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Faye McCray

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in New York City

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Horror

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Faye McCray is the author of Boyfriend, a sexy new novel about a young college student navigating love, fidelity and escaping a painful past. She is also the author of Dani's Belts, a collection of short stories that follow a young college student turned unlikely heroine of the zombie apocalypse. Check out White Belt, Yellow Belt, Orange Belt and Black Belt now on Amazon! You can also find Faye's essays on For Harriet, Madame Noire, Black Girl Nerds, Black and Married with Kids, Graveyard Shift Sisters, and Rachel in the OC. Faye is a native New Yorker and current resident of the Washington, DC metropolitan area where she resides with her husband and sons. ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 136 ratings · 37 reviews · 7 distinct works

	White Belt 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow Belt (Dani's Belts Book 2) 4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boyfriend 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anything but Zombies: A Short Story Anthology by Gerald Dean Rice (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tim Curran, Armand Rosamilia (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orange Belt (Dani's Belts Book 3) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Belt 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I am loved!: Positive Affirmations For Our Children it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Happy, Happy New Year! Welcome, 2025!

Can we just take a moment to process how that’s even possible? Five years since the pandemic. Five. Years. I mean—what the what?

Well, as we step into this new year, I’ve got some fun news to share! It might be brand new to some of you, and for others, not a surprise at all: I’m writing another book!

Yes, surprise, surprise, friends! This time, my book is about s

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“Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman.”
― Faye McCray

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
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