ZANE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR NEW BOOK "HOT BOX".

Global Management Consultants Inc.,MahoganyJones Entertainment Group LLC,Strebor BooksandTabaq BistroPresentsA Celebrity Evening With ZANE:"The HOT BOX" Launch Party

Come celebrate another ZANE masterpeice. Be the first to experience THE HOT BOX featuring one of the hottest DJ's in the DMV and live entrertainment

Saturday, August 7th

10pm-3am

Tabaq Bistro

1336 U Street NW | Washington, DC

This is an exclusive event that you don't want to miss. The HOT BOX book launch and party!!!

Book Release Launch Party for New York Times Bestselling author

Zane

Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 10:00pm -3am


"Hot Box"

TABAQ BISTRO
1336 U Street, N.W
Washington, DC



A Conversation with ...Zane.

&

Booksigning

followed by

Dancing, Hot Salsa, Tango, Steppin and more...
Dancing with the DMV Stars!

Celebrity DJ and Live Entertainment


For the Grown and Sexy!

Host: ZANE

Cost: $40.00 in advance includes autograph copy of her new book,
"Hot Box"






Launch Parties in the following cities:

New Orleans- Essence Festival-July 3, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia-July 31, 2010
Charlotte, North Carolina -August 14, 2010
Chicago, Illinois- August 19th
Philadelphia,PA
Newark, New Jersey
New York, New York

Contact Judith Thomas at 301-256-4801 or Mahogany Jones at 202-621-9819
Corporate and Media Sponsorship available

ZaneBiography2010

Zane is the New York Times Bestselling Author of eleven titles: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Dear G Spot: Straight Talk About Sex and Love, Afterburn, Skyscraper, Nervous, The Sisters of APF, Gettin Buck Wild: The Sex Chronicles 2, The Heat Seekers, Shame on it All, Addicted and The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth. She is also an editor or a contributor to several other titles including: Love is Never Painless, Caramel Flava, Chocolate Flava, Another Time, Another Place, Sensuality: Caramel Flava 2, Succulent: Chocolate Flava 2, Purple Panties, Missionary No More: Purple Panties 2, Breaking the Cycle, Blackgentlemen.com, Best American Erotica 2004, Best Black Womens Erotica, Brown Sugar 2, Twilight Moods, Dark Dreams, and the essay collection Becoming Myself: Reflections of Growing Up Female edited by Willa Shalit, the producer of the famous Vagina Monologues.

Becoming Myself features a distinguished roster of celebrity females including Maya Angelou, Patti LaBelle, Vanessa Williams, Glenn Close, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, and Harry Potters J.K. Rowling. Zane feels blessed to be included in such an illustrious lineup of accomplished females. Speaking of lineups, Zane is one of the subjects in The Black Lista documentary that premiered on HBO in August 2008. Journalist Elvis Mitchell interviews twenty African American leaders, ranging from athletes and academics to politicians including: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sean P Diddy Combs, Lou Gossett, Jr., Vernon Jordan, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, and Keenan Ivory Wayans. She is also the subject of a documentary being developed for Swiss Public Television.

In addition to writing, Zane is the Publisher of Strebor Books International, an imprint of ATRIA/Simon and Schuster. Under Strebor, Zane is responsible for acquiring dozens of titles per year and currently has nearly fifty authors under her imprint. In December 2005, Strebor Books became the first major publishing house to implement an independent sales representative program. Zane intends to have at least 10,000 independent sales reps by the fall of 2009. In 2007, Zane launched two new lines of books and published a record 60 titles. In 2009, she launched another line of books called Strebor Quickiez.

Zane has set her ambitions on film-making and plans to write and produce at least two film projects yearly as well as television series and straight-to-DVD projects. Her goal is to bring cutting-edge projects to the forefront of the industry and break the monotony of current films being produced. 

Zanes Sex Chroniclesa series loosely based on Zanes real life, premiered on Cinemax on October 10, 2008 and was ground-breaking and successful. Zane served as the Creator, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer. The first season of the series will be released on DVD by HBO Home Video on February 2, 2010, and the second season begins on March 5, 2010. Zanes Sex Chronicles is the highest rated series in Cinemax history. 

The Zane Music Group recently launched in the Fall of 2009. Zane, along with entertainment guru, Maxwell Billieon, will Executive Produce The Zane Music Series, highlighting the sultry sounds of R&B;, Soul and Urban rhythm's, exclusively designed for your life's most memorable moments. Featuring the hottest artists of yesterday and today, all brought together to form the perfect soundtrack to your Zaniac lifestyle. Visit www.zanemusicgroup.com for more information.

Zane will launch her cosmetics line in the summer of 2010, followed by her body product and adult toy lines in the fall of 2010. She will use her independent sales representatives to market all of her lines as well as products of other handpicked vendors. Zane also moderates PlanetZane.net, where thousands of her fans who call themselves Zaniacs converge on a daily basis to discuss her work, as well as love and relationships. During its first month of December 2008, Planet Zane acquired more than 5,500 members and had over 1.5 million page views. Zane has more than 45,000 MySpace friends, 10,000 friends on Facebook, and nearly 400,000 friends on BlackPlanet.com, all invaluable ways to promote her efforts. On Valentines Day 2009, Zane launched Blackgentlemen.com, the sexiest dating web site on the Internet, based on her bestselling book of the same name.

Zane is on the Board of Directors for the Negro League Legends Hall of FameNLLHOFcurrently being erected in Washington, D.C. and is a huge advocate for children. She is in the process of founding a non-profit organization for underprivileged women entitled MADEMaking a Difference Everywhere. She volunteers a lot of her time to other non-profit causes and also does many lectures at colleges and universities throughout the year. Zane also plans to start a mentorship program for young women; a segment of the population that is, in her opinion, too often overlooked and undervalued.

Zane is the only author in history to hold three out of five of the bestselling titles for fiction in Essence magazine and has dominated the list since her first published book in May 2000. She has won the Black Expressions Book of the Year for three years, which is voted on by the 400,000+ members of the Doubleday Book Club; first for her book Addicted, then for her book Nervous and most recently for Afterburn. The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth and Skyscraper were also on the list, making her the only author to ever have three out of ten of the titles on the Book of the Year list. She is the number one bestselling author in the history of the Black Expressions Book Club and was honored with a luncheon at the Doubleday headquarters in New York City. Addicted is the only title that has remained available by Black Expressions for the entire ten years it has been in business.

Zane is also the recipient of the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year for Nervous in 2004 and the Blackboard Erotic Fiction Book of the Year for Skyscraper in 2005; voted on by African-American Booksellers. Zane is also the only author to hold seven of the top fifteen slots for African-American books for Waldenbooks Nationwide. In November 2003, Zane was honored as one of the Architects of Contemporary Culture by the B & B Society at an embassy celebration in Washington, D.C. Zane has won numerous other awards and honors. Recently, Zane won the NAACP 2006 Image Award for Outstanding Fiction for her anthology Breaking the Cycle which deals with domestic abuse and the lasting effect it has on children raised in violent homes.

Some of her other awards include:

2009 Essence Magazines Hollywood Power Players

2009 African-American Literary Awards Show Winner Missionary No More

2008 African-American Literary Awards Show Winner Honey Flava

2008 African American Pavilion at BookExpo America, Audra Lorde "Gambia Adisa" Distinctive Voice Writer and Publisher" Award

2007 Publisher of Note Award, African American Pavilion, Book Expo America

2006 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction Breaking the Cycle

2006 Black Expressions Book of the Year Winner for Afterburn

2005 Black Expressions Book of the Year Winner for Nervous

2004 Black Expressions Book of the Year Winner for Addicted

2005 Blackboard Erotic Book of the Year Winner for Skyscraper

2004 Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year Winner for Nervous

2006 Todays Black Woman Magazines Woman of Achievement Award Winner

2004 B & B Societys Architect of Contemporary Culture Award Winner

2004 Ebony Magazines 40 Most Intriguing African Americans

2004 African-American Literary Awards Show Winner The Sex Chronicles

2004 African-American Literary Awards Show Winner Writer of the Year

Zane has been featured in numerous local and national publications including: The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, The Washington Informer, The Washington Post, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, People, Jet, Ebony, Essence, Vibe, Honey, Newsweek, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, Canadian Press, The Clarion Ledger, The Orange-County Register, The Halifax Daily News, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Chronicle Journal, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, CNN.com, Nashua Telegraph, AOL Black Voices, Yahoo TV, YouTube, The Washington Post Express, The Houston Chronicle, The Waukegan News Sun, Centre Daily Times, The Central Daily Times, BlackNews.com, The Ottawa Citizen, Rolling Out, Upscale, The Source, Sister 2 Sister, and numerous others. She has been the topic of several television programs including a lengthy segment on the CBS Early Show and a documentary on TV-One. Most recently, Swiss Public Television did a full-length documentary on Zane that has been viewed in various countries and translated into several languages, including Italian.

Zanes next several books are slated for publication including: Solitaire: Afterburn 2, Addicted with a Twist, Vengeance; It Is What It Is: Shame on it All Again, and Theres a Pitbull in My Bed. Zane is published in several different languages including Danish, Japanese, and most recently Thai; signifying the fact that she has massive cross-cultural appeal. She is the most successful African-American erotica writer of all-time and her web site, Eroticanoir.com, averages a quarter million hits monthly. Having started building a massive readership via the Internet in late-1997, by the time Zane published her first books in 2000, the books immediately sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

Zane is the daughter of two former educators: an elementary school teacher and a world-renowned theologian who is also the author of nearly two dozen books. The foreword of his latest book was penned by Desmond Tutu. She was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area where she still resides with her three children. Out of all of her accomplishments, Zane is most proud of the remarkable job she has done raising her children.

Zane has taken a taboo topic and turned it into a conversation piece and a way for couples to open up to each other. She recognizes that intimacy is the topic women feel most uncomfortable about and believes that if she can liberate women sexually, it will trickle over into all other aspects of their lives. Non-readers classify her books as pure sex but Zane tackles many topics plaguing todays society including unplanned pregnancy, sexual addiction, multiple personality disorder, and organ donation; just to name a few. Her greatest satisfaction comes from the thousands of weekly emails she receives from readers who feel her writing has changed their lives in positive ways. Zane also gets hundreds of advice emails a month and moderates numerous discussion groups online.

Even with all of her current irons in the fire, Zane insists that her journey has just begun. Zane intends to turn her multi-million dollar corporation into a billion dollar empire within the next five years. Will she do it? Zane never views failure as an option and believes that anything humanly possible is within her reach