Marissa 
Monteilh (Mon-tay) is the best-selling author of eight mainstream novels, May December Souls, The Chocolate Ship, Hot Boyz, Dr. Feelgood, Something He Can Feel, As Fate Would Have It (e-book), Hot Girlz, and Make Me Hot. Make Me Hot was a 2006 African American Literary Award nominee. She also contributed to an erotica anthology called Morning Noon and Night: Can't Get Enough. Hot Girlz is the sequel to Hot Boyz (2004), and hits the shelves in January 2011.
Marissa writes erotica under the pseudonym, . was the winner of the 2008 YOUnity award for Fastest Rising Literary Star. Warner Books released the first title, Erotic City, in November 2008. Erotic City was also a finalist for a 2009 African American Literary Award in the category of erotica and was voted one of the Best Reads for 2008 by Black Expressions. The second title, Sexaholics, about four women addicted to sex, comes out on March 23, 2010. The third title, Sixty Nine, about three women born in 1969 who are about to turn the big 4-0, comes out in 2011, and a title on the subject of escorts follows in 2012.
A former model, commercial actress, and television news reporter, Marissa self-published her first book in 2000, and signed her first book deal in 2001. Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family and is also trying her hand at playwriting, adapting May December Souls into a stage play.
Please follow Marissa's blogs on Novel Spaces www.novelspaces.blogspot.com, where she contributes along with ten other authors, and on her crusade website Just Say No to Married Men www.justsaynotomarriedmen.com.
