Before I pen a book I often interview my main characters on paper. It allows me to get to know them, especially before creating sequels. ‘Raunchy‘ was one of my favorite books to write, because of the emotionally complicated characters. Outside of Kelsi from the ‘A Hustlers Son‘ series, no other character touches my heart more than Madjesty Phillips. This interview is before ‘MAD MAXXX: Children Of The Catacombs‘, of course.

Me: How are you?

Madjesty no reply)

Me: So you don’t want to talk to me?

Madjesty: I don’t feel much like talking these days. (Pulls black baseball cap over her eyes)

Me: Why not?

Madjesty: I never know why. I stopped digging around in my head a long time ago. Hurts too much I guess. (Picks up Hennessy and downs half of the bottle)

Me: Wow, you sure drink a lot.

Madjesty: Toy, please don’t start with me. As much vodka as you drink.

Me: (no reply)

Madjesty: Now look who’s quiet.

Me: (clears throat) Your fans want to know about you. What do you want me to tell them?

Madjesty: Tell them that I love them. And tell them that I can feel their hopes and prayers for me. Tell them that I’m a survivor, and with a mother like Harmony Phillips, you got to be. (A tear falls down her face, and she brushes it away roughly, before grabbing the rest of the Hennessy and finishing it off)

Me: You miss her don’t you?

Madjesty: I hate that bitch! I’m gonna always hate that bitch, and fuck you for trying to make me feel any different! (Gets up and walks away)

Stay tuned for MAD MAXXX – Children Of The Catacombs. JULY 2013

Author. Show Host, Motivational Speaker. Award Winning CEO of The Cartel Publications – an international, independent publishing house and book store. Toy’s publishing house The Cartel Publications, is the face of today’s urban fiction and street fiction industries. In both the digital and print world, the Cartel represents the best her generation has to offer in African American literature. She has aptly been dubbed “Urban Fiction Empress” and “a literary master”.

Toy is multifaceted and currently runs an independent publishing company, movie production company and popular Washington DC and Maryland area book store. In addition, she facilitates her popular seminar “How To Write A Novel In 30 Days”, using her non-fiction novel of the same title. Toy consults authors and publishing houses on what it takes to achieve success and longevity in the industry.

She has been featured in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Essence Magazine, Don Diva Magazine and Urban Book Source. She has been awarded Author Of The Year by AAMBC and was voted Most Underrated Author by The Urban Book Source.

When not writing, running the Cartel or producing independent movies based on her company’s novels, Toy travels and shoots videos for Cartel TV, a show geared toward her publishing house. Her first movie, Pitbulls In A Skirt, under her movie production company Cartel Urban Cinema, is due out in 2013.

Her novels include, The End (How To Write A Book In 30 Days), A Hustler’s Son (series), Black & Ugly (series), Raunchy (series), Shyt List (series), Pitbulls In A Skirt (series), Redbone (series), The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets, Quita’s Dayscare Center, Reversed, Luxury Tax, and Cold As Ice.