James’s 50 Shades of Grey, there was Zane’s Addicted. ^ 'Zane Book List.' CHUH Library – Home.Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture. 'Author Zane filed for bankruptcy as her new movie, 'Addicted,' was in production'. ^ 'Black Authors Celebrated At Anguilla's 4th Annual Literary Festival'.'Soft-core porn still hot stuff on cable TV'. Archived June 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ^ 'Erotic author Zane is famous but anonymous'.

^ Zane, the Queen of Erotica, Has a Secret.' 'Addicted' movie review: Zane's bestselling book bares all on the big screen'. ' 'Queen of Erotica' Zane On How Fifty Shades Affects the Sexy-Book Scene'. 'Prince George's author of steamy fiction tops list of Maryland's tax cheats, comptroller says'. ^ a b Kunkle, Fredrick (January 27, 2014).Flava Series: Honey Flava, Caramel Flava, Chocolate Flava.Dear G-Spot: Straight Talk about Sex and Love.The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth.In it, Lee discusses Zane's work as an example of 'urban erotica create safe spaces for black female characters to explore lust and embark upon sexual experimentation.' Bibliography Her work is mentioned in sociologist Shayne Lee's book Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture. Bankruptcy Court in Maryland, claiming total liabilities of more than $3.4 million. On June 11, 2014, Zane filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in U.S. In 2014, she was cited by Comptroller of Maryland Peter Franchot as one of Maryland's top tax cheats, owing the state $340,833.58. The first feature film based on one of her works, Addicted, was released by Lionsgate on October 10, 2014. Zane is the publisher of Strebor Books/ Atria Books/Simon and Schuster where she publishes 36–60 books a year by other authors. A subsequent project, Zane's The Jump Off, premiered March 29, 2013, on Cinemax.

Her work was the basis for the Cinemax program Zane's Sex Chronicles. The stories developed a following on the Internet and she self-published The Sex Chronicles before landing a deal with Simon & Schuster. She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative. In 1997, Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed. Roberts attended Spelman College in Atlanta for one year, then moved Howard University to major in chemical engineering. Deotis Roberts, was an influential theologian and author, and her mother Elizabeth Caldwell Roberts was an elementary school teacher. Kristina Laferne Roberts grew up in Washington DC and Silver Spring Maryland with her brother Deotis, and her two sisters Charmaine Roberts and Carlita Roberts. She is best known for her novel Addicted. Zane (born 1966/1967) is the pseudonym of Kristina Laferne Roberts, author of erotic fiction novels.

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