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Article: Buying Zane: Strebor Books founder says her new deal with Simon & Schuster frees her to write more.
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Zane, who founded Strebor Books in 1999 as a one-woman, self-publishing enterprise, sold the titles from her publishing company catalogue to Simon & Schuster.
The author of such titles as The Sex Chronicles (2002), Addicted (2001) and Afterburn (2005), Zane says the deal reached in June will free her up for a wide range of projects.
"All I have to do now is acquisitions, so I can go back to my own writing," she explained. "I still decide what is published and who is published."
Zane, whose birth name is a well-guarded secret [See BIBR, September-October 2004, "Zane, Inc."], retains ownership of Strebor, which will become an imprint of Simon & ...