
Ice-T and the woman he loves, Nicole (Coco) Marrow, are freshly published authors. “Angel” is her first novel while “Kings of Ice” is his second book. Both thrillers were phoned in.
“What the publisher did was assign me someone who really knew me,” says Coco, best known for putting her ‘licious curves on display. “There were numerous phone conversations. I relayed it chapter by chapter. I just talked forever.”
The rapper and star of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” informally known as Ice, explains the process further.
“You write your outline and you work back and forth with the ideas and stuff.
“Marish [Coco] said she could never write a book. I told her it was the same as with a record. You just get with the right producer.”
Both give full credit to the writers on the cover of their books (Laura Hayden and Mal Radcliff, respectively), while Coco almost brims over while talking about her approach to the novel and her marriage, too. She’s simply that enthusiastic.
“Mine came to me in a dream,” she says. “I always have crazy dreams. I wake up and tell my husband these amazing stories, but sometimes I just don’t want to wake up.”
Angel of “Angel” is rescued from a plane crash in the Hudson River. She comes to in the hospital with no memory but gifted with the supernatural ability to channel men’s desires. That ability to shape-shift into Carnality Inc. gives her the chops to solve a murder.
“When you can be that perfect woman for a man, you can get inside his head and solve anything,” she claims from experience. “For Ice, I am that perfect woman. I’ve turned into what he wants.”
(Ice, for his part, admits to only one hesitation regarding Coco. “Coco is like a nudist and she thinks everybody should be down with that. I don’t want to see everybody nude. It’s not necessarily a good sight.”)
If real women have curves, Coco is really, really real, as anyone who watched the first season of their reality show, “Ice Loves Coco” on E!, knows.
The 32-year-old swimsuit model who formerly worked for Playboy didn’t dress it up the way Camille Grammer did when she married a celebrity. In fact, Coco insists on taking it off. Thong Thursday, illustrated pictorally, is one of the more polite themes on her Cocosworld Twitter feed.
“I wanted acceptance for who I am and that you don’t have to be super-skinny to be pretty. These celebrities aren’t just born that way. Anorexia is not pretty and that’s what those girls are,” she says adamantly. “I tell women, ‘Show your curves, show your hips.’ And they thank me for it.”