Zane (author)
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Kristina Laferne Roberts (born 1966/1967)[1], known by her pen name Zane, is an American author of erotic fiction novels.[2] She is best known for her novel Addicted.[3]
Biography
Kristina Laferne Roberts grew up in Washington, D.C., and Silver Spring, Maryland.[4] Her father, J. Deotis Roberts, was an influential theologian and author, and her mother Elizabeth Caldwell Roberts was an elementary school teacher.[5] Roberts attended Spelman College in Atlanta for one year, then moved Howard University to major in chemical engineering (without graduating).[5]
In 1997, Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed.[6] She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative. The stories developed a following on the Internet and she self-published The Sex Chronicles before landing a deal with Simon & Schuster.[7] Zane is the publisher of Strebor Books (now part of Atria Books at Simon & Schuster), where she publishes 36–60 books a year by other authors.[8]
Her work was the basis for the Cinemax program Zane's Sex Chronicles.[9] A subsequent project, Zane's The Jump Off, premiered March 29, 2013, on Cinemax.[10] The first feature film based on one of her works, Addicted, was released by Lionsgate on October 10, 2014.[11]
In 2014, she was cited by Comptroller of Maryland Peter Franchot as one of Maryland's top tax cheats, owing the state $340,833.58.[1] On June 11, 2014, Zane filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland, claiming total liabilities of more than $3.4 million.[12]
Her work is mentioned in sociologist Shayne Lee's book Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. In it, Lee discusses Zane's work as an example of "urban erotica [that helps] create safe spaces for black female characters to explore lust and embark upon sexual experimentation."[13]
Bibliography
Zane's publications include:[14]
- The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth
- Addicted
- Shame On It All
- Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II
- The Heat Seekers
- Nervous
- The Sisters of APF
- Skyscraper
- Afterburn
- Dear G-Spot: Straight Talk about Sex and Love
- Zane’s Sex Chronicles
- Head Bangers: An APF Sexcapade
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Love Is Never Painless
- Flava Series: Honey Flava, Caramel Flava, Chocolate Flava
- Purple Panties
- Missionary No More
- The Hot Box
- Vengeance
- The Other Side of the Pillow (2018)
References
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- ↑ Lee, Shayne. Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture. Hamilton Books. 2010.
- ↑ "Zane Book List." CHUH Library – Home. Web. September 13, 2010. http://heightslibrary.org
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External links
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- African-American novelists
- American women novelists
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- Writers from Washington, D.C.
- People from Prince George's County, Maryland
- American chick lit writers
- 1960s births
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- 20th-century American novelists
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- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- American erotica writers
- 20th-century American women writers
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- Women erotica writers
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- 20th-century African-American women
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