Author Spotlight - Assata Akil

Assata Akil was born in Akron, OH, but left at a young age due to her mother's entrepreneurial spirit, love for travel, and new adventures. Throughout childhood, she lived in different U.S. cities and learned how to adapt to new places. At the age of nineteen, Assata made a bold decision and moved to Alajuela, Costa Rica – a place where she had no connections. There, she met people who had little material possessions, but had immense wealth because of how much love and happiness they experienced in their life. This way of seeing wealth changed her priorities. Inspired to continuously live internally wealthy and physically abroad, she began working as an international flight attendant.

In 2018 Assata published her first book, Ear Candy, an exciting and unpredictable collection of short, erotic, fictional stories, and confessions. The stories are written from both men and women perspectives and will take the reader on an exciting ride. Don’t worry about your waistline, Ear Candy goes straight to your libido!  She followed in 2021 with Petty Cache, a poetic conglomerate of blunt and petty thoughts on the adventures and misadventures of love, life and irony for the petty at heart.

Assata’s writing style is uniquely signature, empowering readers to experience an outlook that mimics the way she lives her life: expressive, unapologetic, sensual, and poetic.

Presently, Assata is the featured columnist for “Love in the Time of Covid”, a column in the online magazine Mid City Beat.  She recently started a vlog on her YouTube channel where she and her husband Cedric discuss and review their passions of travel and relationships: . You can also find more of her writing on her website. Her newest book, Ear Candy – The Fetish Addition, was released in May. It combines short stories, confessions, and poetry with fetish twists. The most exciting book yet!

Both Ear Candy and Petty Cash are available for purchase at Between The Lines bookstore.