In 2000, Entertainment Weekly made note of the growing trend of African American male authors who write “sexy, sensitive novels.” Back then, over 15 years ago if you can believe that, some of the hottest African American male authors in the market were the late great E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Channer, Omar Tyree, and Marcus Major. These men, most of them at the time being in their 30s, wrote stories with strong female characters; these stories focused on the tangled web of relationships and love. These men were our male equivalents to Terry McMillan, who had women all over the country Waiting to Exhale  -- with her book and eventually, the movie. I will admit, I LIVED for Eric Jerome Dickey and every book he released almost two decades ago. Sister, Sister ; Friends and Lovers ; Cheaters ; and Milk in My Coffee were my first forays into his writing, and I loved how much I could relate to the women portrayed within the pages and the struggles they lived...