Red Ink: Bosses, Bullies, & Butterflies

By: Butterfly Brooks, Thaddeus Kane

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

"You have to be you, Fly. No matter how hard it is. The world needs the soft, beautiful power of Butterflies.”

Lesli Lyn Faulkner (pen name, Butterfly Brooks) Lifestyle Editor of Mahogany Magazine and founder of the world famous urban fiction blog The Kaleidoscope, watches, monitors, and documents the strange, sinister behind the scenes happenings in the urban fiction industry much to the dismay of its chieftains. She chronicles author rivalries, cyber bullying, reader beatdowns, and corporate in house tension and competition that make rap concerts look like ladies afternoon teas.

At the center of the industry's latest scandal is Kendali Grace, author of The Vixen Notebook and starchild of Dominion Publishing, helmed by the cunning, calculating Hiram Rivers and his wife Georgette. Their fortunes are threatened when Kendali's artistic integrity is called into question on a massive scale spawning a rollercoaster ride of situations, confrontations, and investigations.

All events culminate at the annual Platinum Quill Book Expo, where a key player in the industry is killed. Sex, lies, competition, thievery, plagiarism and murder make for a troublesome climate for any butterfly to flutter her wings. What happens to the industry after the tragic death of one of its beloved? What does it mean for the Bosses? What does it mean for the Bullies? But most of all, what does it mean for the Butterflies?