Monique Chanae is a Newark, New Jersey native, mother of two and a natural born storyteller. She has had a passion for writing ever since she learned to put pen to pad, beginning her first full length novel the summer of her 8th grade year. Her journey into the publishing industry started when she contributed a short story "Heiress" to the When it Rains it Pours anthology alongside three other authors in July 2012. Her debut novel "Lighter to My Cigarette" was released in September of the same year. Her next release was a short story/novella entitled "Motives: Everybody's Got One" published in January 2013. To date, Monique Chanae has published several novels and is hard at work on new projects, each belonging to an array of genres to entice readers of every kind.