Teri Woods

Who is Teri Woods?

Teri Woods is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the most successful self-published authors in the United States.

Woods finished writing her first novel, True to the Game, in 1992 while working at a law firm in Philadelphia. She spent six years submitting the work to numerous publishers, all of whom rejected her. 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.