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| The author of the urban sexomedy Booty Call has been writing seriously since 1997. His writing style of the streets, comedy, anecdotes, and well thought plots keeps the reader interested with every turn of the page. This entrepreneur is also the owner/founder of 3G Publishing, and is also partnered with the publishing of SLR (Street Literature Review) a well rounded magazine about urban literature and upcoming authors of a growing genre. Mr. Gray is also making moves in other markets as well—one particular market is in independent film, in which he’s working on his first script for Streets of New York. Being Born and raised in the south side of Jamaica, Queens, this 35 years young, gifted author has brought himself out on a high note with his first endeavor. His first book, Booty Call was published by Black Print Publishing in 2003, and has sold tens of thousand of copies in the past years, and from there on, he never looked back. He continues bringing you good stories as he shows in his collaboration with Mark Anthony and Anthony Whyte in the Streets of New York series Volume, one, two and three, along with Ghetto Heaven and his most recent smash hit, Love and a Gangsta, and Crave All Lose All, in which he won an award for best urban street lit book of 2007. With his other titles like Nasty Girls, It’s Like Candy, Money Power Respect, Flexin & Sexin, Booty Call *69, One Lyfe to Live and the highly anticipating novel soon to be released, America’s Soul, and Nasty Girls 2…Mr. Gray shows longevity and ambition among his peers in the urban genre. Mr. Gray also has been involved in numerous anthologies, such as Menace, published by Melodrama, Around the way girls 5, published by Urban books, From the streets to the Sheets, Guns and Roses, the ground breaking, Heartbreakers anthology with powerhouse Kensington and Flexin’ and Sexin 2, published by Life Changing Books, with Treasure Blue, Deshawn Taylor and Nichelle Walker. He’s been signed to many publishing companies from St. Martin’ s Press down to Black Print Publishing, and has experienced many aspects of the genre, being to self-publishing Streets of New York with co-authors Mark Anthony and Anthony Whyte, or helping to edit stories with Q-Boro books or other up and coming authors, and he even modeled for one of his own book covers. Mr. Gray comes with seniority and has proven to hold his own in the game among literary giants such as Shannon Holmes, Nikki Turner, and K’wan with great story telling and being consistent with great material and other endeavors. Mr. Gray is the epitome of how an author should show consistency throughout the years, by dropping books on a yearly basis, and keeping his name going in the industry. Mr. Gray is definitely on his way to becoming a literary mogul by laying down the foundation with future endeavors and by not letting the world forget his name, because in his own words, he quotes, “Creativity burns through my skin and to let you know, I’m sentenced to life with a gift.” Erick S. Gray is showing that young African-American males don’t all fall into the same categories of drug dealer/thief statistic. His future is filled with promises of more intriguing and diverse stories for the masses to digest. Don’t ever judge a book by its cover!!! |
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| A story about Lyfe like no other Lyfe Benjamin fits the statistics that a good number of black men fall under in this country today; he s young, uneducated black and lives a reckless life. Statistics say he will be incarcerated or dead by the age of twenty-five. Lyfe runs around with a young crew that he considers family. He is the typical thug from the projects with an absent father, A Christian mother who prayers sometimes go unanswered. He has a child on the way from a woman he cares nothing about and at this point, his life is limited. But most of all violent due to the choices he has made, until he meets Ayana, a college student who speaks two languages and has a totally different drive for life. Opposites attract, Ayana pulls Lyfe into her world, showing him diversity, culture and a meaningful way to live. But will Lyfe take advantage of the opportunity that is being offered to him from the woman he does love or will he continue to be a thug traveling down hill. Turmoil and death follows him throughout his life while he holds dark secrets within his soul. In his world, friends become bitter enemies, betrayal is costly, secrets revealed and in the end, he will truly see who his true friends are and what family really should be. With a harsh reminder of where he needs to be this young man will share with you the true meaning of the words. You only have one Lyfe to live. |
| ERICK S. GRAY |
| BIO |
| Growing up, I was very into comic books and always wanted to be a superhero |
| I love to read, a few of my favorite books is Monster Kody, Dark, by Kenji Jasper, The Ville, Dopefiend, Paper chasers, Coldest Winter Ever, Dime Piece, The Maintenance Man and Men Cry in the Dark...and so on. |
| My first book that was published in 2003, I wrote when I was high and horny. Booty Call |
| I like romantic comedies and sometimes romance and drama movies. But I'm a movie fanatic, and frequently go to the movies by myself when I get the chance. |
| I love to travel, love the open road, and the places I'm so dying to see, is L.A Miami, Japan, London, Africa and Las Vegas. |
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