Lots of Updates!

There are lots of things going on this year (new releases, reissues, new deals).  Every week there is something new and I just want to thank y’all for all the support over the years.  Sometimes I’m so busy writing the books that I can’t be online chatting with you the way I want but please know I appreciate every last one of you for having my back as you push me forward.  Thank you. 4 Real.

Romances by Niobia Bryant

• Red Hot drops September 4
• Heated became available in March as a lower priced edition ($3.99) exclusively via Wal-Mart stores
• There will be a new Strong romance after Red Hot that focuses on the parents (Kael and Lisha) when they first fell in love!
• NEW! Red Hot will be released as an audiobook on 12/1/2012

Mainstream by Niobia Bryant

• Mistress, INC. drops in 2 weeks. Jessa Bell is back…
• Mistress, INC is available via Black Expressions Book Club
• NEW! Mistress, INC. will be released as an audiobook 9/1/2012
• Message from a Mistress is available as a mass market edition exclusively at Wal-Mart stores across the country
• There will be a sequel to Live and Learn and Show and Tell next year
• Reckless is available as an audiobook
• Reckless will be available via BlackExpressions this summer

Urban Fiction by Meesha Mink

• Real Wifeys: Get Money joins Real Wifeys: On The Grind being available via Black Expressions
• Real Wifeys: Get Money will be released in audiobook soon
• Real Wifeys: Hustle Hard drops in January
• Desperate Hoodwives will be re-released as in mass-market paperback this October

Teen Fiction by Simone Bryant

• Glamorous, book 3 of The Pacesetters series, drops in 2013 (Finally!!!)

NEW RELEASE: Reckless (Anthology)

Tomorrow the sexy anthology RECKLESS will be released and you do not want to miss it…

RECKLESS | Dafina | 4/24/2012

GENRE: Mainstream/Commercial Fiction

ISBN-10:0758265417

Desire raises the stakes–and the danger. . .

Desperate Housewife by Cydney Rax Carmen Foster thinks she has it all–a perfect house, kids, and marriage. Until she stumbles upon racy texts from her husband, Forrest, to his baby mama, Toni–who desperately wants Forrest back. Carmen is devastated and decides she can forgive Forrest if she just has an affair of her own. But when a scheming Toni gets involved and threatens to reveal Carmen’s secret, revenge takes an unexpected and explosive turn…

Sinful by Niobia Bryant A psychologist specializing in addiction, Brie Bailey is surprised to find that her work is affecting her personal life in unexpected ways. For the first time, she has something to hide. And when her impulsive actions lead her into a web of danger, Brie finds herself losing control of everything. . .

L.A. Confidential by Grace Octavia Stevie Silver, Black Hollywood’s sitcom sweetheart, is in for a run of very bad luck. Her conniving assistant, Kristine, has her sights on Stevie’s career–and on her T.V. producer husband. Kristine will do whatever it takes to win, from blackmail to seduction. But when a series of lies and betrayals comes to a head in the canyons behind the Hollywood sign, more than stardom is at stake. . .

Read Niobia’s EXCERPT!

ORDER YOUR COPY:

Paperback: Amazon.com | Barnes and Noble | Indie Bound

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BOOK GIVEAWAY: Mistress, INC.

My publisher, Kensington Publishing Corp., is giving away ten (10) copies of Mistress, Inc. via GoodReads.com. You have until May 24th to enter.

For more info on the contest and how to enter, please visit: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/22167-mistress-inc

Good luck!!

The Murder of Trayvon Martin

 

Trayvon Martin, dead at the age of 17 from the gunshots of a neighborhood watch captain.

UPDATE: The tape of the 911 call  has been released. Click the link to listen to it via youtube.

A writer friend and I were just discussing that black males (of all ages) were in an unseen war in America.  It’s angers me–but mostly it scares the sh*t out of me–because innocent black males are STILL losing their lives in 2012. The story of Trayvon Martin makes me afraid for black males particularly in states like Florida that have the Stand Your Ground law. Is it really okay in America to gun down an unarmed young man because of the ignorance and unwarranted fear of a neighbour? And be clear, it was his ignorance that led to the initial confrontation of the young man.

Is this really the life we’re all living in 2012? Really?

In my eyes this was murder and the shooter should be arrested and charged with the crime he committed. Period. Point blank.

There are online petitions calling for the arrest of Trayvon’s killer. Please take a moment and let your voice be heard.  Also push your celebrities to give this story a spotlight. I heard it about it via a fellow author on Twitter. (Thanks Daaimah)

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. Rest in peace, Trayvon.

Below please find a CNN report by Roland Martin on Trayvon’s death:

Excerpt: Sinful from the RECKLESS anthology

Excerpt from the novella Sinful by Niobia Bryant. All Rights Reserved. © Reprinted by permission.

Prologue

“Tell me I’m the best.”

Bree Bailey closed her eyes and wished like hell that the sound of his voice didn‘t float around her head.  She couldn‘t remember his name, she could place his face, and she wished she scrub the memory of his sex from her life–but those words she remembered. Maybe his bravado was so ironic or maybe because in her search for the ultimate sexual experience finding “the best” was harder than most dicks she came across.

And there had been plenty.

Bree shifted her eyes up and locked them on her reflection in the mirror,  Her eyes glazed as the hundred different faces of the men she vaguely remembered fucking flashed before her.

Black. White. Asian. Latino. Tall. Short. Fat.

And the dicks to go along with them.

Large and small. Straight and curved.  Decent and completely laughable.

The number of her lovers numbered in the hundreds and she was only thirty years into her life.  Bree’s own mother always bragged that she was a woman of fifty who could count all of her lovers on one hand and still have fingers left over.  That was something they would never have in common.

But she had never been one to try and fill her mother’s shoes, she was too busy still trying to find a way to  live in her own. To be happy with herself. To not be detested with her compulsion.

She closed her eyes, swallowed hard and released a hum to do nothing to soothe her as she recalled going to her local Chinese restaurant to pick up a lonely girl special that led to a flirtation with a tall light-skinned brother who smelled of a warm musk. How the flirtation turned into a sweaty fuck session in the back of his SUV just twenty minutes later?

EXCERPT: Mistress, Inc.

Excerpt of Mistress, INC. by Meesha Mink. ©2012. Reprinted by permission.

All rights reserved.

Prologue

“I am standing outside the gated community of Richmond Hills which has been shocked by tonight’s fatal shooting inside one of the communities’ affluent homes. The police and the medical coroner are on the scene investigating the apparent self-inflicted shooting.  The name of the deceased is being withheld at this time but it’s being reported that the shooting occurred in the home of his alleged mistress–just a block down from the home he once shared with his estranged wife.  It seems the violence tonight was the culmination of the deceased stalking his mistress after she tried to end the affair.  After  being distraught by strangling her, the victim delivered one fatal shot to his head by a 9mm gun registered in his name. A next door neighbor happened to be walking by when the gun was shot and rushed inside to discover the bodies. And that was an act of sheer luck for Jessa Bell as her neighbor, who is definitely a hero, was able to perform CPR and revive her until the paramedics arrived on the scene.  She is now in stable condition at Fairmount Hospital. I will continue to report on this scandalous crime as details continue to unfold. This is Maria Vargas reporting for  WCBL. Now back to you–”

By the Numbers

Recently someone asked me how many books I’ve written and I realized I honestly didn’t know.  That’s BANANAS. lol. So I decided to count and thought I shared the randomness for those who are curious. Everything up until the end of 2012 is counted…

ALL BOOKS (full length books, co-written full length books, novella/anthologies)= 28

FULL LENGTH BOOKS (excludes reissues/reprints/anthologies/co-written books)= 21

• ROMANCE by Niobia Bryant = 12
• MAINSTREAM by Niobia Bryant= 5
• YA by Simone Bryant = 2
• URBAN FICTION by Meesha Mink = 2

TOTAL RELEASES (includes reissues/reprints/anthologies/co-written books) = 32

ANTHOLOGIES = 4

CO-WRITTEN BOOKS= 3

RE-ISSUES/REPRINTS= 4

TOTAL BLACKEXPRESSIONS EDITIONS = 10

TOTAL AUDIO BOOK RELEASES= 6

I’ve been published since 2000. It will officially be twelve years in August since my first book, Admission of Love, was released.  It’s been a crazy ride…and I loved every minute (the good, the bad and the ugly!) I already have four releases lined up for 2013 and a couple for 2014…so far.  Busy means blessed and I am forever thankful for book readers because you make my dreams come true each and every time a new book drops. Thank y’all (and of course God) so much.

Best,

N.