Women Who Set All Women Back And Refuse To Go Away Chronicles - Karrine "Superhead" Steffans Has Another Book
I'm not really mad at Ms. Steffans, if folks will let you make a serious dollar portraying yourself in the most demeaning way possible, then go for it. She clearly doesn't give a damn what people think of her. And don't be fooled, she is most definitely getting paid. Also, you can scream and shout about her fifteen minutes of fame being up, but this sista is clocking some serious overtime in the fame sweepstakes. Further, let me be clear, I'm not hating the player here, I'm hating the game.
With all that said, it kills me that black folks will buy this crap. This "book" sounds just as terrible as the publication of our other nation-wide media black female embarrassment, Omarosa's The Bitch Switch. Omarosa's book was DOA on arrival at bookstores, but the point is she got a book deal in the first place. She had nothing of value to say and she isn't a writer. How many serious black writers don't get offers because book publishers are more interested in capitalizing on the infamy of a Omarosa or a Superhead-type instead of well-written novel by an unknown black author?
Now, Ms. Steffans last book didn't sell anywhere near the numbers of her first book, so maybe the first signs that the black reading public is getting tired of her sexual antics on paper are beginning to show. And I don't mind the idea of a "sex" or "keep your man" manual directed at black women, white women have plenty of books like this.
Yet, I would want the author of this kind of book to actually have a long history with a man of her own, not a long history of cultivating the men of other women for temporary sexual liaisons. Black women might need advice on finding love and maintaining a healthy relationship, but I strongly doubt Ms. Steffans is the one to be able to provide that information considering her own very public love-life history.
And why does the tag line to her book sound like something else other than "How to find, seduce, & keep the man you want." I can't shake the feeling that her publishers made her remove the additional line, "to kill, cook, and eat for Sunday dinner." And I guess calling this book the Black Widow Manual would not help it sell very well either, but she looks like a very attractive black widow spider ready to suck all your life-blood on that book cover.
