According to Styles her first novels, Black & Ugly and A Hustler's Son, were written in a week.
[1] Black & Ugly reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list.
[3] Like many novelists within the urban fiction genre, Styles' experienced trials in the streets as a teenager, even doing a stint in jail before she turned her life around and became a bestselling author/publisher.
[6] Styles' screenplay 'Concrete Beach' reached the semifinalist round of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences', Nicholl Fellowship competition in 2018.
[9][10] Tome Rule", Ruth Samuelson, The Washington City Paper, August 29, 2008