Carol Taylor, a former Random House book editor, has been in book publishing for over almost 2 decades [2012] and has worked with many of today's top black writers. Carol has been featured in Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, Honey, BET, Heart and Soul, The Boston Globe, The Daily News, The Chicago Sun-Times and Publisher's Weekly among many other publications. She has also appeared on BET Tonight with Ed Gordon and ABC Eyewitness News.
She is the editor of the bestselling Brown Sugar series. You can find her relationship column, Off the Hook: Advice on Love & Lust at BrownSugarBooks.com. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach her at Carol@BrownSugarBooks.com
Taylor is an editor for AALBC.com's Manuscript Critque Service
The
Ex Chronicles: A Novel
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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Plume; Original edition (February 23, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0452295874
ISBN-13: 978-0452295872
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
The creator of the bestselling Brown Sugar series returns with her first
sexy novel
In a New York City rife with emotional land mines, four friends search for
Mr. Right but too often settle for Mr. Right Now.
Precious, a struggling writer, discovers her fiancé Darius in bed with
another woman, but that doesn't stop her from wanting him. Bella, the
wise-cracking, over-indulged only child of an absent diplomat father and
pill-popping socialite mother, knows her boyfriend Julius is using her, but
before she can give him up she has to give up her first love, alcohol. Half
black, half British Zenobia sacrifices a successful modeling career for
Malcolm, her overly critical boyfriend, but when she strays she fears she's
made a terrible mistake. Bourgie Hope, the creative director of a
high-fashion magazine, is hiding her dementia- ridden mother and her
debilitating depression, while trying to resist a strong attraction to her
new driver Derrick, a single dad from the projects.
Funny and sexy, heartbreaking and inspiring, The Ex-Chronicles is a novel
about faith in one's self, trust in one's friends and the sacrifices we make
in the name of love.
Wanderlust:
Erotic Travel Tales
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Plume (December 27, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0452286271
ISBN-13: 978-0452286276
Carol's her debut novel
From the editor of the award-winning and bestselling anthology
Brown Sugar comes a sultry and sophisticated new collection of erotic
adventures from around the world
More than an erotic travelogue, these edgy, atmospheric and sexually charged
stories explore what new desires and personas are unlocked while one is away
from home, each one more wildly exotic and adventurous than the next.
Contemporary, enlightening, and deeply sensual, these stories take you to
new lovers, trysts, and rendezvous around the globe, from the streets of
Paris, wet with rain, to the sun-kissed beaches of Jamaica, from the hidden
verandas of the Mediterranean to the forbidden banks of the Nile.
Carol is also the editor of the best-selling, Brown Sugar erotic series:
Brown Sugar
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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Plume; Gift Inscription on Fep edition (January 2, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0452282241
ISBN-13: 978-0452282247
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
Silk sheets...jazz playing softly in the background. The many moods of
Eros are explored in this rich and diverse array of black erotica, written
especially for this Plume collection.
Brown Sugar brings together some of the most acclaimed voices in today's
black literary world-Sapphire, Natasha Tarpley, Reginald Harris, and Pamela
Sneed, among them. These titillating stories cover the full spectrum of
black experience and identity as they reveal sexuality and sensuality in all
their varied and exotic forms. From the subtle to the graphic, Brown
Sugar embraces the ardor and passion of black love and lust, and will appeal
to both men and women. Featuring both well-established authors and promising
new writers, this one-of-a-kind collection represents the past, present, and
future of black literature at its pleasurable and outrageous best.
It is a must-have for every lover, as well as every lover of first-rate
fiction.
Brown Sugar
2: Great One Night Stands - A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction, Vol. 2
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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition (December 24, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 074344244X
ISBN-13: 978-0743442442
The first, bestselling Brown Sugar anthology was a literary and commercial success, winning the Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection. Brown Sugar 2 brings you more smart, sexy, and original stories written by bestselling black writers you know and love writing about characters you'll recognize in places you'll know. These stories set the stage for seduction with a distinctly new flavor, and they are as insightful as they are sexy. Here are the real souls of black folk, and each story will take you there in more ways than one. Just be careful — you might get more than your mind blown. Sexy and stimulating, playful and romantic, seductive and inspiring, Brown Sugar 2 is a must-have collection for every lover, as well as every lover of good fiction.
Brown
Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, Vol. 3
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition (December 30, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743466861
ISBN-13: 978-0743466868
Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
An instant attraction, a lingering look, the electric touch of skin on skin, moments of passion that are unforgettable....if the first two Brown Sugar collections left you wanting more, then slip into Brown Sugar 3, as 19 of today's top writers reveal what happens when opposites attract. The first Brown Sugar anthology and its follow-up, Brown Sugar 2, were literary and commercial successes. Brown Sugar won the Gold Pen Award for Best Short Story Collection. Now
Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract brings you more original stories about desire -- be it impulsive, forbidden, or simply unexpected. As insightful as they are sexy, these selections range from subtly romantic to raw and raunchy, from conventional to seriously kinky. You'll satisfy your taste for brown sugar in this deliciously naughty collection.
Brown Sugar
4: Secret Desires, Vol. 4
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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Original edition (February 1, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 074346687X
ISBN-13: 978-0743466875
Continuing in the bestselling Brown Sugar tradition, this fourth installment brings together the finest award-winning and critically celebrated up-and-coming African-American writers contributing sexy, scintillating, never-before-published short stories.
Sacred
Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
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Hardcover: 229 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (February 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471243760
ISBN-13: 978-0471243762
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
The Souls of Black Folk. Things Fall Apart. Their Eyes Were Watching God. The Fire. Next Time. Beloved . . .
Books are a cornerstone of black culture. Charting over 200 years of transition and turmoil, perseverance and triumph, intelligence, horror, and exquisite beauty, black literature rings with a remarkable people's vitality and passion, improvisational spirit and spiritual questing.
Now, capturing the full sweep of writing from the Diaspora—from Africa to the Caribbean to America—Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books celebrates the most influential works in this rich tradition, one of world literature's strongest forces.
QBR: The Black Book Review is the preeminent showcase for the critical review of contemporary African American books and authors. The editors of QBR have tapped a blue-ribbon panel of leading scholars, historians, authors, and booksellers to reach a consensus on works having the most significant impact across the decades —the books that matter most. The resulting list of 100 books is an impressive collection of poetry, short fiction, novels, drama, autobiography, and history.
Divided into six thematic sections —introduced by outstanding young writers like Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Arthur Flowers, and Robert Fleming —the books are excerpted and highlighted with insightful commentary. The first section, "Ancestors, Origins, and Memory," explores books that have shaped our views of slavery, oppression, and the African continent as paradise lost. Included in this section are The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the first independently written slave narrative; Beloved, Toni Morrison's haunting tale of slavery and its aftermath; and Ivan Van Sertima's groundbreaking challenge to European history, They Came Before Columbus.
The section called "Community and Identity" celebrates books that explore individual freedom and the collective power of the alienated and marginalized, featuring the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Chinua Achebe, and Lorraine Hansberry, among others. Their range is matched by their depth. In the sections "Politics, Nationalism, and Revolution" and "Soul and Spirit," one finds Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, Chancellor Williams's The Destruction of Black Civilization, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letters from a Birmingham Jail, and Marian Wright Edelman's Guide My Feet. In "Sisters' Stories," works by Maya Angelou, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, and other outstanding writers capture the varied experiences of black women. "Brothers' Lives" salutes the seminal works on black manhood by writers like Richard Wright, August Wilson, and Ernest Gaines.
Honoring and exploring the greatest achievements in black writing across the centuries, Sacred Fire is soul-shaking, essential reading for all lovers of literature and lively opinion.
"QBR's evolving canon is a splendid way to begin honoring black artists."—Charles Johnson, from the Foreword.
