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Hey, Jeri, I finished "Stilettos" this weekend and it's really terrific! It has everything - comedy, drama, romance, action, a tragic love story, several different layers of conflict, and a strong character arc.

You've created unique characters that are identifiable and real in a fascinating place and time that few have experienced (although I really relate to the era, of course) -- What's amazing and wonderful is that I, a heterosexual male, TOTALLY identify with your hero, who is both tough and sensitive, completely original, and profoundly human.

It’s a fun, fast read and should definitely be picked up by a mainstream publisher.   Great work, Jeri! All the best, Darrell

Darrell Fetty Hollywood veteran,
with over 35 years experience as a writer, producer and actor.
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"Stilettos and Steel is one of those rare books that comes along full of hilarious, highly visual scenes, wildly compelling characters and great plot turns. Add in the vibrant clothes and music of the time and this has terrific movie potential."   Bayard Storey  Studio Analyst

Bayard Storey is a senior story analyst at Columbia Pictures with more than 20 years experience in the movie business. He has worked on the development and book adaptations of projects including, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, MEN IN BLACK II, STUART LITTLE and CASINO ROYALE. Bayard is also the former Story Editor of TriStar Pictures.

“Stilettos and Steel contains all the action and romance you could want in a noir novel — with a twist. Jesse is not your usual pimp. She’s a Valley girl runaway who has migrated to the underbelly of San Francisco.

Based on the author’s own tumultuous past, this novel satisfies in the way that only a story informed by true experience can. This is a whole new Wild West—inhabited by the first generation of women who said: I’m taking over this town.”
—John Paine, book editor with over 25 years of experience.

John Paine has edited dozens of New York Times best-sellers, including John Jakes “American Gold”, Eric Jerome Dickey “Cheaters”, Sylvia Browne “The Other Side and Back”, and Dave Pelzer “A Man Named Dave”

"Stilettos and Steel is an engaging read that takes us inside a world most of us can only imagine. It's a world at once glamorous and seductive, violent and frightening. Estes lived in this world, and has dedicated the novel to those comrades of hers who didn't make it out."

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Outsmart Magazine

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Antihero, anyone? Travel back to San Fran’s Tenderloin in the 1960s and enter a world of butch pimps, femme hustlers, and another chapter in the “we had to fight for our turf back then” story. A modern noir, this book has it all—characters you can care about and a story that keeps the pages turning. That being said, this may be the best book you can’t read this season: the writer and her girlfriend refuse to settle for a small publishing company and are trying to influence mainstream publishers to pick up her debut novel by sending it to reviewers. —Review: A.C.

"Stilettos and Steel was an excellent read. It really opened my eyes up to a life and time I've been ignorantly unaware of. I found myself holding my breath, laughing out loud and at times, shocked by the visually descriptive way Estes writes about her characters (all of which I love!) and their surroundings. I was definitely wishing for more once I finished the last chapter! A must read!"

—Rene Sanchez, Orange County, CA