'K. Elliott is the new force to be reckoned with on the urban market.'
'Carl Weber best selling author of Baby Momma Drama.

K. Elliott was raised and attended High School in the Charlotte North Carolina area.  After High School he attended Central Piedmont Community College in the early nineties during this time the drug trade was flourishing.  Broke and homeless he dropped out of school and dabbled in the drug trade before having a run-in with the law and a brief stay in jail.

After seeing several family members let locked away for long periods of time he decided the drug game wasn't the route he wanted to take in life so he re-enrolled in school and maintained a 3.0 GPA. During this time one of the professors took special interest in his writing skills and pulled him aside one day and encouraged him to pursue writing and he did though years later he took creative writing workshops and classes and later landed in a class taught by poet Irene Honeycutt, who introduced the writer to poetry and gave him a understanding of the power of language.  Though initially in opposition to poetry, the writer was very competitive and refused to show up to class without a poem'wanting to outdo the other students his poetry began to take wonderful form and was crafted with precision.

The writer even placed in a competition and later earned a scholarship to the North Carolina Writer's Conference in 2001 the same year in which he began working on his first Novel entitled 'Entangled.'.  Upon completion of the novel he was offered two book deals that specialized in his genre. One from Triple Crown publications based in Ohio and the other was from Kensington Publishing, a major publishing house in New York.  Because he didn't think neither publisher would put the energy that he thought the project deserved the writer decided to take business loans out to pursue his dream of being a published author and publish his first piece of fiction through his company Urban lifestyle Press due out in Mid-August.

Video, K. Elliot, Nikki Turner & Relentless Aaron SIgn with G-Unit Books - 50 Cent's imprint in collaboration with Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster and MTV

 

Christmas in the Hood (Street Chronicles)
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Edited by Nikki Turner, intro by K'wan with stories by K. Elliott, J.M. Benjamin and others

Paperback: 302 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine (October 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345497805
ISBN-13: 978-0345497802
Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches

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The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turner unwraps a talented new collection of writers with raw urban stories to jingle your bells this season.

Christmas in the Hood presents fresh talent alongside shining stars such as K. Elliott and Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti–all writing gritty tales that reveal what the holidays bring for the naughty and the nice who live by the code of the street. In “Secret Santa,” after her children’s Christmas presents are stolen, a woman has to decide what she’s willing to sacrifice to give them the holiday they deserve; in “Me and Grandma,” a senior sleighs more crack than candy canes to bring Christmas cheer to her needy grandkids; and in “Holiday Hell,” Noelle must raise $23,000 to repay a loan shark or her sister will become a ghost of Christmas past. True to the streets and true to the season, these stories will raise the holiday spirit in the heart of even the most ghetto-hardened gangsta.

“The ghetto’s voice without constraint.”
–Upscale, on Tales from da Hood

 

The Ski Mask Way
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by 50 Cent, K. Elliott

ISBN: 1416531017
Pub. Date: January 2007
Format: Paperback, 192pp
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS.

HARD DEALS. HARD TIME.

Back in New York City, Seven was the seventh child. But here in Charlotte he's number one on every ladies' list. Even behind bars, he managed to sex a female corrections officer, who lost her job and found herself pregnant. Now Seven is out of the pen and back on the streets. A small-time dealer with big-time dreams, he's ready to take care of business -- for his baby, his baby's mother, his slammin' girlfriend, and his empty wallet. But first, he's got to play the game with the biggest pushers in town. He'll be a soldier for The Man. Then he'll rob the suckers blind before they figure out what's going down. Sure, it could get him killed. But Seven knows there are things in life worth living for -- and things worth dying for. And sometimes you can't tell the difference.

 

Street Fame Click to order via Amazon ISBN: 0971769729 Pub. Date: January 2006 Format: Paperback, 290pp Publisher: Urban Lifestyle Press There's a lot going on from Charlotte to Miami to San Francisco -- almost none of which is favorable to Tommy 'Fatboy' Dupree. While one man is sleeping around with Tommy's live-in girlfriend, another urges a psychopath to rob him for multiple kilos...

 

Entangled
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ISBN: 0971769702
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: September 2003
Publisher: Urban Lifestyle Press

After five years in prison, drug dealer Jamal Stewart is becoming reacquainted with the perils of the streets. His rehabilitation, if any can only be seen through the eyes of his new love'Dream Nelson, a middle school teacher.

With a criminal record, finding employment becomes a job in itself for Jamal. His best friend Dawg pushes him to contact an old cocaine connection. Dream attempts to keep him from the life of crime that eventually reels her in as well.

Living in a world filled with unprotected sex, violence, payoffs, disloyalty and drug dealing, Jamal becomes the focus of a manhunt. Vowing to never return to prison, he decides he will hold court in the streets. He soon learns how some things can be caught' without a chase.

This multi-plotted suspense novel will bring reality far too close to home.

Contact Information:

Urban Lifestyle Press
P.O. box 12714
Charlotte NC 28220

Phone number 704-523-5874

Related Links:

K. Elliott Homepage
www.k-elliott.com