Strip club culture is a big part of nightlife in cities like Atlanta and Miami, and Magic City on a Monday night is a legendary stop. Near the end of 2009, a dancer and blogger named Brook caught our attention on Twitter, so we asked her to share her story in her own words.
According to Brook, she grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and spent years working in customer service before driving to Atlanta, where she has lived for about four years. She told us she came to the city for a break, ran through her savings, and decided to try dancing at Magic City after becoming a regular customer on Monday nights. Brook said it took months of day shifts to learn the style of dancing the club is known for, and that her first year brought in far more money than the years that followed.
Brook said she began writing about relationships, money and nightlife on MySpace, then started a blog of her own when readers encouraged her to. She described it as a personal blog and not a celebrity site. She told us it grew because she wrote openly about working as a dancer and about how dancers see relationships and the people who judge them.
She also said that popular entertainment bloggers Necole Bitchie and Sandra Rose each wrote about her, and that she took the extra attention in stride. Brook said she met Necole Bitchie in person at Magic City and that the two cleared the air.
The biggest news in her story is a book. Brook said publishers found her blog and offered her a publishing deal, and that she is writing to finish the manuscript so the book can come out by February. She is keeping the title and concept under wraps for now. She added that she hopes the book opens new doors for her and that she would like to work in satellite radio someday.
The details in this story come from Brook herself and have not been independently verified by Baller Alert. We will be curious to see what the book is about.
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