C. J. Hudson

Author C.J Hudson hails from the east side of Cleveland where he grew up surrounded by crime, violence, and drugs. Determined to not succumb to that way of living, he attended Kent State University for one year. An avid reader for nearly twenty-five years, C.J was introduced to urban fiction by his future wife when she gave him Carl Weber's Married Men. Although he enjoyed his first urban fiction novel, C.J craved to read about the type of street stories that he saw on a daily basis in the inner city. That's when he started going to Borders and searching out Street lit books. He quickly came across K'wan's classic novel Gangsta. He then went on a reading barrage and read everything from T-Styles to Triple Crown novels. Shortly after that C.J was laid off from his job as a machine operator. While laid off, C.J. decided to try his hand at writing. After writing his first manuscript entitled Skeletons (since changed and published as A Love 2 Die 4), he wrote the manuscript that got him a publishing deal, Chedda Boyz. Since dropping his debut novel, C.J has penned seventeen more novels. This past year, he signed a three book contract with Urban Books. His first book with the company Young Lionz will be released in late February of 2020, followed by his second book Street Banditz which be released in September 2020. Another novel entitled R.I.C.O will also be released on Urban Books in March of 2021. Earlier this year, C.J appeared on the popular game show Family Feud with his wife and in laws as the Murphy family from Cleveland. To see how they did, simply look up the Murphy family on YouTube.