​AUTHOR OF THE DAY: Yani

Yani is an Amazon Best Selling Author of five 5 star novels hailing from the North Philly and Germantown sections of Philadelphia. She's been in the top 20 of African American Fiction-Urban Life for her A Thug's Redemption series and debuted at number 12 in Romance and Erotica for  ​Obsessive Intimacies. ​

Yani has a unique way of bringing stories to life, giving her readers the feeling that they are watching a movie with every page that is turned. Her characters are real, raw and easy to relate to while her story lines are original, and having the ability to evoke emotions in the readers from start to finish. 

She has been featured in Yo! Raps magazine for A Thug's Redemption and was also a featured author at the 2013 Houston Black Book festival.

Yani first got her start writing for her school paper at University City. Her popular poems granted her an invitation to the Tri-State area's number 1 Hip-Hop and R&B radio station, where she recited one of her most memorable pieces, "Why Tyrone Can't Read." She then moved on to performing at various open mic nights in Philadelphia before landing a publishing deal with Publish America.

With the desire to self-publish and develop her own production company, Yani bought back the rights to A Thug's Redemption and re-released it under her own publishing company "Anitbeet Productions". She then followed up with two sequels and penned her first erotic novel in 2014. She is currently in the process of turning A Thug's Redemption into an independent film and working on her 7th novel which will be released Summer of 2016.

About her book: Obsessive Intimacies

Monogamy was not Markel's strongest suit with the woman he referred to his as his right hand lady. During the first five years of his relationship with Tierra, Markel had an insatiable appetite for a variety of women, having numerous affairs while thinking Tierra was none the wiser. Unbeknownst to him, Tierra was well aware of his adulterous activities and decided to indulge in her own sweetest payback by seeking comfort in the arms of his best friend, giving into the age old ideology that what's good for the goose is good for the gander. 

Though Markel at one point changed his cheating ways, a new temptation crosses his path and he reverts back to his scandalous ways. Not willing to sit idly by while Markel continuously disrespects their marriage, Tierra begins and affair of her own, introducing problems neither one of them anticipated having. From road rage to fist fights, to a racist father of Markel's white mistress, these affairs quickly spiral out of control, as a deadly obsession is formed in the end. A cross between "Jungle Fever" and "Fatal Attraction," and filled with steamy, wild and erotic sex scenes, Obsessive Intimacies is sure to grab onto you from the first page and not let you go until the very last sentence!