Today, in honor of Veterans Day, we’re saluting authors of black fiction who have served in the military. One way we can thank them for their service is to purchase one (or a few) or their books. Thanks to my Facebook community for helping me out with compiling the list.
Aliyah Burke
Aliyah Burke is an avid reader and is never far from pen and paper (or the computer). She loves to hear from her readers and can be reached at http://aliyah-burke.com/blog/contact/
She is married to a career military man, they have four Borzoi. Her days are spent sharing her time between work, writing, and dog training/showing.
Check Out: Emerald Myst
Ann Clay
An avid reader and lover of positive, strong men, Award-Winning Author, ANN CLAY began her writing venture in 1999. She has been duly recognized for her warm-hearted stories, bursting with memorable characters, places, and special moments. Venturing into several genres, Ann still prefers her romantic versions of life and living. She resides in Southern Illinois with family, and loves hearing from her readers. Check her out on Twitter @annclaywrites.
Check Out: Tickle My Tummy
Angie Daniels
Angie Daniels is a free spirit who isn’t afraid to say what’s on her mind or even better, write about it. Since strutting onto the literary scene in five-inch heels, she’s been capturing her audience’s attention with her wild imagination and love for alpha men. The RT Reviewer’s Choice Award winner has written over twenty-five novels for imprints such as BET Arabesque, Harlequin/Kimani Romance and Kensington/ Dafina Books. In 2009 she released her first interracial romance in the Big Spankable Asses anthology for Kensington/Aphrodisia imprint, which she later followed up with Tease. For more information about upcoming releases, and to connect with Angie on Facebook, please visit her website at www.angiedaniels.com.
Check Out: Command and Control
Nina Foxx
Nina Foxx is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and novelist. She writes as both Nina Foxx and Cynnamon Foster. Her work has appeared on numerous bestseller lists around the country, and her films have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, and the Rome International Film Festival. Originally from Jamaica, New York, she lives with her family near Seattle, Washington, where she works in Human-Computer interaction for a major software company.
Cynnamon Foster is the alter-ego of author Nina Foxx. She has been begging to be let out for quite awhile. She tied Nina up and put her in a closet and has been writing ever since.
Cynnamon Lives in the Seattle area with her main personality.
Check Out: Catfish
Olivia Gaines
Olivia is a USA Today Best Selling and multiple award-winning author who loves a good laugh coupled with some steam, mixed in with a man and woman finding their way past the words of “I love you.” An author of contemporary romances, she writes heartwarming stories of blossoming relationships about couples not only falling in love but building a life after the sensual love scene.
When Olivia is not writing, she enjoys quilting, playing Scrabble online against other word lovers and spending time with her family. She is an avid world traveler who writes many of the locations into her stories. Most of the time she can be found sitting quietly with pen and paper plotting more adventures in love.
Olivia lives in Hephzibah, Georgia with her husband, son, grandson and snotty evil cat, Katness Evermean.
Learn more about her books, upcoming releases and join her bibliophile nation at www.ogaines.com
Subscribe to her email list at http://eepurl.com/OulYf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olivia.gaines.31
Twitter: https://twitter.com/oliviagaines
Check Out: Moonlight in Vermont
Yvette Hines
USA Today Bestselling Author, but I’m still simply Yvette Hines, some people call me SASSE or SASSE Yvette. I’m an erotica author that loves pleasurable hours between the sheets. Whether it is a blended tale of interracial lovers, the clandestine bite and wicked passion of a paranormal mates or the sting of a commanding whip against tender flesh. Even better, make my day and toss in two gorgeously, decadent men who only want to pleasure their woman. I write Short and Sexy, Sensual Erotica (SASSE). Occasionally, you may get a full length novel from me. However, life is too busy and most of us have more than one job, family and other activities that don’t allow us long hours to read any more.
I’ve been penning erotic tales since 2006, on the hedonistic side of the romance genre. However, I’ve been writing romance under a different pen for a while. I’m eclectic by nature.
I’m a member of Chesapeake Romance Writers, RWA and a proud RomVet. You can find out more about me at: http://yvettehines.com
Facebook: Yvette Hines (or Author Yvette Hines)
Twitter: @sasseYvetteH
Blog: http://sassesheets.blogspot.com/
Check Out: Bear’s Snow
Travis Hunter
Travis Hunter is a songwriter, a screenwriter, and the bestselling author of The Hearts of Men, Trouble Man, A One Woman Man, Something to Die For, and Family Man. Hunter was named Author of the Year in 2003 by readers of the Atlanta Daily World. He lives in Atlanta.
Check Out: Trouble Man
Rhonda M. Lawson
Rhonda M. Lawson is an Army journalist, garnering various journalism awards,
Check Out: Trust
Siera London
Siera London is the USA Today Bestselling & Award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and crime fiction. She crafts stories of diverse characters navigating the challenges and triumphs to find lasting love. Intelligence, wit, emotion, drama, and romance are between the covers of every Siera London novel. Siera lives in Virginia with her husband, and a color patch tabby named Frie. She can be found online at www.sieralondonauthor.com
Check Out: Lunchtime Chronicles: Red Velvet
Reana Malori
Reana is a USA Today Bestselling Author books featuring sassy, beautiful black women, and the Alpha males who love them. Her stories focus on Interracial romance, with lots of steam to keep things interesting. A firm believer that LOVE in all its forms should be celebrated, her goal is to weave a story that brings the reader into her world, even if only for a short time. On any given day, you can find her reading a book from one of her favorite authors, or bent over her laptop working to bring you more goodness.
She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and has two very handsome sons. You can find her on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram, or you can send her an email at [email protected].
Website: www.reanamalori.com
Check Out: Secret Devotion
Capri Montgomery
Capri Montgomery is passionate about memorable stories, strong characters and spicy females who can play the modern-day damsel in distress and the kick butt to save a life amateur female sleuth. She loves spending the day writing after a workout and time in the kitchen making a delicious meal to step away from it all for a short break while she plots another scene for her current story in progress, which as she points out might just be the story after the one currently in progress.
Check Out: The Proof Is in the Pudding
Tracy Price-Thompson
Tracy Price-Thompson is the national bestselling author of the novels, Black Coffee, Chocolate Sangria, A Woman’s Worth, Knockin’ Boots, Gather Together in My Name, and 1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E. Tracy is a highly decorated Desert Storm veteran who graduated from the Army’s Infantry Officer Candidate School after more than ten years as an enlisted soldier. A Brooklyn, New York, native who has traveled extensively and lived in amazing places around the world, Tracy is a retired Army Engineer officer and Ralph Bunche graduate Fellow who holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a master’s degree in Social Work. Tracy lives in Hawaii with her wonderfully supportive husband and several of their six bright, beautiful, incredible children.
Check Out: Black Coffee
Bridgett Renay
The only thing Bridgett Renay loves doing more than serving her fellow Veterans is writing. If you let her tell it, the first spoken words from the quiet but observant multiple-time bestselling author were, “I should really write this down.”
But before pursuing her dream of becoming an acclaimed writer and business owner, the pragmatic Bridgett Renay believed she had to first make good on a promise she made to God. That promise revolved around the pursuit of higher learning and community service and was made after He removed her from a traumatic childhood incident. Little did she know those two entities would be the guiding forces behind her life experiences.
The years of personal triumphs earning a Bachelor of Science in Technical Communication and a Master of Business Administration, as well as professional growth as a corporate operative and Retired Navy Reservist, tells the story of a journey that took her to faraway places, introduced her to intoxicating people, and shaped the way she viewed the world and her place in it.
As the result, she began to focus her writing on no longer entertaining, but empowering those who deserve it the most. And now, after surviving a tour as a Military Patrolman in the Middle East Post 9/11, Bridgett Renay has rededicated herself to serving those who unselfishly served by her side while never forgetting her unit’s motto, “We start together, we finish together.”
Check Out: LLP—Lust, Lies and Propositions
Toni Shiloh
Toni Shiloh is a wife, mom, and multi-published Christian contemporary romance author. She writes to bring Him glory and to learn more about His goodness. Her novel, Grace Restored, was a 2019 Holt Medallion finalist and Risking Love is a 2020 Selah Award finalist.
A member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and of the Virginia Chapter, Toni seeks to help readers find authors. She loves connecting with readers and authors alike via social media. You can learn more about her writing at http://tonishiloh.com.
Check Out: The Price of Dreams: Faith & Fortune 3
Michelle Sims
Michele Sims is the “author-ego” of Deanna McNeil and creator of the Moore Family Saga and the Fire God Series. She loves writing hot love stories and women’s fiction with multidimensional characters in multi-generational families.
She is the recipient of the 2018 RSJ Aspiring Author Award and first runner up in the Introvert Press Poetry Contest for February 2018. She is a member of the LRWA, in Charleston, SC, the Black Romance Authors Network, and the From The Heart Romance Writers’ online group.
She lives in South Carolina with her husband who has been her soulmate and greatest cheerleader. She is the proud mother of two adult sons and the auntie to many loved ones. When she’s not writing, she’s trying to remember the importance of exercise, travelling, listening to different genres of music, and observing the wonders of life on this marvelous planet.
Check Out: Seed on Fire
Brian W. Smith
Brian W. Smith is the award winning / best selling author of more than thirty novels and short stories. Several of his novels have been Amazon Best sellers. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at colleges in the Dallas, Texas area. He is a native of New Orleans, La., but resides in Dallas, Texas.
Check Out: Paper Bag
If you are an author of Black fiction, and you would like to be included in this roundup, please email [email protected].
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