Book: Bid Whist: The Mother's Game (Novel)

• Pre-Order; Publishing date August 15th ~ Jessica Holter's Bid Whist will be available in August of 2024. For now, you can get to know the characters through creative keepsakes here in our Coffy Pop Shop.
  
  It's anyone’s game when fate is the dealer in this trick-taking thriller by Jessica Holter. Bid Whist: The Mother’s Game is a page-turning novel about single mothers, their criminal sons, and the lives they touch and destroy. “Momma brought you into this world. Momma will take you out! That’s just something women say to scare their children, right?” Donaka asked the card players as her partner dealt a murderous plot around the table. Over empty glasses of Chardonnay, murder seemed like a morally justifiable plan...
  
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About the Author:

Jessica Holter is a writer, public speaker, visual artist, and theatrical producer, best known for creating The Punany Poets in 1995. Also known as Ghetto Girl Blue, she is a pioneering figure in Black erotic spoken word. Holter has authored multiple titles, including the poetry collection Verbal Penetration and the novel The Punany Experience, published by Zane’s Strebor Books through Simon & Schuster.

With the recent release of her new book, Truth is a Trap House, her classic series Punany: The Hip Hop Psalms is gaining new audiences. While the original coffee table book is out of print and coveted by collectors, Black Love American Style, The Onliners, and Secret of the Pearl are available on Amazon. Speak the Unspeakable is also a fan favorite for survivors of trauma.

Fans of her theater work will enjoy her Adult Night School Stage Play, which producers can bring to their own community stages. Holter, a talented visual artist, is particularly proud of Ghetto Girl Blue’s Art Book with Haiku Poetry.

Her mystery books include AKA Dead Man and 13 Rooms. Her first self-help book, Voices of Foster Care: Healing Trauma, aimed at foster care alumni, is set to be released in Spring 2025.

Get previews of Jessica Holter’s written work at CoffyBooks.com.