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Zane
If You Like Zane…
Try These Authors
Zane is an African-American author of erotic fiction, who, after starting in the obscurity of self-publishing, has managed to achieve tremendous success in the field of mainstream erotic romance publishing. Her greatest strengths as a writer are her straight-forward and frank treatments of sex — each and every one of her works features at least one (and often more than one) steamy sex scene. The relationships between her characters can be complicated, and her heroines range in age from their teens to middle-age. The characters are always well-defined, and memorable — usually black, urban professional women, frequently in the Washington D.C. area. They’re not always likeable, but they usually have a character growth arc to experience, in their (often raucous and bawdy) search for love. Zane’s novels deal almost exclusively with the African-American community, and usually have strong subtexts of black culture and history. You will often find social issues addressed in the context of the characters’ lives — abuse, unexpected pregnancy, infidelity, racism. However, Zane isn’t particularly preachy, and most of her novels feature upbeat or happy endings.
Zane’s success in both the self-publishing and maintream publishing fields has caused a literal explosion of African-American themed erotic romances. Mainstream publishers have launched regular series, such as the Arabesque and Kimani “series romance” lines, although these are generally less “steamy” than the average Zane tale. Zane’s success has also contributed to the proliferation of Urban Fiction, characterized by the works of E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey and Omar Tyree — all male authors with the male perspective on the same types of relationships that Zane explores from the female perspective.
Not all of the authors listed here will have the same erotic “steaminess” factor as Zane, however for readers seeking more of Zane’s style of writing, these are all worth trying. The author names (and titles) in the list below are hotlinked to their holdings in our catalog, so that you may check on the availability of their titles in print, audio or downloadable formats.
Home Sweet Home
or other titles by Rochelle Alers
God’s Gift to Women
or other titles by Michael Baisden
Make You Mine
or other titles by Niobia Bryant
Before I Let You Go
or other titles by Angie Daniels
Pleasure
or other titles by Eric Jerome Dickey
Sex, Lies, Murder, Fame
or other titles by Lolita Files
Can’t Get Enough of You
or other titles by Bette Ford
Words of Seduction
or other titles by Dara Girard
Mirror Image
or other titles by Shirley Hailstock
A Love of My Own
or other titles by E. Lynn Harris
Heart’s Reward
or other titles by Donna Hill
Unfinished Business
or other titles by Brenda Jackson
Midnight
or other titles by Beverly Jenkins
Come Fall
or other titles by Marcia King-Gamble
Distant Lover
or other titles by Gloria Mallette
Sweeter Than Honey
or other titles by Mary B. Morrison
Show & Tell
or other titles by George Nelson
Candy Licker: An Urban Erotic Tale
or other titles by Noire
Freefall to Desire
or other titles by Kayla Perrin
Only You
or other titles by Francis Ray
Sin No More
or other titles by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Midnight
or other titles by Sister Souljah
Dirty Red
or other titles by Vickie Stringer
Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction
or other titles edited by Carol Taylor
What They Want
or other titles by Omar Tyree
As Good As the First Time
or other titles by AlTonya Washington
Player Haters
or other titles by Carl Weber
Caramel Flava: The EroticNoir.com Anthology
or other titles edited by Zane
Chocolate Flava: The EroticNoir.com Anthology
or other titles edited by Zane
Purple Panties: An EroticNoir.com Anthology
or other titles edited by Zane
Succulent: Chocolate Flava II: An EroticNoir.com Anthology
or other titles edited by Zane