The author
LongTemple.
Novelist. Universe-builder. Quiet witness to the interior lives of grown women and men. LongTemple is the author behind the Platinum Chocolate Universe — an interconnected literary world of romance, psychological sagas, and coloring companions.
Biography
Genres
- Romance · Psychological saga · Spiritual awakening
Themes
- Healing · Resilience · Mature love · Faith · Family · Black excellence
Recognition
- New York Big Book — Winner
- Literary Titan — Gold
- IIBA Finalist · Four-time award recipient
A house of connected stories.
ongTemple writes the way a great host welcomes a guest — with warmth, without hurry, and with the certainty that whoever walks through the door belongs there. Every book in the Platinum Chocolate Universe is a room in the same house: a place to sit down, to be seen, and to remember that healing is a form of love.
The universe began with a single novel and expanded into an interconnected literary world — psychological sagas, mature romances, spiritual awakenings, and coloring companions that let readers linger inside the story a little longer. Characters recur. Streets recur. Faith recurs. So does joy.
LongTemple’s work has been recognized by the New York Big Book Awards, Literary Titan, and the International Impact Book Awards, but the recognition that matters most is the reader who closes the book and says, that stayed with me.