In The Author's Corner With Etienne

Born in Panama in 1972, Kai came to New York in 1981 with her mother. She discovered her writing gift as a junior at Boys & Girls High School when an English teacher gave her an assignment to develop a story from just one paragraph and since then, her pen was hot. Through the years, Kai continued to write any and everything not only to keep her gift alive but also for therapeutic reasons. She decided to pen the first 3 chapters of Alani’s Bigger Hustle. Only after she submitted the first 3 chapters did she decide to write the rest of the book “just to see what I would do with it”. “This story literally lived inside of me since I was 12 years old, it grew up with me and I knew one day it would be out in the world for all to see, it just had to!” Kai, first signed to a publishing house in August 2008, was ready to be published in October 2010 when she discovered the company was not all ready to release her book. On Facebook, Kai found Twenty First Street Urban Editing & Publishing, LLC, that brought