Anthony Whyte is an Essence bestselling author and founder of Augustus Publishing and Street Literature Review Magazine: The Voice of Hip Hop Literature. He is a highly respected and renowned author in the Hip Hop fiction genre. His list of published works includes: Ghetto Girls, Ghetto Girls Too, Ghetto Girls 3: Soo Hood, the Streets of New York series and Blackout based on the BET and Paramount Pictures film. Whyte’s titles combined have sold more than 175,000 copies nationwide. Whyte spent over ten years in the US army and was a social worker for the Department of Social Services for New York City’s Child Protective Services. He is a graduate of Lehman College in the Bronx and is currently working on his next novel, Street Chic.

Shannon Holmes was born and raised in New York City’s northern-most borough the Bronx. He first achieved success with his debut novel ‘B-more Careful’, which has sold 500,000 copies to date. His follow-up was the critically acclaimed ‘Bad Girlz’, published by Simon & Schuster, which sold 50,000 copies in its first week. His next novel with S&S, ‘Never Go Home Again’, was hailed as his best work to date. Since then Mr. Holmes has signed a publishing deal with St. Martin’s Press, for two novels ‘Everything Ain’t for Everybody’ and another yet to be named novel, which he is currently working on. Shannon has recently completed a script for his first feature film Hard White, on which this novel is based. The movie is slated for production the second quarter of 2010.