One Lyfe To Live
The author of the urban sexomedy Booty Call has been writing seriously since 1997. His writing style of the streets, comedy, anecdotes, and well thought plots keeps the reader interested with every turn of the page. This entrepreneur is also the owner/founder of Triple G Publishing, and is also partnered with the publishing of SLR (Street Literature Review) a well rounded magazine about urban literature and upcoming authors of a growing genre. Mr. Gray is also making moves in other markets as well one particular market is in independent film, in which he s working on his first script for Streets of New York. Being Born and raised in the south side of Jamaica, Queens, this 34 years young, gifted author has brought himself out on a high note with his first endeavor. His first book, Booty Call was published by Black Print Publishing in 2003, and has sold tens of thousand of copies in the past years, and from there on, he never looked back. He continues bringing you good stories as he shows in his collaboration with Mark Anthony and Anthony Whyte in the Streets of New York series Volume, one, two and three, along with Ghetto Heaven and his most recent smash hit, Love and a Gangsta, and Crave All Lose All, in which he won an award for best urban street lit book of 2007. With his other titles like Nasty Girls, It s Like Candy, Money Power Respect, Flexin & Sexin, Booty Call *69, and the highly anticipating novel soon to be released, America s Soul, One Lyfe to Live and Nasty Girls 2...Mr. Gray shows longevity and ambition among his peers in the urban genre. Mr. Gray also has been involved in numerous anthologies, such as Menace, published by Melodrama, Around the way girls 5, published by Urban books, From the streets to the Sheets, the ground breaking, Heartbreakers anthology with powerhouse Kensington and Flexin and Sexin 2, published by Life Changing Books, with Treasure Blue, Deshawn Taylor and Nichelle Walker. He s been signed to many publishing companies from St. Martin s Press down to Black Print Publishing, and has experienced many aspects of the genre, being to self-publishing Streets of New York with co-authors Mark Anthony and Anthony Whyte, or helping to edit stories with Q-Boro books or other up and coming authors, and he even modeled for one of his own book covers. Mr. Gray comes with seniority and has proven to hold his own in the game among literary giants such as Shannon Holmes, Nikki Turner, and K wan with great story telling and being consistent with great material and other endeavors. Mr. Gray is the epitome of how an author should show consistency throughout the years, by dropping books on a yearly basis, and keeping his name going in the industry. Mr. Gray is definitely on his way to becoming a literary mogul by laying down the foundation with future endeavors and by not letting the world forget his name, because in his own words, he quotes, Creativity burns through my skin and to let you know, I m sentenced to life with a gift. Erick S. Gray is showing that young African-American males don t all fall into the same categories of drug dealer/thief statistic. His future is filled with promises of more intriguing and diverse stories for the masses to digest. Don t ever judge a book by its cover!!!