J. D. Mason is the national bestselling and award-winning author whose many novels include Drop Dead, Gorgeous; That Devilโs No Friend of Mine; You Gotta Sin to Get Saved; This Fire Down in My Soul; Donโt Want No Sugar; And On the Eighth Day She Rested, and One Day I Saw a Black King. Her short fiction appears in anthologies including Zaneโs Blackgentlemen.com and the story collection Have a Little Faith. She lives in Denver with her children.
ReShonda Tate Billingsleyโs #1 nationally bestselling novels include Let the Church Say Amen, I Know Iโve Been Changed, and Say Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her collaboration with Victoria Christopher Murray has produced four hit novels, Sinners & Saints, Friends & Foes, A Blessing & a Curse, and Fortune & Fame. BET released a movie in 2013 based on ReShondaโs book Let the Church Say Amen in which she had a minor role. She also had a role in the made-for-TV movie The Secret She Kept based on her book of the same title. Visit ReShondaTateBillingsley.com, meet the author on Facebook at ReShondaTateBillingsley, or follow her on Twitter @ReShondaT.
Bernice L. McFaddenโs national bestselling debut novel, Sugar, won the 2010 Honor Award in Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her many novels that followed include Nowhere is a Place, The Warmest December, and Gathering of Waters, chosen as one of the Best Books of 2012 by The New York Times and The Washington Post. She lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. Visit BerniceMcFadden.com.