Styles is the award Winning CEO of The Cartel Publications - an international, independent publishing house. She also owns an independent film production company. To date T. Styles has written 88 novels.

Her screenplay “Concrete Beach”, reached the semifinals round for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, a screenwriting competition, hosted by The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (Oscars). In addition, her other screenplay “Blurred”, reached the top 15%, validating that Styles knows the art of storytelling.

Styles is multifaceted and facilitates her popular writing classes via The Elite Writer's Academy. Styles consults authors and publishing houses on what it takes to achieve success and longevity in the book industry, using the Cartel as a guide.

She has been featured in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Oprah Winfrey's Network and Urban Book Source. She has been awarded Author Of The Year by AAMBC and was voted Most Underrated Author by The Urban Book Source.