Dr. Maxine Thompson is the owner of Maxine Thompson’s Literary Services, Thompson’s Literary Agency and Black Butterfly Press. She is the founder of non-profit, Maxine Thompson's Literary and Education Services. Maxine is making her mark in the literary and publishing fields, opening doors once closed to black writers and bringing new emerging writers with intriguing story lines and characters with depth and texture with her.

In November 2006, Dr. Thompson joined with Sheba Media (www.shebamedia.com)as an independent literary agent in an effort to obtain book-to-film deals.

Over the past six years, Dr. Thompson has conducted 1,000 of hours of live Internet radio interviews with hours. She has been a host with Artistfirst.com for three years. She hosted on Voiceamerica for nearly five years from March 2002 to December 2006. She launched her own Internet Radio network on March 1, 2005 at www.maxineshow.com

Dr. Maxine Thompson is the author of novels, The Ebony Tree, No Pockets in a Shroud, Short story collection, A Place Called Home, Ebooks, The Hush Hush Secrets of Creating a Life you Love, The Hush Hush Secrets of Writing Fiction That Sells, How to Write, Market and Sell your book Via e-book Publishing, and included in anthologies, Saturday Morning, (Published under Black Butterfly Press), Proverbs for the People, Secret Lovers, Never Knew Love Like This Before, and All in the Family. SECRET LOVERS made the Black Expression's Book Club Bestselling list on 7-8-06 (after a 6-6-06 release date.) A new anthology, All in the Family, (her novella, Summer of Salvation) came out in April 2007. Another new anthology, Never Knew Love Like This Before, (including her novella, Katrina Blues,) was published in June 2007. It is also a Black Expression's Choice. It has been #13 on Amazon’s top 100 bestseller’s list and has been listed as a multicultural and romance anthology many times. She has an upcoming nonfiction title, Heal Thy Soul: 365 Days of Healing for Women of Color due out in 2009.