I'm a big fan Of Teri Woods and her writing until I found it she wasn't a writer just someone who put her name on good books like True to the Game, Dutch, and Deadly Reigns..If you've heard of them than you'd love to read the Article in a blog by Caleb Alexander from interview he had detailing his issue with Ms. Woods:
T.U.B.S.: Rumors have been circulating for a while that you are the man behind Teri Wood's work? Is this true? When and how did you become acquainted with Teri Woods? What is your relationship with her now?
Caleb: Okay, here’s the fifty million dollar answer. I did write Deadly Reigns I, Deadly Reigns II, and Deadly Reigns III. I also wrote True To the Game 2, and True To the Game 3. I have the notes, the e-mails, the contracts, and everything else to prove it. So if she ever denies it, she’s going to look really silly, when I’m sitting here with a notarized contract that says different. Let me just put that out there, in case she gets any ideas.I became acquainted with Teri, right after B-More Careful came out. We became very close. I thought of her and Lou and the kids as family. We argued all the time, fought like cats and dogs, or rather brother and sister, and it was always about money. I guess that I’m a pain freak, because I kept dealing with her, despite our disagreement over Deadly Reigns. Deadly Reigns was always something that we were like, look, we’ll let the lawyers settle that when we get to it. I should have let the lawyers settle it a long time ago. Instead of being like, hey, let’s get this money right now, and deal with the bullshit later.
Teri promised me a lot. At one time, she promised me Teri Woods Publishing. She told me that once she got into films, I could have TWP. She promised me thirty percent of her company. We had a deal, that she would pay me a certain amount of money every month, and that amount would entail, thirty percent of what she was pulling in. She promised me fifty grand, once her multi-million dollar deal with Grand Central went through. Did I ever see it? No. I went up to New York, went and chilled with her and Lou, and she had a yard full of Benzes! I’m like, wait a minute. You play the broke roll with me, but you sitting up here in a 1.8 million dollar crib, with a movie theater in it, and some more shit; A yard full of Benzes, and you feeding me this bullshit every month? It was after Deadly Reigns, when she moved into the Empire State Building. All of that other bullshit that she put out, didn’t buy that house, or move her into the Empire, it was Dutch and Deadly Reigns that paid for all that shit. I helped her get her magazine off the ground. I wrote over fifty articles for that magazine and got paid zero. I was writing all her shit. People would want endorsements and back cover blurbs, and she would e-mail that shit to me, and I would write that shit. I’m not going to set anybody out there, but if you ever got a back cover blurb from Teri, I wrote it. Hell, I was writing her daughter’s speeches when she was running for Ms. Delaware State University, I’m writing all kinds of shit.
My relationship with Teri is bad right now. The last time I spoke to her, was the day after New Years. She was telling me, that she wasn’t going to be able to send me no money in January, or February, but she might be able to in March. She wants me to write this book for her deal with Grand Central, called Alibi. I ain’t writing that shit. What really tore her drawers with me was that fact that she tried to high cap with me in December. Teri don’t know what I got. I went Christmas shopping in October, and was through with that by the beginning of November. But she didn’t know that. She was supposed to send my money for December, and she didn’t. She knows that I have kids. As far as she knows, my kids didn’t get shit for Christmas. And she had the nerve to call me Christmas morning. She is lucky I missed that call. I would’ve invented some words to call her ass! She doesn’t give a shit about me, my family, our contract, or nothing else. So now, since she’s violated, I’m going to let it be known. She couldn’t write her name on a f__king piece of paper to save her life, let alone a book! All that talk about loyalty, is fake. I was loyal to her. Why I remained loyal for so long, I don’t know. It’s just in me to be loyal. I wanted her to do well, I wanted her to change, and I wanted to work for an African American company. You know, I would call her sometimes, and say “Teri, it’s time to run me my issue for this month.” And she would tell me she didn’t have it, but then call me a week later from the Bahamas. Or call me two days later from Disneyland. Hell, my kids want to go to Disneyland too! And the crazy thing about it is that True to the Game 2 made the New York Times Bestsellers list. It was the first time in history that a Street Lit book has made that list, and the first time an African American title has made the list, without being a hardcover first. When she called me, do you think she said thank you? No.
So here is where Teri and I are at right now. She’s talking about Kwame broke his contract over Dutch. Which by the way, I want to tell my brother, I’m glad you did what you did. That was some gangster ass shit, kinfolk! And I’m sitting over here on a couple of contracts that she has broken with me. So have your attorney get in touch with me, and I’ll give him a copy, and a deposition. So when she walks into court talking about a breached contract, you can slap mine in front of her. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Anyway, my lawyers are going to get at her about stealing Deadly Reigns from me. She was so shady with it, that she didn’t even tell me the book was out. I had to find out from a friend who showed me the magazine ad, with her name on my book. My lawyers are also going to get with her about violating our ghostwriting agreement. She didn’t pay me all my money. And since I ghostwrote True 2 and True 3, I hope that the lawyers get with Grand Central, and let them know that they are f__king with materials from a contract that she breached.
I really want to set her ass out, and tell all of the authors out there what she has said about them, but I won’t do that at this time. Teri just needs to realize, that I know where all of the bones are buried, all of the shady shit that she’s done over the years. She even tried to breach her and Kwame’s contract, and have me write Dutch III. She also thought about going back and re-writing Dutch II, and adding an ending to it, so there would be no need for Dutch III. Man, I know everything. Why she would want to trip with me is crazy, anyway, on to the next question.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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