niobia bryant, author

PUBLICITY

For all media inquiries for Niobia Bryant, please email:  

• publicity@kensingtonbooks.com 
• Dawn Michelle, Publicist, Dream Relations, PR & Literary Consulting Agency : dreamrelations@gmail.com

 For all media inquiries for Meesha Mink, please email:

• shida.carr@simonandschuster.com

REVIEWS

Over the years since I was first published I’ve been one of the lucky ones to fair very well in having my work reviewed.  Trust me, I thank my heavenly stars plenty because reviews can get mad wicked–and helpful.  Here is just a selection of my reviews since 2000.  My online press kit will be loaded very soon…

• ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE  :“Great characters and a warm, small town setting makes this a delightful read.” (4 STARS- EXCELLENT) –Admissions of Love
• ROMANCE READER (3 out of 4 hearts) : “Niobia Bryant is off to a good start … a very strong three heart read… added to my Emerging Author list.” –Admissions of Love
• AFFAIRE DE COEUR Magazine : “A well crafted story with engaging secondary characters.” (4 1/2 STARS) –Admissions of Love
• DOUBLEDAY/BLACK EXPRESSIONS : “…this sneaky little romance heats up gradually, then sizzles until done…” –Three Times a Lady
• ROMANCE READER (4 out of 4 hearts) : “…worth the wait. Niobia Bryant is a good storyteller who combines wit and humor.” –Three Times a Lady
• ROMANTIC TIMES MAGAZINE (4 1/2 stars – EXCEPTIONAL) : “…a refreshing read with wonderful characters and a “true family”. A wonderful TOP PICK for the month of June!” –Three Times a Lady
• Romantic Times Magazine (4 1/2 Star Review; a TOP PICK for August) : “Sexy as sin” describes this provocative novel to a T. The pacing is smooth and the chemistry explosive. -Heavenly Match
• The RAWSistaz Reviewers : 4 Stars – …a wonderfully romantic story with an air of mystery and suspense that draws the reader in.  –Heavenly Match
• Romantic Times Magazine  : *Top Pick* 4 1/2 stars- Unbelievably sexy, Can’t Get Next to You is a definite winner.
• Romantic Times Magazine :  “Comical and sexy best describe Bryant’s latest endeavor…” Could it Be?/YOU NEVER KNOW
• Romantic Times Magazine : “Run to the bookstore and pick up this delightful read.” (4½ STARS, TOP PICK) –Let’s Do it Again
• Imani Book Club  : “There is humor, sensuality, and just great chemistry between the two main characters.” (4 STARS)–Can’t Get Next to You
•  Romantic Times Magazine : “Sexy as sin describes this provocative novel to a T…” (4½ STARS, TOP PICK) –Can’t Get Next to You
•  Romantic Times Magazine  : “Explosive chemistry between the two makes for steamy reading that will be difficult to put down.” (4 STARS) –Heated 
• RAWSistaz: “Live and Learn by Niobia Bryant is a wonderful story about the bonds of friendship. Full of drama, betrayal, unforgettable characters and sizzling sex scenes, it is sure to keep the reader’s attention from beginning to end.”–Live and Learn
• Books2Mention.com : “Live And Learn provides an escape into another world filled with drama that will have your head spinning.” –Live and Learn
• Urban Reviews: “Niobia Bryant has yet again penned another best seller …” –Hot Like Fire
• Joyfully Reviewed: “Niobia Bryant created a beautiful story that was sensual but still sweet. “–Hot Like Fire
• Romantic Times Magazine: “Live and Learn is a pleasurable reading experience.” –Live and Learn
• Romantic Times Magazine: “{This} has all of her trademarks: hot men, spicy women and a sexually captivating story. “–Hot Like Fire
• Romance in Color: “The plot is so wonderfully cultivated it flows off the page and into the minds eye like a movie. The pacing keeps you panting and I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”–Hot Like Fire
•  Urban Reviews: “The dialogue is credible, the struggles are emotional and empowering, and the storyline is memorable and entertaining. Niobia Bryant has enthralled her readers with another fast paced poignant tale…”–Show and Tell
• Romance in Color: “Niobia Bryant does a great job weaving four strong characters and their trials into one enjoyable story. “–Show and Tell

Reviews for Niobia’s work as Meesha Mink (co-author of the blazing bestselling Hoodwives series):

June 2008 issue

Shameless Hoodwives by Meesha Mink & De’Nesha Diamond (aka Niobia Bryant and Adrianne Byrd) is listed  as one of the magazine’s TOP 10 Summer Sizzlers!!!  It’s recommended as one of the “new thrillers and love stories to toss into your beach bag”–the Hoodwives falls under the “thriller” category .   

 

 February 2008 issue

“Osceola Washington and Cleo Thomas, fictional snoop sisters who anchor a stoop in Hotlanta’s Bentley Manor project, tell all of their neighbours business in Desperate Hoodwives (Touchstone, $14), a can’t miss new series by Meesha Mink and De’Nesha Diamond, known to many readers as romance writers Niobia Bryant and Adrianne Byrd. If you’re hooked from the first page, stay tuned for Shameless Hoodwives, coming late this summer…”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Desperate Hoodwives  by Meesha Mink and De’nesha Diamond (Touchstone)

If nothing else, we like this one for the title. It’s the first book in a new series on the women of Bentley Manor. Aisha, Devani, Molly and Lexi are each desperate to get out of their Atlanta project and into a better place. Let’s just say this sassy, sexy streetwise story could kick some butt over on Wisteria Lane. (Listed as REQUIRED READING) –New York Post

 

The title only hints at the freaky-deaky content in the first installment of a street lit series that could also qualify as urban erotic horror. In Atlanta, Bentley Manor is a cage for four young women. Aisha, whose pampered lifestyle takes a big hit after her dealer husband gets locked up, goes to dangerous lengths to keep up her ghetto fab image. Devani is single and, at her mother’s direction, plans on tricking NFL star Tyrik Jefferson into marrying her by getting pregnant. Lexi has five kids by four men and hopes Luther, the man who finally married her, will buy them a house, but will his sub-par sack performance tank her dreams? Molly is the white trash wife of oversexed, abusive and often absentee Junior; she, like the other women, dreams of getting up out Bentley Manor. The authors, who also publish under Niobia Bryant and Adrianne Byrd, hold back little in this cautionary tale dripping with sex, vice and yearning. (Feb.)–Publisher’s Weekly

 

 

 

 

Mink (Hot Like Fire) and Diamond (Feel the Fire) portray four young women trying their best to escape the hood in this first in a series of street lit novels set in the Atlanta housing projects. Named Bentley Manor, this development is also home to two longtime residents who know how difficult it is to leave the ghetto.–Library Journal

 

 

 DESPERATE HOODWIVES is the first in the Hoodwives series. Meesha Mink and De’Nesha Diamond have written a drama-entrenched novel that leaves no stone unturned. Erotic and explosive, DESPERATE HOODWIVES is a well-written and I could not put down. I am anxiously awaiting the sequel, Shameless Hoodwives because DESPERATE HOODWIVES is a classic. Part erotica, part urban fiction, part horror, DESPERATE HOODWIVES has a little something for every reader.–RAW Sistaz

“Desperate Hoodwives has quickly become one of the best books I’ve read this year. The plot and characters had me hooked from the beginning until well past the end of the book. This book is filled with it all. Romance, drama, suspense. Definitely a must have! I look forward to reading more from Meesha Mink and De’nesha Diamond.”  –Mahogany Book Club

 ”I was totally absorbed from the first page and I was reading so fast that I had to go back and read it again just to be sure I didn’t miss anything. A terrific read and the ending will leave you begging for the sequel.”–Romance in Color (Desperate Hoodwives)

“Diamond and Mink deliver a compelling hood tale that is a true page-turner. ” –RAWSistaz (Shameless Hoodwives)

 ”This is the ghetto Wisteria Lane, called Bentley Manor and anything can and will happen here.–Coast2coast Readers (Shameless Hoodwives)

“Invigorating plots magnify the intensity of each scene that creates a breathless anticipation as you delve further and further into the sordid lives of the people that occupy this notorious neighborhood. –UrbanReviews: (Shameless Hoodwives)

 

 

Praise for Hoodwives from Other Blazing Hot Authors:

 “A wonderfully written story with colorful characters that will keep you flipping the pages—I loved it.”
–K’wan, Essence bestselling author of Hood Rat, Gangsta, and Street Dreams

“Move over Wisteria Lane. Drama and Scandal has permanently moved to Bentley Manor. Desperate Hoodwives is a wonderfully written novel that is sassy, smart, and unadulterated!”
–Danielle Santiago, Essence bestselling author

“A sexy tale that will keep you gasping as you turn the pages…”
—Miasha, author of Diary of a Mistress and Secret Society