Boss Lady (46 page)

“But you won't ever leave the family,” Petula commented to me.

I agreed with her on that. I said, “Flyy Girl
is
my family, and I've been connected to it for my entire life. So yeah, there's no quitting for me. I'm in it for life, like P. Diddy and Bad Boy.”

My girls chuckled at it, but they all understood how serious I was,
and that I would allow no one to get in my way. It was Flyy Girl or bust for me, and not just on a national level, but worldwide. Tracy had emails coming from London, Canada, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and Australia. And once we spread the clothing line and membership through our website, parties, functions, media events, mass marketing, and ultimately the
Flyy Girl
film, I saw no reason why we couldn't brand Flyy Girl International. All it took was the intelligence, stamina, and drive to do it. And as everyone had already noticed, I might have been young, but I had exactly what it took to make it all happen.

Omar Tyree
is a
New York Times
bestselling author, and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction. His books include
What They Want, Diary of a Groupie, Leslie, Just Say No!, For the Love of Money, Sweet St. Louis, Single Mom, A Do Right Man,
and
Flyy Girl.
He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

To learn more about Omar Tyree, visit his website at
www.omartyree.com
.

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Also by Omar Tyree

Diary of a Groupie

Leslie

Just Say No!

For the Love of Money

Sweet St. Louis

Single Mom

A Do Right Man

Flyy Girl

And the Urban Griot series

Cold Blooded

College Boy

One Crazy-A** Night

The Underground

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2005 by Omar Tyree

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Designed by Davina Mock
Cover photograph by Frank Veronsky
Author photograph by James Almer Brown III

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Tyree, Omar.

Boss Lady : a novel / Omar Tyree.

   p. cm.

1. African American motion picture producers and directors—Fiction. 2. African American motion picture actors and actresses—Fiction. 3. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. 4. African American screenwriters—Fiction. 5. Motion picture industry—Fiction. 6. African American women—Fiction. 7. Young women—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3570.Y59B67 2005

813'.54—dc22

2005042582

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2868-8

ISBN-10: 0-7432-2868-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2872-5 (Pbk)

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-2809-1 (ebook)

ISBN-10: 0-7432-2872-3 (Pbk)