Contemporary Romance
CK Brown is a romance author who deliberately pens stories about Black love. In addition to being a writer, she’s an avid reader who enjoys curling up with a good book and a glass of vino while burning one of her fifty ‘leven candles.
Cheryl Barton lives in Maryland and in her spare time she loves to read espionage, crime, and romance novels, cook, watch Sci-fi movies, spend time with family and friends and enjoy Maryland steamed crabs. Cheryl is celebrating over 30 years as a government employee and loves writing romance novels when she’s not working.
Cheryl is the author of over thirty-one romance novels, four inspirational novels and is proud of six book compilation projects with several other incredible women.
Cheryl was a 2019 Finalist for the Emma Award given by Romance Slam Jam and a 2018 Finalist for the Literary Trailblazer of the Year award by the Indie Author Legacy Award. Cheryl is a member of the Contemporary Romance Writers where she currently serves on the board as the secretary.
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Born and raised in North Philadelphia, Mya K. Douglas, professionally known as Mya Kay, is an Amazon bestselling author, speaker and literary consultant. She has written and co-written several contemporary romance novels, including, Love to the B Power, Love to the Baby Power, Fumbled Your Heart and A Star-Studded Love. With a passion to help women and teen girls heal from their trauma, she launched Girls Anthem in the fall of 2019 with one goal – to make God proud. Today, Girls Anthem is a full-service literary consulting firm that equips women with the tools they need to write their stories and build successful writing careers. Mya is also the creator and host of “The Mya Kay Show”, a literary podcast that features writing tips, exclusive interviews and publishing success stories. You can learn more about her at www.writermya.com and www.girlsanthem.biz.
Hi! My name is Cachline Etienne and I am an young adult and romance fiction author an poet. My young adult books focus on black girls’ experience and my romance books focus on black love. The romance books I write promote non- toxic black love and are usually novellas. Black love is beautiful and with each book i hope to properly represent the same.
Joi Jackson currently lives in Atlanta, GA and has loved romance novels since the Sweet Valley High days. She writes diverse swoony romances with strong heroines that love technology. Creating love stories that make readers laugh, fall in love with the characters and maybe even learn something is her goal.
Naomi Rivers is a wife writing team and retired U.S. veterans who craft heartfelt lesbian romance and women’s fiction filled with love, connection, and happily ever afters. Their debut novel, THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story, was twenty years in the making, written to stay connected during multiple military deployments. They now live on the East Coast with their two rescue dogs.
I write stories that make me feel good. Stories that speak to that little girl from the Westside of Detroit and tell her that her imagination will take her far if she just lets it.
The stories I write are for the girls that want to just live in their sexuality and to be free in who they are naturally. It took me a long time to love who I am the way God made me. Who am I to not encourage others to do the same?
While I’m new to the scene, I’m here to write the stories of my own heart, my own fantasies, and to bring a few folks along for the ride.
I am a homebody from Douglasville, GA who loves reading, playing Sims, watching sports (mostly basketball), working out (‘loves’ might be a little strong on this one but I do it anyway), and hanging out with my son. I’m also admittedly greedy and can oftentimes be too easily bribed with deliciousness.
Writing is absolutely my first love but I’m also a massage therapist, a freelance copywriter, a ghostwriter, and am currently working towards my degree is Communications. When I’m not writing my contemporary sexy funny messy Black novels, I love watching old sitcoms and movies and listening to 90s R&B, or some comedy special (I love to laugh). Or just chilling in the corner of my couch in my hooded blanket playing Bejeweled. I’m fun. 🤭
Chyna T has been a hybrid published and self published author since 2015. Her first series, Every D-boy’s Dream, made her an Amazon bestselling author. She became a publisher in 2016 with Cokane Publications. She also opened an independent author ONLY bookstore in Tallahassee, Fl called Book Teas in 2016. In 2017, Erica took a hiatus from fiction writing to become a certified life coach, which she achieved in 2019. She created her platform, Healing and Building, based on situations and people she survived while growing into the well-rounded coach and author that she is. During that time, she wrote 4 self-help books. In 2023, she signed a new hybrid publishing deal with national bestselling author, Racquel Williams Presents. Her first new fiction series and release is Her Man, My Sneaky Link, which is book 1 releases June 20! Erica always possessed a passion to help independent and self published authors get their physical books into more homes and build their readership so all readers know they produce awesome stories. Since the idea of Indie Book Fair was to create a space for authors to be known and loved, she also scheduled a whole literary appreciation weekend to honor not just authors but other independent publishers, alpha and beta readers, audiobook narrators, cover art and book illustrators, promotion and marketing companies, and more.
Nikki Davenport has been crafting stories about falling in love for as long as she can remember. She is passionate about showcasing Black love positively–in all its beautiful, messy, life-changing glory. She writes steamy Black-on-Black contemporary romance, where friendships are strong, damsels save themselves, and swoon-worthy heroes go all out for their women. Nikki’s flagship Destination: Lytua series centers on the lives and loves of a small island nation in the Caribbean. Imagine a matrilineal society of well-educated, progressive Black folks that was never colonized. This fictitious place is a mashup of Bridgerton and Wakanda. Lytua has an elected Queen with a cadre of special forces protectors, called the Elite Guard.
Nikki holds a BA in History and a Master’s in Social Work. Paddling with a dragon boat racing team of fellow breast cancer survivors and working in the education field keep Nikki busy.
She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, two snarky teens, and a pair of spoiled feline overlords. She belongs to a fabulous book club and is almost always listening to an audiobook or podcast.