Zane

Zane. Making Our List 213 Times Zane is the and New York Times BestsellingAuthor of several titles: Addicted, The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth,Skyscraper, Nervous, Gettin’ Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, The Sisters of APF,Shame on it All, and The Heat Seekers. She has been published inseveral different languages including Japanese, Swedish, and Greek. Sheoriginally self-published three titles in 2000 and went on to sell more than250,000 copies; virtually by word of mouth alone. After almost four years, sheis embarking on her first tour this summer aboard “The Zane Love Bus.” Having first signed with Simon and Schusterin June 2001, Zane has contracted fifteen books to a single publisher in lessthan three years with all of them due to be published by Spring 2005. She hasbeen on the Essence Magazine bestsellers list consistently since shebegan her published career and currently holds the number one and number twopositions in the hardcover fiction section. She is the only author to ever havethree out of five of the top fiction sellers in one month and she accomplishedthe feat for several months in a row. Recently, Zane held down seven of the topfifteen African American fiction titles at Waldenbooks Nationwide including thefirst, second and third positions. She has sold more than two million bookssince April 2000. She is also the editor of Chocolate Flava,which sold nearly 100,000 copies during its first month of publication (January2004) and it recently went into its ninth printing. This is highly unusual forerotic fiction collections and Caramel Flava is already in the works. In addition to being an author, Zane is thePublisher of Strebor Books International LLC (www.streborbooks.com). She has twenty-eight authors signed to her house and the titles are distributedthrough Simon and Schuster. Zane is also the executive producer of “Sock it toMe”: a DVD based on one of the stories in The Sex Chronicles: Shattering theMyth. Zane’s Endeavors Books and Gifts, her newestventure, will open its doors for business in April 2004. Located in thehistoric Fell’s Point area of Baltimore at 1622 Thames Street, Zane is trulyexcited about the possibilities that owning a bookstore will bring. In the near future she plans to direct herfirst movie and is in serious talks for several major motion pictures andnumerous plays. She is sponsoring her first cruise in October of this yearabt 2004. Zane also publishes her sister Charmaine R. Parker. The major motion picture Addicted, the film adpatation of Zane’s bestselling novel, opened on October 10, 2014. Read our review of this film and our interview with the film’s star Boris Kodjoe. Read our “Interview with Zane” Interview with Zane

Zane. Making Our List 213 Times Zane is the and New York Times BestsellingAuthor of several titles: Addicted, The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth,Skyscraper, Nervous, Gettin' Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, The Sisters of APF,Shame on it All, and The Heat Seekers. She has been published inseveral different languages including Japanese, Swedish, and Greek. Sheoriginally self-published three titles in 2000 and went on to sell more than250,000 copies; virtually by word of mouth alone. After almost four years, sheis embarking on her first tour this summer aboard "The Zane Love Bus." Having first signed with Simon and Schusterin June 2001, Zane has contracted fifteen books to a single publisher in lessthan three years with all of them due to be published by Spring 2005. She hasbeen on the Essence Magazine bestsellers list consistently since shebegan her published career and currently holds the number one and number twopositions in the hardcover fiction section. She is the only author to ever havethree out of five of the top fiction sellers in one month and she accomplishedthe feat for several months in a row. Recently, Zane held down seven of the topfifteen African American fiction titles at Waldenbooks Nationwide including thefirst, second and third positions. She has sold more than two million bookssince April 2000. She is also the editor of Chocolate Flava,which sold nearly 100,000 copies during its first month of publication (January2004) and it recently went into its ninth printing. This is highly unusual forerotic fiction collections and Caramel Flava is already in the works. In addition to being an author, Zane is thePublisher of Strebor Books International LLC (www.streborbooks.com). She has twenty-eight authors signed to her house and the titles are distributedthrough Simon and Schuster. Zane is also the executive producer of "Sock it toMe": a DVD based on one of the stories in The Sex Chronicles: Shattering theMyth. Zane's Endeavors Books and Gifts, her newestventure, will open its doors for business in April 2004. Located in thehistoric Fell's Point area of Baltimore at 1622 Thames Street, Zane is trulyexcited about the possibilities that owning a bookstore will bring. In the near future she plans to direct herfirst movie and is in serious talks for several major motion pictures andnumerous plays. She is sponsoring her first cruise in October of this yearabt 2004. Zane also publishes her sister Charmaine R. Parker. The major motion picture Addicted, the film adpatation of Zane's bestselling novel, opened on October 10, 2014. Read our review of this film and our interview with the film's star Boris Kodjoe. Read our "Interview with Zane" Interview with Zane