Toy Styles

Toy Styles (born 31 January 1974), pen names T. Styles, Reign and Mikal Malone, is an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer of urban fiction.

According to Styles her first novels, Black & Ugly and A Hustler's Son, were written in a week.[1] Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list.[2] She owns and operates Cartel Urban Cinema and the popular Urban Fiction publishing house, "The Cartel Publications".[3]

Like many novelists within the urban fiction genre, Styles' experienced trials in the streets as a teenager, even doing a stint in jail before she turned her life around and became a bestselling author/publisher.[4] Styles also refers to the literature she creates as Street Fiction, an alternative to the moniker Urban Fiction.[5]

She was born in Washington, D.C. and resides in Baltimore.[6]

Bibliography

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Tome Rule: Toy Styles can write a novel in a week. But can she dominate the cutthroat world of street lit? - Washington City Paper". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  2. ↑ "May 2009 Bestsellers Books List". Essence.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  3. ↑ "Urban Fiction/Street Lit/Hip Hop Fiction Resources for Librarians - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki". www.libsuccess.org. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Publishers hit the streets". tribunedigital-baltimoresun. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  5. ↑ "New bookstore brings street literature to the masses". www.gazette.net. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  6. ↑ "AALBC".

Tome Rule", Ruth Samuelson, The Washington City Paper, August 29, 2008

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