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Cash Money Content & Atria Books Present New York Times Bestselling Author Wahida Clark’s Latest Novel “Justify My Thug” “Justify My Thug” is the 5th novel from Clark ‘s bestselling “Thug Love Series” On April 26th New York Times and Essence magazine bestselling author Wahida Clark will offer, Justify My Thug, the 5th novel from her dramatic and erotic “Thug Love Series” released through Cash Money Content, a new imprint distributed through Atria/Simon & Schuster. Clark, the creator of the sub-genre of Street Literature dubbed “Thug Love Fiction,” has sold more than 350,000 copies from the series, which includes, Thugs and the Women Who Love Them (2005) and Every Thug Needs a Lady (2006), both of which appeared on the Essence magazine bestseller list. Thug Matrimony, hit

And plus, the title is HOT! “”When Wahida Clark, the Queen of Thug Love Fiction, was first presented to me, we knew that her stories would be right for Cash Money Content,” explains  Ronald “Slim” Williams of Cash Money Records and Cash Money Content. “Wahida lives up too her title and keeps it ‘hood.

We are proud to have her as part of the Cash Money Content family of authors and look forward to a prosperous future. “Crowned the “Queen of Thug Love Fiction” by fellow author Nikki Turner, Clark was the first author in the Street Literature genre to publish a series of novels.   Aside from her “Thug Love Series,” Wahida has written several bestselling novels including the New York Times Extended List Bestseller Payback Is A Mutha, and the follow up Payback With Ya Life.

She has edited her first anthology, What’s Really Hood! : A Collection of Tales from the Streets, currently in stores. A native of the tough streets of Trenton, New Jersey, Wahida Clark began writing fiction while serving a 10 ½ year sentence for money laundering, mail fraud and wire fraud at the federal prison camp in Lexington, Kentucky.

She was released in 2007, after having already written her first 3 novels of the “Thug Love Series” AND consulting with fellow inmate and multimillionaire business woman, Martha Stewart on her business plan for Wahida Clark Presents Publishing.  

Wahida Clark Presents is now a successful company with 11 titles currently in stores and is home to more than 10 authors of street fiction. As well as an accompli

In her effort to give back to her community, Wahida Clark serves as Vice President of the nonprofit organization Prodigal Sons and Daughters Redirection Services, a re-entry program for convicts and ex-convicts based in East Orange , NJ .   She is also Vice President of Phoenix Academy Inc., an organization that provides support groups and mentors for at-risk youth, whose ultimate mission is to establish charter and vocational training schools.

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