Joy Deja King, also known as the Literary Sweetheart, is a National Bestseller Author who has authored young, hip, and sexual novels that introduce readers to street life in all its complexities, as well as the glittering yet destructive entertainment industry. She was the #1 ESSENCE Bestseller Author for seven months for her title Queen Bitch, from her enormously famous Bitch Series, and in 2019, she won the African American Literary Award for Best Street/Urban Fiction for her work Assassins... Joy has established herself as a mainstay in the Urban Street Fiction genre with Episode 1 (Be Careful With Me). Joy made her literary debut with the publication of her first novel, Dirty Little Secrets (under the St. Martin's Press imprint). Martin's Press), and the sequel Hooker to Housewife (St. Martin's Press).