Book Brahmin: Zane

Zane is the exceedingly successful African-American erotica writer, and her web site, Eroticanoir.com, averages a quarter million hits monthly. She is the author of 10 titles, including Nervous, The Heat Seekers and The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth. She is also an editor or contributor for several other titles such as Best American Erotica 2004, Best Black Women's Erotica and the newly released essay collection, Becoming Myself: Reflections of Growing Up Female edited by Willa Shalit. In addition, Zane is the publisher of Strebor Books International, an imprint of Atria/Simon and Schuster. Her latest books are Head Bangers, published in May by Strebor, and Sensuality: Caramel Flava II, which was published in June by Atria.

On your nightstand now:

Cross by James Patterson.

Favorite book when you were a child:

Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews.

Your top five authors:

D.V. Bernard, Allison Hobbs, William Fredrick Cooper, Dywane Birch and Laurinda Brown. They truly inspire me and push me to become a better writer.
 
Book you've faked reading:

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
 
Book you're an evangelist for:

The Bible.

Book you've bought for the cover:

Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey.

Book that changed your life:

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Favorite line from a book:

"I love you and this is forever. Always has been, always will be."--Zoe Reynard from Addicted by Zane.

Book you most want to read again for the first time:

The Last Dream Before Dawn by D. V. Bernard.

If you could pick an author to review your books, who would it be?

Stephen King.