The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

.www.zaneonstage.com www.tbaal.org  Zane is the only author to ever hold seven out of fifteen of the bestselling African-American titles at Waldenbooks Nationwide.  Zane is the biggest selling author in the history of Black Expressions Book Club, which has more than 460,000 members. She is the only author to win the Members’ Favorite Book Award several years in a row. Her first novel, Addicted, is the only title that has remained on their list since the inception of the club more than a decade ago.  Zane self-published her first three titles and sold more than 300,000 copies on her own before signing a lucrative multi-million-dollar deal with Simon and Schuster in 2001. Zane was awarded 7 contracts for 15 books in less than one calendar year; a record in the industry. Zane is the 12th most popular author on Facebook. Agatha Christie is 11th and J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, is 13th. She is also the only African-American on the list of 35 names.