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 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

References

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

External Links

Cartel Urban Cinema

Official Website

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