He's sold 25,000 copies of his first urban-fiction novel, My Brother's Keeper. She's enjoyed a successful transition from rapper -- whose most notable career highlight is an appearance on the platinum single, "No Diggity" -- to author of two novels, Situations and Blossom, which have gone on to sell over 70,000 copies, collectively.

Both have had their tales of struggles growing up in Brooklyn, New York. He ran the streets and eventually served 12 1/2 years. She was a single mother at a very young age doing whatever she could to make a way for herself and kids. Eventually, both would land on a path of new found success and new beginnings.

Childhood friends, Alfred Adams, Jr. and Queen Pen prepare for their second collaboration of a 30-city book tour starting in mid-August, consisting of book signings, radio interviews, a college tour, and speaking engagements at juvenile detention centers and Boys & Girls Clubs.

He's promoting the recent release of his second novel, Till Death Do Us Part, while she continues promoting her books, Situations and Blossom, as well as her third novel, Infiltrator, to be released early 2008.

For further information on Adams' Till Death Do Us Part, visit NYLAEntertainmentGroup.com, and for Queen Pen, visit myspace.com/QueenPen55.

The first leg of the pair's book tour will come through Atlanta:

08/08 - Walden Books @ CNN Center (3-5pm)
08/11 - Walden Books @ Northlake Mall (3-5pm)
08/11 - Walden Books @ Cumberland Mall (6-8pm)
08/13 - Metro Regional @ Youth Detention Ctr (5-7pm)
08/14 - Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Ctr (2-4pm)
08/14 - Paulding Regional Youth Detention Ctr (6-8pm)
08/17 - Nubian Bookstore @ Southlake Mall (1-4pm)
08/20 - Boys & Girls Club of Marietta (1-2:30pm)
08/20 - Augusta Regional Youth Detention Ctr (1-2:30pm)
09/15 - Walden Books @ Gwinnett Place Mall (2-4pm)
09/15 - Borders Books @ Stonecrest Mall (6-8pm)