Teri Woods
Teri Woods (born 8, March 1968) is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a successful, self-published pioneer of the urban fiction genre.In 1992, Woods finished writing her first novel, True to the Game, while working as a legal secretary/paralegal in a Philadelphia Center City law firm practicing in defense litigation for a national insurance company.
In 1993, she began writing True to the Game. She copyrighted her work in 1994, and She spent six years submitting the work to numerous publishers, all of which rejected her. After being turned down, the book sat dormant in a closet for two years. By 1997, she was determined to do something for herself.
In 1998, Woods had copies of the book printed herself and began to hand-sell the novel to booksellers in and around the Philadelphia area and, eventually, across the United States, eventually starting Teri Woods Publishing, a self-publishing house to put out her own work and that of others, principally in the urban fiction genre, aimed at a demographic largely ignored by major publishers. Woods's breakout success helped her negotiate a multimillion-dollar contract with Hachette Book Group USA to re-release her previously published novels.
In 2015, it was announced that True to the Game was being produced into a film of the same name.
Woods is the sister of Dexter Wansel, American keyboardist. Teri Woods is featured in the 2011 documentary film, Behind Those Books, which is a thought Provoking Documentary Tackling Societal Ills Through Literature.
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