Summer Movie: Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection

Happy June. I was suspicious until I saw this trailer. My family loves Made so this may be our family movie. You can take your grandmom and your children and they all will laugh.

The Official Theatrical Trailer for Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection

Cast: Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, Romeo, Tom Arnold, Doris Roberts, John Amos, Marla Gibbs, Danielle Campbell, Devan Leos

Synopsis:
For years, George Needleman (Levy), the gentle CFO of a Wall Street investment bank, has been living with his head in the clouds. His frustrated second wife, Kate (Richards), has reached her limit taking care of his senile mother, Barbara (Roberts). His teenage daughter, Cindy (Danielle Campbell), is spoiled beyond hope and his seven-year-old son, Howie (Devan Leos), wishes his father were around more. But George is finally forced to wake up when he learns that his firm, Lockwise Industries, has been operating a mob-backed Ponzi scheme -- and that he's been set up as the fall guy.
Facing criminal charges and death threats from the mob, George and his entire family are put under witness protection in the safest place that Brian (Perry), a federal prosecutor from Atlanta, can think of...
His Aunt Madea's house down South.
As a result, Madea and her live-in brother, Uncle Joe (Perry), find themselves managing a completely dysfunctional family from Connecticut. But as George tries to solve the mystery behind Lockwise's finances, Madea whips the Needlemans into shape using her hilarious brand of tough love. And together, they realize they just might have what it takes to unite George's family, outsmart the mob and change everyone's lives for the better.

Summer Inspired Book Fun

The best way to kick off adult summer reading is to get inspired. What better way to do that than chatting with best-selling inspirational drama author Victoria Christopher Murray. She is the author of nine Essence best-selling novels, including The Ex Files; Too Little, Too Late; and Lady Jasmine. She is also the author of the DIVA teen series, winner of the African American Literary Award for Fiction, and Author of the Year. Her newest novel, Destiny Divas(Touchstone), releases this month.

Sierra, Raine, and Liza are Destiny’s Divas, a fresh, new gospel group whose unique blend of singing and testifying has gained them fans across the country. They tell the world about how good God has been to them, but off stage, each member is living a life totally opposite to what she preaches—and each is harboring a secret that could ruin them all.

Twenty-something Sierra Dixon speaks about the joy of being single and celibate, though she is anything but, drifting from one relationship to another. Although she stresses the importance of unconditional love within the family, Raine Omari has hit her breaking point with her mother-in-law and is ready to take drastic steps. And when Liza Washington discovers that her pastor-husband is in the middle of a scandal that could bring down more than just their ministry, she knows she must do something to stop him. One fateful evening their secrets are exposed, and one diva commits an act that could land her in prison for the rest of her life. Each has motive—who will crack?

Read the full article here.

African American Christian Fiction

Thrilling Midwives

by Samuel Thomas

When you picture your typical protagonist for a thriller, a few professions come to mind. You have your detectives, police officers, lawyers, and spies, of course. Occasionally you’ll get a doctor, or a reporter thrown in there, but there is a “type.” Historically speaking they’re usually men, and they are usually in the business of figuring things out. Problems arise when a nefarious person, government agency, or criminal organization (did I repeat myself?), wants to keep them from figuring it out.

In light of this, my decision to write thrillers about a midwife seems brilliantly iconoclastic, right? What less likely protagonist could there be, except a nun? (Shout out to ITW member Nancy Bilyeau, whose recent thriller The Crown is about a nun. It’s excellent and you should read it.) In truth, I started with the midwife, and found myself writing a thriller as if it were the most natural thing in the world. How did this happen?

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Miranda Parker Moderates May 23 #LitChat Literary Mysteries

Literary mysteries take readers beyond the who-did-it and into the psychological playground of murder and mayhem. This Wednesday in #litchat we’ll discuss how literary mysteries differ from mainstream or genre mysteries and why they are often misunderstood. Join me on Twitter at 4PM ET. I will be the guest moderator for this session. Woohoo!  Don’t forget use the hashtag #litchat http://litchat.net/

 

the 99cent UnStory

There are a lot of books, both print and digital that aren’t readable. I’m not talking about the kind of story that may not be your cup of tea. I’m talking about unstories. An UnStory is a book that is poorly written, full of backstory, and goes nowhere. There are tons of them available to download online for as little as 99 cents. But that cheap read will cost you more than you bargained for.

Chick Lit Author Blog Hop

In honor of Inter­na­tional Chick Lit Month I’m cel­e­brat­ing with 34 fab­u­lous authors for the Chick Lit Author Blog Hop. Not only are we cel­e­brat­ing, but we’re giv­ing away ebook good­ies and a $150 Sephora Gift Card for those of you who play along.  So Wel­come to my spot on the hop and let’s get started…

The post below con­tains a “secret” ital­i­cized word (*not a book title). Find it, then col­lect a secret word from each of the other fab­u­lous Chick Lit Blog Hops, and you can qual­ify for the Sephora Gift Card.

Chick Lit on the Edge

I fell in love with Chick Lit in high school when I was intro­duced to Jane Austen. How­ever, I didn’t think I could write it, because for some odd rea­son some­one has to die in my sto­ries, my main char­ac­ter has to be smack dab in the mid­dle of the crime scene, and she has to be smit­ten by a bad boy.

My Angel Craw­ford Series is more like a Chick Lit Sus­pense. It’s min­i­mal on the crime pro­ce­dural jar­gon, strong on the page turn­ing, man­hunt action filled sus­pense, and heavy  on women try­ing to  do the best they can to live their best life and look good while doing it.

Once I became pub­lished I was over­joyed to found sim­i­lar chick­lit sus­pense nov­els like mine. Here are two of my favorites:

Kate White’s Bai­ley Weg­gins Series is my favorite.  ‘Til Death Do Us Part was the novel that hooked me to the series. I had to go back and catch up.

Syn­op­sis: True crime writer and sometime-sleuth Bai­ley Weg­gins takes the plunge into a world of domes­tic divas and deadly nup­tial doings … When she gets a call from Ash­ley Hanes on a frigid night, Bai­ley expects to be hit up for fash­ion show tick­ets. Instead Ash­ley reveals that two brides­maids from Pey­ton Cross’s wed­ding have recently died in freak acci­dents … and Ash­ley is ter­ri­fied she’s next.

Ellen Byerrum’s KILLER HAIR

Syn­op­sis: Fash­ion reporter Lacey Smith­son­ian tack­les a deadly fash­ion crime in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., when A beau­ti­ful dead hair­styl­ist, is found mur­dered.  Amid ditzy diva styl­ists, a fog of D.C. scan­dals and con­spir­a­cies, and a wave of “assisted” sui­cides, Lacey must tease out the twisted truth before she becomes the vic­tim of the Cap­i­tal City’s next fatal coif­fure, assisted by her unstop­pable styl­ist, a short-circuited psy­chic, and the one man she thought she’d never have a sec­ond chance with.

To win a copy of my upcom­ing release SOMEONE BAD and SOMETHING BLUE (June 2012),leave a com­ment with your name and email address.

More about my book, SOMEONE BAD and SOMETHINGBLUE:

Beau­ti­ful, brainy, and tough-as-nails, sin­gle mom and bail recov­ery agent turned sleuth Angel Craw­ford has a lot on her plate. But between crime-solving and kinder­garten car­pool, it’s all in a day’s work…
Ordered to take a vaca­tion, Angel gives in–and sets out to solve the mys­tery that’s got her liv­ing on the edge: a dis­turb­ing deliv­ery and haunt­ing mes­sage that trans­ports her back to the tragic day her fiancée, Gabriel Hwang, was mur­dered. Con­vinced the trail to the killer is no longer cold after six long years, Angel embarks on a hunt for the truth that pro­pels her into Atlanta’s secre­tive speakeasy soci­ety, the annual Run­ning of the Brides, and a romp around a swamp with a hand­some U.S. Mar­shall that may ruin her future with Pas­tor Jus­tus Too-Hot-To-Be-Holy Mor­gan. That is, pro­vid­ing she has a future…

Now here’s your chance to win other nov­e­l­i­cious Chick Lit e-books or a $150 Sephora gift card, read on!

Chick Lit Author Blog Hop Rules:
–Each of the 34 par­tic­i­pat­ing authors has writ­ten a Chick Lit-centric piece. At each stop on the blog (includ­ing mine), you will have the chance to win a free Chick Lit e-book! All you have to do is leave a com­ment on the blog post, includ­ing your name and email address, and you’re auto­mat­i­cally entered to win!
–At the end of this post, you will find a list of all of the stops, so get hop­ping and I know you’ll find some fab­u­lous books.
–And, if you’d like a chance to win a $150 gift­card to Sephora, visit all 34 blogs,  and in each of the author’s posts, you will find a secret ital­i­cized word. Col­lect all 34 secret ital­i­cized words and email the list to CLABlogHop@aol.com before mid­night on Sun­day, May 20th, and you will be entered to win! 
–The e-book win­ners as well as the Grand Prize Sephora gift­card win­ner will be announced on Mon­day, May 21st.

*Con­tests are open to res­i­dents of the United States only.
And so with­out fur­ther ado, here are the Chick Lit Author Blog Hop Participants:

1. Natalie Aaron/Marla Schwartz
2. Erik Atwell
3. Christa Ann Banister
4. Tra­cie Banister
5. Bar­bara Barth
6. Whit­ney Boyd
7. Lacy Camey
8. Margo Can­dela
9. Lisa Cheney/Lisa Craig
10. Lau­ren Clark
11. Jen­nifer Daiker
12. Jenny Gar­diner
13. Heidi Hall
14. Cari Kamm
15. J. F. Kristin
16. Francine LaSala
17. Lisa Lim
18. Kim­berly Lin
19. Saman­tha March
20. Mag­gie Marr
21. Libby Mer­cer
22. Miranda Parker (me)
23. Jackie Pilos­soph
24. Caitie Quinn
25. Bethany Ramos
26. Mered­ith Schorr
27. Rachel Schurig
28. Lisa Scott
29. Nancy Scro­fano
30. Dina Sil­ver
31. Lucie Simone
32. Juli­ette Sobanet
33. Heather Thurmeier
34. Jen Tucker

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    1. Natalie Aaron/Marla Schwartz	2. Erik Atwell	3. Christa Ann Banister
    4. Tracie Banister	5. Barbara Barth	6. Whitney Boyd
    7. Lacy Camey	8. Margo Candela	9. Lisa Cheney/Lisa Craig
    10. Lauren Clark	11. Jennifer Daiker	12. Jenny Gardiner
    13. Heidi Hall	14. Cari Kamm	15. J. F. Kristin
    16. Francine LaSala	17. Lisa Lim	18. Kimberly Lin
    19. Samantha March	20. Maggie Marr	21. Libby Mercer
    22. Miranda Parker	23. Jackie Pilossoph	24. Caitie Quinn
    25. Bethany Ramos	26. Meredith Schorr	27. Rachel Schurig
    28. Lisa Scott	29. Nancy Scrofano	30. Dina Silver
    31. Lucie Simone	32. Juliette Sobanet	33. Heather Thurmeier
    34. Jen Tucker

    
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CHICK LIT AUTHOR BLOG HOP 2012

The 2012  Chick Lit Author Blog Hop

In honor of International Chick Lit Month I’m celebrating with 34 fabulous authors for the Chick Lit Author Blog Hop. Not only are we celebrating, but we’re giving away ebook goodies and a $150 Sephora Gift Card for those of you who play along.  So Welcome to my spot on the hop and let’s get started...

The post below contains a “secret” italicized word (*not a book title). Find it, then collect a secret word from each of the other fabulous Chick Lit Blog Hops, and you can qualify for the Sephora Gift Card.

Click here to participate