Holmes is platinum. B
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Average rating: 4.28 · 9,472 ratings · 421 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
B-More Careful

4.40 avg rating — 5,337 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Bad Girlz

4.28 avg rating — 2,082 ratings — published 2003 — 13 editions
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Bad Girlz 4 Life

4.31 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions
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Dirty Game

3.93 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions
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Never Go Home Again

4.05 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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Caught Up

3.47 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions
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B-more Careful The Prequel

4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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B-More Careful: 20 Year Ann...

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Hard White: On the Streets ...

3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010
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B-More Careful: 20 Year Ann...

4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings2 editions
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“Tonya had wanted to look at her former residence for perspective. She had wanted to look at where she had come from. It made her appreciate everything that she had gone through thus far.”
Shannon Holmes, Bad Girlz 4 Life

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