Welcome to the newest hangout of people who love to read urban (or street!) lit! This is the spot for all to discuss urban and urban erotica books, and for readers to hook up with their favorite authors: Find out when their books are coming out, where they'll be appearing, and to invite them to invite your own book club events.

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Shay, I'm 21, an HBCU student, and author of the bestselling novel, Raw: An Erotic Street Tale, and the upcoming novels "Licks" and "Too Raw," and I'm the creator and administrator of the Real Urban Fans network.

I started this network for urban lit fans, and while that includes urban lit authors like me, I want this site to be reader driven, not author driven. In other words, this site WILL NOT be bombarded with blog posts from authors promoting their books. Author promotion day will be Thursdays, and they can post two blogs on that day . . . and that is it. Authors are also welcome to post an additional two posts per week about their books on a message board designed specifically for that purpose. The message board is entitled "Tell us about YOUR book!"

I'm hoping the rest of the blogs will be from readers, commenting on books they've read, books they want to read, their own attempts at writing books, or anything else they want. Authors are also encouraged to blog throughout the week, just not about their own books. And authors, as an encouragement to blog, please feel free to add a jpeg of your book at the end of your blog. But again, authors.....keep in mind this is a fan driven network. Don't overpopulate this network with your own blogs...it will only drive your fanbase away.

With that being said . . . Welcome All! I hope everyone has a GREAT time!

Shay