Playwright/Director and Author
Brittani Williams
Brittani Williams was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, but currently resides in Newark, Delaware. She began writing when a school assignment required her to write a short play. This assignment showed her how far her imagination could go and it also helped her escape the drama of an unhealthy and abusive relationship in her home and molestation by an older relative. With writing only being a hobby, Brittani grew into an adult and attended a few different colleges. Writing still remained just a hobby but she strived for a degree, unfortunately she could never settle on one that fit her interests. 94 college credits later, she's taken Nursing Prerequisites, Education classes, Paralegal Studies and Graphic and Fashion Design Majors and still had yet to find what she loved.
After much encouragement from family, friends and co-workers alike Brittani, now a single mother, focused on writing again while on a break from school. She completed her first manuscript in 2005 which was titled Automatic Princess. After months of research she found a publishing company that she wanted to submit to. She submitted the manuscript and received a quick response. Within four months she had signing a two-book contract with Q-Boro books, a publisher in Queens, New York.
The last five years have definitely been a blessing for Brittani with the highly successful release of Daddy's Little Girl and tons of great feedback from readers all over. She has had the opportunity to participate in two anthology projects Fantasy (Urban Lifestyle Press) and Flexin' & Sexin' (Life Changing Books) with some of the hottest authors in the game. With the release of Sugar Walls, her sophomore novel she had four projects in circulation, all released in the same year.
In 2008, she came back even stronger with The Cathouse, a novel that she co-wrote with authors Anna J and Laurinda D. Brown in June and In December 2008 Black Diamond, her third novel was released on Urban books with a sequel Black Diamond 2: Nicety Release in May 2010. She went on to sign a new three-book deal with her publisher Urban Books for Cover Girl, Black Diamond 3 and the forthcoming novel, The Don's Desire.
Her next venture is successfully running her own publishing company, Trendsetters Publications, a Philadelphia based corporation that will publish fiction novels in the genres of Urban, Erotica and Contemporary. The company will release four novels at the start of 2013, two of which are the first two installments in a teen series written by Brittani called The Pretty Committee. The series will focus on many issues that teens of today experience and will be able to capture those that have moved on to adult books without them feeling like the books are for children. With this teen series, she plans to do a school tour and also plans to start up a creative writing scholarship for her Alma matter, Dobbins Vocational High School, in Philadelphia. In addition to all of these things the ink is almost dry on her non-profit organization, which will launch in 2013.
In June 2010, Brittani made her directorial debut with the stage play adaptation of her best selling novel Black Diamond, which she also wrote and produced bringing in over 700 attendees in one evening. She is currently working on the script for another one of her novels Sugar Walls and an urban gospel play titled Shattered: His Lies, Their Lives as well as her 7th novel and many other short story projects This busy body, at just 31 years old, has branded her self, making her a force to be reckoned with.
For 2013 she is going out on a huge promotional tour, including book signings, radio interviews, schools, book clubs and more.
