K’WAN is the best-selling, award-winning author of more thirty novels, including the wildly popular Animal series, Black Lotus , Gangsta , Road Dawgz , Street Dreams , Hoodlum , and Section 8 . He has been featured in Vibe , King , Entertainment Weekly , and Time magazine . K’wan was the recipient of the 2012 and 2013 Street Lit Book Award Medals (SLBAM) in adult fiction for Eviction Notice and Animal . His credits also include featured commentary in the documentary Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (produced by Ice-T) as well as a recurring role as an analyst on TV One’s Celebrity Crime Files . K’wan resides in New Jersey, where he spends his time writing, cooking, and binge-watching reruns of The Vampire Diaries with his teenage daughters. Black Lotus 2: The Vow is his latest novel. Radiah: Tell us about Black Lotus 2 : The Vow. K’wan: Black Lotus 2 picks up a few months after the events in Black Lotus, and right before Kahllah’s character is introd...