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 forStreets 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!!!
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