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Books Raunchy 3: Jayden's Passion (t, Raunchy (The Cartel Publicatio, Pretty Kings, Silence of the Nine II: Let There, The Ungrateful Bastards Similar Keisha Ervin, Danielle Santiago, Caroline McGill, J M Benjamin | ||
Toy Styles (born 31 January 1974), pen names T. Styles, Reign and Mikal Malone, is an American author, 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. Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. She owns and operates Cartel Urban Cinema and the popular Urban Fiction publishing house, "The Cartel Publications".
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. Styles also refers to the literature she creates as Street Fiction, an alternative to the moniker Urban Fiction.
She was born in Washington, D.C. and resides in Baltimore.