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

• "Rainbow Heart", iUniverse, 2005
• "Black & Ugly", Triple Crown Publications, 2007
• "A Hustlers Son", Triple Crown Publications, 2006
• "Cold As Ice" (anthology), Triple Crown Publications, 2007
• "The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets", The Cartel Publications, 2009
• "Diamond Playgirls" (anthology), Kensington Books, 2010
• "Shyt List", The Cartel Publications, 2007
• "Shyt List 2", The Cartel Publications, 2009
• "Shyt List 3", The Cartel Publications, 2009
• "Shyt List 4", The Cartel Publications, 2010
• "Shyt List 5", The Cartel Publications, 2012
• "Pitbulls In A Skirt", The Cartel Publications, 2008
• "Pitbulls In A Skirt 2", The Cartel Publications, 2009
• "Pitbulls In A Skirt 3", The Cartel Publications, 2010
• "Pitbulls In A Skirt 4", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Black And ugly As Ever", The Cartel Publications, 2008
• "Redbone", Kensington Books, 2011
• "Redbone 2", Kensington Books, 2013
• "Raunchy", The Cartel Publications, 2010
• "Raunchy 2", The Cartel Publications, 2011
• "Raunchy 3", The Cartel Publications, 2012
• "Mad MAXXX: Children Of The Catacombs", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Luxury Tax", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Pretty Kings", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Pretty Kings 2", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Pretty Kings 3", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "The End: How To Write A Book In 30 Days", The Cartel Publications, 2012
• "First Comes Love. Then Comes Murder", The Cartel Publications, 2013
• "Miss Wayne & The Queens Of D.C.", The Cartel Publications, 2010
• "Silence Of The Nine", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "Silence Of The Nine 2", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "Prison Throne", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "Goon", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "And They Call Me God", The Cartel Publications, 2015
• "The Ungrateful Bastards", The Cartel Publications, 2015
• "Lipstick Dom", The Cartel Publications, 2014
• "Kali: Raunchy Relived", The Cartel Publications, 2015
• "Nefarious", The Cartel Publications, 2016

References

1. "Tome Rule: Toy Styles can write a novel in a week. But can she dominate the cutthroat world of street lit? - Washington City Paper". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
2. "May 2009 Bestsellers Books List". Essence.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
3. "Urban Fiction/Street Lit/Hip Hop Fiction Resources for Librarians - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki". www.libsuccess.org. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
4. "Publishers hit the streets". tribunedigital-baltimoresun. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
5. "New bookstore brings street literature to the masses". www.gazette.net. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
6. "AALBC".

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

• "AALBC"to the Wizard and continue from there.

External Links

Cartel Urban Cinema

Official Website