Zane is also partnered with Suzanne dePasse in dePasse/Zane Entertainment. Beginning in the summer of 2006, dePasse/Zane Entertainment will produce at least six film projects yearly as well as television series and straight-to-DVD projects. Their goal is to bring cutting edge projects to the forefront of the industry and break the monotony of current films being produced. Zanes novel Addicted will be released in wide theatrical release in May 2007 by Lions Gate Films; the same film company which has celebrated recent box office triumphs with the Tyler Perry films and won the Oscar for Best Picture for their film Crash at the 2006 Academy Awards.

Zanes first stage play, based on her novel Addicted will launch during the fall of 2006 and will tour for 36 weeks and travel to 55 cities.

Zane will launch her body product line in the summer of 2006 followed by her clothing and adult toy lines in the fall. She will use her independent sales representatives to market all of her lines as well as products of other handpicked vendors.

Zane is on the Board of Directors for the Negro League Legend Hall of Fame currently being erected in Washington, D.C. and is a huge advocate for children. She is in the process of founding a non-profit organization for underprivileged women entitled MADE Making a Difference Everywhere. She volunteers a lot of her time to other non-profit causes and also does a limited amount of lectures at colleges and universities throughout the year.

Zane is the only author to hold three out of five of the bestselling titles for fiction in Essence magazine and has dominated the list since her first published book in May 2000. Zane, Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan are the only three African-American women to make the print list of the New York Times Fiction Bestselling list this century. She has won the Black Expressions Book of the Year for the past three years, which is voted on by the 400,000+ members of the Doubleday Book Club; first for her book Addicted, then for her book Nervous and most recently for her book Afterburn in 2006. The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth and Skyscraper were also on the list, making her the only author to ever have three out of ten of the titles on the Book of the Year list. She is the number one bestselling author in the history of the Black Expressions Book Club and was honored with a luncheon at the Doubleday headquarters in New York City. Zane is also the recipient of the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year for Nervous in 2004 and the Blackboard Erotic Fiction Book of the Year for Skyscraper in 2005; voted on by African-American Booksellers. Zane is also the only author to hold seven of the top fifteen slots for African-American books for Waldenbooks Nationwide. In November 2003, Zane was honored as one of the Architects of Contemporary Culture by the B & B Society at an embassy celebration in Washington, D.C. Zane has won numerous other awards and honors. Recently, Zane won the NAACP 2006 Image Award for Outstanding Fiction for her anthology Breaking the Cycle which deals with domestic abuse and the lasting effect it has on children raised in violent homes.

Zane has been featured in numerous local and national publications including: The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, The Washington Informer, The Washington Post, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, People, Jet, Ebony, Essence, Vibe, Honey, Newsweek, Rolling Out, and numerous others. She has been the topic of several television programs including a lengthy segment on the CBS Early Show.

Zanes next several books are slated for publication including: Dear G Spot, Addicted with a Twist, Vengeance, Love is Never Painless, It Is What It Is: Shame on it All Again, Theres a Pitbull in My Bed and Another Time, Another Place. Zane is published in several different languages including Danish, Japanese, and most recently Thai; signifying the fact that she has massive cross-cultural appeal. She is the most successful African-American erotica writer of all-time and her web site, Eroticanoir.com, averages a quarter million hits monthly. Having started building a massive readership via the Internet in late-1997, by the time Zane published her first books in 2000, the books immediately sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

Zane is the daughter of two former educators: an elementary school teacher and a world-renowned theologian who is also the author of nearly two dozen books. The foreword of his latest book was penned by Desmond Tutu. She was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area where she still resides with her three children. Out of all of her accomplishments, Zane is most proud of the remarkable job she has done raising her children.

Zane has taken a taboo topic and turned it into a conversation piece and a way for couples to open up to each other. She recognizes that intimacy is the topic women feel most uncomfortable about and believes that if she can liberate women sexually, it will trickle over into all other aspects of their lives. Non-readers classify her books as pure sex but Zane tackles many topics plaguing todays society including unplanned pregnancy, sexual addiction, multiple personality disorder, and organ donation; just to name a few. Her greatest satisfaction comes the thousands of weekly emails she receives from readers who feel her writing has changed their lives in positive ways. Zane also gets hundreds of advice emails a month and moderates numerous discussion groups online.

Even with all of her current irons in the fire, Zane insists that her journey has just begun. Not yet forty years of age, Zane intends to turn her multi-million dollar corporation into a billion dollar empire within the next five years. Will she do it? Zane never views failure as an option and believes that anything humanly possible is within her reach. Zane can be contacted via email at zane@eroticanoir.com.