Jeri Estes

Jeri Estes is a novelist, screenwriter and motivational speaker. She has raised a beautiful and successful daughter. Jeri divides her time between Studio City and San Francisco and is currently working on her next book.

"Stilettos and Steel is dedicated to my friends and comrades who never made it out of the Tenderloin." -Jeri Estes

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"I grew up during the late fifties in the San Fernando Valley when California was clean and open. As a child my world consisted of playing army in green fields at the end of my block. Max, my kid brother would trail behind me as my dog Nuisance ran ahead, anxious to reach our little house as evening fell. His dinner consisted of a can of dog food. Mine was a wholesome meal served on simple China by a loving mother. Nothing inherited from my handsome father or acquired from our Catholic values predicted the life of crime that was to be my future.

At sixteen the roads of fate lead me to San Francisco's notorious redlight district, the Tenderloin. There I discovered a hidden world of lesbian call girls and gangsters. Stilettos and Steel memorializes the characters who were my fellow travelers in this treacherous underworld. Fueled by power, glamour and sex, we banded together for survival.

A beacon of light which drew me away from the dark TL streets and back to my roots was the birth of my daughter Elena. After living a life of normalcy, raising my daughter and succeeding in business, I became compelled to write this book. I realized that the women of the TL during the sixties were an invisible tribe. The world would never know that we even existed. We would be lost and not included in San Francisco's history. - Jeri Estes

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