WE INVITE YOU TO LISTEN TO
A SPECIAL GUEST INTERVIEW ON:
JAN.4TH AT: 2:00 P.M (PST)
with AUTHOR KIMBERLA LAWSON ROBY SHE WILL BE SHARING HER LATEST BOOK CALLED:
"THE PERFECT MARRIAGE"
New York Times Bestselling Author Kimberla Lawson Roby has published 17 novels which include
THE REVEREND’S WIFE,
SECRET OBSESSION, LOVE, HONOR, and BETRAY, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PRAY FOR, A DEEP DARK SECRET,
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, ONE IN A MILLION,
SIN NO MORE, LOVE & LIES, CHANGING FACES,
THE BEST-KEPT SECRET,
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING, A TASTE OF REALITY, IT’S A THIN LINE, CASTING THE FIRST STONE, HERE AND NOW, and her debut title,
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS,
and which was originally self-published through her own company, Lenox
Press. Her novels have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including
The New York Times and those in
USA Today, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine,
Upscale Magazine, Emerge Magazine, Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com,
Wal-Mart, The Dallas Morning News, and
The Austin Chronicle
to name a few and both BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and CASTING THE FIRST STONE
were #1 Blackboard bestsellers for four consecutive months in both 1997
and 2000.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS was the #1 Blackboard Best-selling book for paperback fiction in 1997.
In addition, Kimberla’s first novel was nominated for Blackboard’s
1998 and 1999 Fiction Book of the Year Award, and she received
the Blackboard Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2001 for CASTING THE FIRST STONE. She is also
the
2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 recipient of the Author of the Year –
Female award presented by the African-American Literary Award Show in
New York, the recipient of the 1998 First-Time Author Award
from Chicago’s Black History Month Book Fair and Conference, and her
fifth novel,
A TASTE OF REALITY, was a 2004 finalist for the Atlanta Choice Awards sponsored by the
Atlanta Daily World. Additionally,
TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
received a 2004 Patron Choice Award from the Central Mississippi
Regional Library System, and in 2001, Kimberla was inducted into the
Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL) Alumni Hall of Fame.
Each of Kimberla’s novels has dealt with very real issues, including
corruption within the church, social status, gambling addiction,
infidelity, single motherhood, infertility, sibling rivalry and
jealousy, domestic violence, sexual abuse, mental illness, care-giving
of a parent,
racial and gender discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, overweight issues, and female illnesses to name a few.
Kimberla resides in Illinois with her husband, Will. Her 18th and 19th novels,
THE PERFECT MARRIAGE (January 8) and
A HOUSE DIVIDED (May 7), will be released in 2013.
We have also invited our
Sisterhoods Book club & Friends the
Page Runners Book club to be apart of our reunion show half with
Author Kimberla Lawson Roby. If you have a question you may call into listen to be apart of this show.
Lady K, will be interviewing her Guest Author Susan Maiava Ph.D. She has written her Latest Book called: "FAT CHANCE". This is a marvelous weight-loss guide and her theory examples, "If you just begin to eat the way a Slim person does you will begin to look as slimmer than you do today.
