Vickie Stringer: The Queen of Hip-Hop Lit
• Triple Crown is getting ready to move into films. Tell me more about this.
Stringer: We just launched our film division, called Triple Crown Films. We are doing three of our novels straight to DVD with the hopes of getting a shelf at the video store. We’re in the bookstore, so why not the video store? … [It’s] wonderful because now I’m giving [screenwriters] and directors opportunities. That’s the most fun part … to give a person an opportunity. That’s so important to me because, you see, I lived my life feeling [like I had no opportunities], and I just felt nothing was available to me. I remember being so mad at God because I was like, “Can’t you do something? Why do I have to live in the ghetto? Why do I live like this? Can you open a door please?” So now I’m able to give people a chance. We’re actually using first-time screenwriters and first-time directors. We have some great scripts and B-list actors who are attached and interested, and you never know because we could be working with the next [director Quentin] Tarantino. … To be able to just broaden the field a little bit is wonderful because there’s talent out there that, sadly, people are never going to be exposed to.