A Simple Chat with RIM's Founder Author Elizabeth LaShaun

The first interview of the year with 
Vice President Karen Reynolds was heldwith the 
Founder of RIM 

Kim McRae aka Author Elizabeth LaShaun!

Kim spent her holiday with her family laughing, cooking, and eating.

Kim is currently reading Sex in the Sanctuary by Lutisha Lovely. LaShaun states that," its a great book" thus far. She has just finished Waking with Enemy by Eric Jerome Dickey, which is another great book.

What to look out for this year from this author? She is releasing the last book in the Love series titled A Mother's Love. Other projects are pending but no other releases are pending for this year.

If you have not gotten a chance to partake in the Love series please go to http://www.elizabethlashaun.com/ and get caught up on all her works.

Books written by Author Elizabeth LaShaun include:

Inconvenient Love

In His Absence

Lethal Love

Three The Hard Way (co-written with KR Bankston)

Crossroads: An Anthology (co written with Keith Gaston, Keith Williams, and Kr Bankston)

This interview was conducted by Readers In Motion's Vice President Karen Reynolds. 

Holiday Interview- Fiona Zedde

Holiday Interview #8

Fiona Zedde

Holiday Interview #8 is with the Caribbean page turner,

Fiona Zedde.

Fiona will be spending her holiday by going to Jamaica to visit friends and family

.

She is currently reading Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones.

What to look for in 2013?

 Broken in Soft Places. This novel will be published by Bold Strokes Books, instead of Kensington.

 

Fiona Zedde's novels can be purchased

Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

Some of her titles include...

Nightshade
Bliss
Retuen to Me
Dangerous Pleasures

Her latest creation Broken in Soft Places will be released

May 2013.

For more info on this author please go to

 http://www.fionazedde.com/.

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds,

Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub.

Holiday Interview 7- Brenda Hampton

Holiday Interview #7

Brenda Hampton

Holiday Interview #7 is with the author of the Naughty series, Brenda Hampton!

Mrs Hampton, like most, is spending time with her family. She is also catching up on her reading and finishing part two to her novel, Hell House.

Brenda is currently reading Wrong Chance by Oasis.

What new projects to look for in 2013?

Hell House 2 & 3 and No Turning Back with Eric Myrieckes.

Mrs Hampton, also is pleased to announce that she has a reality TV show that focuses on positive African American women in the works.

Brenda Hampton's novels can be purchased at all major outlets.

Some of her titles include:

Naughty 1

Naughty 2

Naughty 3

Naughty 4: Naughty No More

Naughty 5: Too Naughty

Naughty 6: Naughty No More

Jaylin's World, The Finale

Her latest novel is named Hell House is available

 for purchase now.

Also check out her website

http://www.brendamhampton.com/.

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds,

Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub

.

Holiday Author Interview 6- KR Bankston

Holiday Interview #6

 Author KR Bankston

BOOM WHO STEPPED IN THE ROOM!

The creator of one of my fictional boos, Ian "Ice" Bailey, Mrs Kr Bankston. Our friend is busy as usual during the holiday season. She is spending time with her family, she is going to be doing a bit of traveling, and of course hanging out with her readers!

She is currently not reading one book per se, she is stockpiling them due to her work schedule.

What to expect from KR Bankston in 2013? She is not ready to reveal this to us readers at this time, but please keep your eyes and emails open for an announcement. The announcement will be posted on Facebook as well as via her newsletter. 

KR Bankston's novels can be purchased at all major outlets.

Some of her titles include:

Crossroads: An Anthology
(with Author Elizabeth LaShaun, Author Keith Kareem Williams, Author DK Gaston)

Unraveled: A Short Story Collective

Epic Serial Novel: Thin Ice Series

Her latest in the Thin Ice Series is called

Thin Ice 11 – Homecoming

Not connected to her newsletter, please go www.krbankstononline.com and stay in the know!

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds,

Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub

Holiday Author Interview 5- Tiffany Warren

Holiday Author Interview 5

 

Tiffany Warren

 

Holiday Interview #5 is with the lovely Tiffany Warren. Ms Warren is cooking up a storm for this holiday season she looking to make up to twenty desserts! "Cooking is my thing, and I happen to be pretty good at it!", states Warren. Well her writing skills aren't too shabby either.

 

Tiffany is currently reading The Secret She Kept by ReShonda Tate Billingsley.

 

Projects that Ms Warren has coming out in 2013?

...

 

Don’t Tell a Soul, the sequel to What a Sista Should Do, coming out February 1st. Which is causing her alot of excitement because it's been awhile since she has had a adult fiction title out. Book six, to the Fab Life series, will also be coming out sometime next year but under the pen name Nikki Carter.

 

Also, Tiffany is brand new chocolatier for Dove Chocolate Discoveries! Look forward to lots of chocolate themed book events from this author! Check out her chocolate discoveries page at

www.mychocolatedream.com.

 

 

Tiffany L. Warren's novels can be purchased Barnes

 and Noble, Amazon, and her official website.

 

Some of her titles include...

It’s All Good (Written by Nikki Carter)

Farther than I Meant to Go, Longer than I Meant to Stay

Chocolate Dreams

The Bishop’s Daughter

 

 

Her latest creation Don't Tell A Soul  will be released

Febuary 2013.

 

Also check out her website

http://www.tiffanylwarren.com/

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds,

Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub.

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday Author Short Interview 3: Author PL Wilson aka Pat Tucker

Holiday Author Short Interview 3 

 Author PL Wilson aka Pat Tucker

She also like most is spending the holidays enjoying time with my

 family and friends. She states that this time of year really drives

home the importance of being with those who are most important

to you.

Pat is currently reading Raging Blue by Renee Daniel Flagler.

What to expect in 2013 from this author? In February, A Social

Affair co written with Earl Sewell drops and then in September just

in time for Football Season, Sideline Scandals drops

.

Pat Tucker's novels can be purchased at all major outlets. 

 

 

• Holy Hustler
• Daddy by Default
• Party Girl
• Infidelity
• Led Astray
• Proceed With Caution
• And Many More

Her latest creation A Socail Affiar cowritten by Eric Sewell will be released Febuary 2013.

Also check out her website

http://fromcovertocovershow.info/ptucker/

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds, Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub.

Holiday Author Short Interview 2: Electa Rome Parks

Holiday Author Short Interview 2:

Electa Rome Parks

 Guess which stalking mind stopped by for a chat? If

you haven't guessed...spoiler alert Electa Rome Parks!

Miss Parks is super busy juggling all her holiday stops

going from one family members to another's. She is

working on her own personal projects so she has not

had the time to keep up on her personal reading.

 

What projects to expect from her in 2013?

When Baldwin Loved Brenden, coming out January of

2013. Also an anthology coming out May of 2013,

called Full Figured 6 that is co-written with the

talented Eric Pete.

Electra Rome Parks novel can be purchased at all major outlets. 

Some of her titles include:

• Loose Ends 
• Almost Doesn't Count
• These Are My Confessions
• Ladies' Night Out
• Diary of a Stalker
• True Confessions
• The Stalker Chronicles

Her latest creation When Baldwin Loved Brenden will make its debut January 2013.

Also check out her website http://www.electaromeparks.com/.
Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds, Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub.

 

Holiday Author Interview: Lutishia Lovely

Holiday Author Interview: Lutishia Lovely

Even though it's the holiday season some of our favorite authors have taken time out of their busy schedules to let us you what they are doing. First of the holiday interviews is Ms Lutishia Lovely. She is spending her holiday season at home, which is located in the beautiful wine country of southern Cali. When she is not spending time with her family or shopping,she is keeping up on her own personal reading currently she is finishing up Keith Thomas Walker's Dripping Chocolate. She states that next on her list is President Obama's The Audacity of Hope via audiobook.

The big question I had for her, is what to expect from her in 2013? She is working on her eighth book in the Hallelujah Love series, The Eleventh Commandment, which releases in February. Also some time in either the fall or winter a new trilogy will coming out. Last but not least, if you have not subscribed to it please do, her newsletter with Zuri Day. It is called Lovely Day News.

Lutishia wishes us all a great holiday and is declaring that 2013, will be great year!

Thank you Lutishia for always being willing to talk to the fans!

Lutisha Lovely's novel can be purchased at all major outlets. 

Some of her titles include:

•  Sex In The Sanctuary
• Love Like Hallelujah
• A Preacher’s Passion,
• Heaven Right Here
•  Reverend Feelgood
• Heaven Forbid

Her latest creation The Eleventh Commandent will make its debut Febuary 2013

Also check out her website http://lutishialovely.com/

Interview was conducted by Karen Reynolds, Vice President of Readers In Motion Bookclub.

RIM's Review of A Marriage of Convenience by Jewel Amethyst

RIM's Review of

A Marriage of Convenience by Jewel Amethyst  

When one door closes a window opens, or so the cliché says.

Tamara is jilted at the altar and financially taken for everything she has by a con artist. When the bills are due and she is unemployed; Tamara is looking for the window. Her best friend, Jordan, presents her with a request that will help her financially; yet the requirement is she marry a perfect stranger. When, to marry or lose everything, become her choices, Tamara takes the man and his money.  Yet what if the sham that they portray became real?

Tamara is a full figured beauty that doesn’t know she is beautiful. She is always comparing herself to her society approved thinner cousins as the standard of true beauty. Adding in straight hair or hair weaves and color contacts she again errantly thinks are necessary to prove one’s beauty. In accepting the attention and compliments of her husband, Tamara learns that her natural, confident self is all the beauty she needs.

Kwabena is a handsome accomplished scientist. He has many degrees and awards to back his intelligence up; however, he conveys himself to Tamara as just another man from Ghana. He never lets on about his company, his accomplishments, or even his ability to speak several other languages. Kwabena like Tamara has his own hidden issues; including running from an arranged marriage and an evil ex fiancé that wants him back.

Through all the twists and turns of this relationship, one is taken for a multicultural experience. The reader will learn about Jamaican, Ghanaian, and African foods, clothing, history and even a few words. The interaction between the American family and Ghanaian family shows that no matter the language, love and respect is universal.  As this couple faces their pasts collectively, they must also look to there future to see if once their arrangement is fulfilled will they remain a couple? Can what was supposed to be a temporary fix be something permanent?

My Rating: 5*****

Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub

Review by Karen Reynolds



RIM's Reviews Dangerous Pleasures by Fiona Zedde

Dangerous Pleasures by Fiona Zedde

  

Two friends who are brought together by schoolyard drama are forever inseparable. Mayson met Renee when her family moved from Jamaica to Dana Point, when the other kids picked on her for her accent Renee defended her; and for the rest of their lives they would defend each other. Renee would need defending for her choice to end her marriage of too many changes. Her ex-husband Linc always trying to change her to what he wants versus who she really is and with Mayson being a lesbian she needs to be defended from her ex flings that sometimes want more than a fling.

Renee is tired of being sweet, innocent, a damsel in distress Renee. After the divorce, she no longer sees the benefits of a traditional relationship other than the sex. Since there is nothing else she feels like she can control other than her sex partner she decides to do something for herself. So after much deliberation and some ill advice from Mayson, Renee signs up for an online dating site and finds someone to her liking and begins to get her groove back.

Mayson is never in a rut as far as sex goes; anytime she needs a fix she thumbs through her black book and finds someone to scratch the itch. However she has one rule; she does not have any desire to be a straight woman’s experiment into the art of lesbian sex.  As Mayson avoids relationships for booty calls, she finds herself in a ticklish position; she is now the center of a straight woman’s fantasies, which of course goes against her rule. Mayson soon realizes that fantasies can turn deadly.

Here we see love has no gender, has no hurt and sometimes has no sense of time. As each woman is forced to take off the blindfold, no matter the material it is made of, and see each other and herself for what they are. Decisions that can not be made by society’s standards or even the ones that can be dictated by corporate America, but from a loving heart. The heart wants what the heart wants and sometimes the easiest decision is the one that’s right in front of you.

My Rating 5*****

Review by Karen Reynolds

Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub

RIM's Reviews Hot Fun In The Summertime by Chicki Brown

RIM's Reviews

Hot Fun In The Summertime

 by Chicki Brown

Every summer six friends rent a home on the Jersey shore for rest and relaxation but yet still manage to work. Linda is an accountant and real estate broker, Shontae is a fiction author, Doc and Kip are professors, Kinnick a model, and Jo a hair stylist to the stars. However this year Kip brings a friend, Devon, with him. He too is a model, heating up with the women in the house. On the first day they pay rent, divvy up chores, set down the ground rules and pick out rooms.  As everyone finds their own corner of paradise and set out to venture the beach, some old memories transform into new ones.     

 Kinnick, working as a video model, is constantly looking for the next come-up which is normally in a baller’s pocket. She plays a deadly game of being a rappers lady yet flirty with a mogul expecting neither to find out about the other. However when the lies catch up to her will she learn that a woman can have it all and not need to sell her body in the process?

Linda is coming out of an ugly divorce and is not looking for new seat filler just yet. However Doc has his sights set on her again this summer and is not letting her use her year old divorce as a crutch. As hard as Linda tries to control the situations surrounding her, she might have to let go of her preconceived notions of Doc and blast through her post divorce thoughts of men.

Kip, the forever player, is scoping the beaches for young women to fill his summer calendar and bed; however he needs to keep an eye out for the cops because an older black man dating young white females still causes some upset to the community. Seems archaic, but racism is still evident.  Kip seems quite smitten however by this summer’s catch no matter the consequences.

Shontae was hesitant to come this summer due to last summer’s debacle with Kinnick. However she has two things to accomplish this summer, getting her new novel done and the purchase of a home, and no one is coming between those goals, or so she thought. Devon seems bound and determined to get her attention and to get her to give love another chance.

 Jo and Walter have been together for five years and he is ready to take it to the next step, a business partnership. Slightly disappointed Jo takes him up on his offer but not prepared for all the conditions that come with the hefty price tag. Will her dreams of being the best in the business leave her before they start?

Interesting how in three short months the issues that all the characters faced were things they had been using as crutches all their lives and as with any injury eventually the crutch is no longer useful.

My Rating: 3 ½ stars

Review for Readers in Motion Bookclub

Review by Karen Reynolds

RIM's Review of Inner Journey Home Letters to My Son, Love Dad by Malcolm Baptiste

Inner Journey Home Letters to My Son, Love Dad by  Malcolm Baptiste

As any parent that has a child you want what’s best for him or her, even when that means neglecting yourself of things or pushing past your own capacity. However some parents’ capacity is small because their own parents couldn’t get past generational issues, which then get passed on until someone can break the pattern.  In this story a father reaches out to his son that is now incarcerated and tries in his own way to encourage him and yet explain to him why things are they way they are.

Correspondence between father and son is a series of letters from the father’s prospective starting with the son’s court appeal trail date until the day they take a family photo.  In efforts to ease the son’s time in jail, the father starts from the beginning, his beginning, describing to his son the relationship with his parents, mostly his mother.  In efforts to make a son a better man she teaches him in a cruel way how to be man, talking negatively about him and worse yet to him, telling him things like he is worthless and will never be anything.  Later in life when the father becomes a drug addict he hears all the things she told him like a tape player and fights daily to prove her wrong and prove to himself he is worthy of all the good things life has to offer.

In need of help to get clean and stay clean the father enters rehab. In rehab he addresses all his issues from the negative tapes of his mom, the need of the drug, dating, and his own mental state.  Through some of the exercises in group therapy the father finds salvation and journaling. He begins to journal his life’s experiences in and out of rehab, in efforts to connect to his son he sends him excerpts of what he has written and what he feels about life and most importantly he constantly conveys his love for his son.

Readers probably would like to have liked to see more dialogue between the father and son. All the reader knows is that the son does respond to the letters but not aware of what he says. However readers can appreciate the honesty of the father, because most parents want to protect their child or children by not telling them what could essentially keep them from harm’s way.  So often we need help but to afraid to reach for it. A father’s love versus his attendance seemed to be an issue but in this case his love superseded his lack of attendance and a son sees a life outside of the 8 by 10 he is in.

My Rating 3 ½ stars
Review by Karen Reynolds
Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub

RIM's Review of Keeper of My Soul by Keshia Dawn

RIM's Review of Keeper of My Soul by Keshia Dawn

How many times can a marriage survive the same problem? Keithe would like to know after all these years of being married to his wife Michelle. Yes, he loves her but he has to love himself and the Lord more than all this woman has put him through.

he believes that through enough faith for the both of them, things will get better., wants to be a successful husband. Though he has heard rumors around the courthouse involving his wife, without direct concrete proof he is not about to move on. Granted her, Keithe

Michelle, is a successful judge but even more successful as an always on the prowl cougar. In her heart of hearts she does love her husband, she just doesn’t know how to show it. Due to her lack of emotional ties growing up, she proceeds to do her dirt and still try to hold onto the marriage any way she can, even lying about a very living past.

Stoney is a confused young woman growing up with no mother. Instead, she was raised by her schizophrenic grandmother, which leads her to daily question her own sanity and worse yet take medication that is not hers. Once her grandmother passes away, Stoney is ready to move from little city to big city in a quest to search for the mother that abandoned her and her grandmother. What Stoney didn’t expect were all the lives involved and the road it would lead her down.

As these lives intertwine like vines, the lies that they each have based their life on do as well. When all that has been done in the dark comes to light, will a lost child be found, a husband finally honored, and a wife ready to submit to the full idea of marriage, just not the aspects of partnership?


My Rating 5 STARS *****
Review by Karen Reynolds
Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub

RIM's Review of Caught Up By Jacob “JB” Burrage

RIM's Review of

Caught Up By Jacob “JB” Burrage

It was interesting how one moment changed everything for successful author Jeremiah Blackwood; and how sitting at the bus stop would put his world into super orbit. That day he meet a woman named Shirley, and while taking her from her man wasn't the plan, neither was all the hell that opened up from her existence in his life. As their crazy alignment becomes a relationship; lies, secrets, and other people, have Jeremiah wishing he had driven the day he meet her.

They exchanged numbers, chatted for a few days, and then Shirley made her move. After all the complaining about her man, she just needed someone to love her. How could he deny her when she possessed one of the best bodies he had ever seen? They had sex until the morning, yet Jeremiah awakes to an empty bed. This would happen a lot after their late night rendezvous. Finally as any man would, he forces her to decide choose him or her man. What he gets in response shakes his core and she chooses neither instead make moves with a woman.

As Shirley leads Jeremiah through a on again, off again, relationship he sexes down a few willing females: including Shirley's new girlfriend. The repercussions of her unwillingness to make a man or woman her main attraction leads this cast through some life or death situations.

The hypocrisy of the double standard is displayed frequently. While socially acceptable for a man to sleep around, a woman does it she is called everything but a woman when displays the exact same behavior. The author does however slightly redeem themselves and makes mention for men to take heed that the game they have so longed played is now being perfected by women.
 
Love has no shape, color, race, and nowadays gender, yet can be disguised by lust. Lust is the physical need to have someone where love is the desire of another's affection. Lust drives the hearts of men to kill for a one night stand, when love knows there are no more one nights there is only every night.





My Rating: 4 ****stars

Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub

Review by Karen Reynolds

RIM's Review of God is in the Equation by Adrienna Turner

God is in the Equation

by Adrienna Turner
Sometimes in life we all can use some help. We pray, talk to our friends, seek inspiration, and read either a book or a Bible. It is in those times that we look for something that speaks to us and in those times we realize we make the simple things difficult tasks that defeat our everyday thinking and living. When in actuality our situation is much more simple than we realized and in this book are steps to keep us going on this journey called life.

In this book the author hits you with quick steps that are just like the title says, an equation. Steps that we have all learned at some point in our school age so need not worry about your math skills. The steps are add, subtract, multiply and divide. Not only are the steps there but the reasoning an...d application also. And of course some thought provoking homework as to how the equation will be used in day to day activities and the long term progression of your life. Along with the simple math steps there are other helpful skills such as dream, study, figuring out the equation and completion.

This is not your average self help book, this is calling everyone that calls themselves a Christian to take note of what they are doing and in some cases not. The author is backed by her own personal knowledge, advice, nuggets of wisdom that she has learned from other profound teachers and leaders like Dr. Joyce Meyer and she also uses contextual scripture. This will help anyone looking for a better way to live their predestined life the way it was intended to be lived. Also help one find the love, peace, joy and the perseverance to keep on keeping on.

Rating 3 ½ stars
Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub
Review by Karen Reynolds

RIM's Review of King of the Game by KR Bankston

King of The Game by KR Bankston

Armani Proctor runs TMK, the Music Kingdom, records. He molds , manages, and replaces the best voices in the industry. However he is not to be played with. The music is more of an hobby, whereas the streets are his prime piece of realty. Where most people see a successful, handsome, hardworking businessman, some know him by another name that will make enemies blood run cold. As Armani tries to keep the music fresh, he has to find the balance in keeping his right hand from knowing what his left hand is doing. But soon he will realize that both worlds will collide and the casualties could cost him more than he is willing to pay.

Armani prides himself for his business sense but has not been lucky in love. However his work throws him a great opportunity when ...he meets writer Sydney Hollingsworth. As Armani pursues her, Sydney is faced with career and personal issues. Her childhood experiences have trained her heart not to trust or let anyone close to her because once they get close they will only leave her. Unfortunately for them if Armani's true life comes to light it will destroy them both.

Armani's secret is mostly safe except for Sydney's mother, Cassandra. She might be a junkie and a prostitute but she knows the truth. When she plans to disrupt Sydney and Armani's perfect life, Armani does what any man in his position would do, he takes care of the issue.

As the other characters lives intermingle in the love story, one thing remains true; Armani is the King of the Game and no one plays it better. Life, love and business are all gambles but those who take no risk have no gains.

Review for Readers In Motion Bookclub
Review by Karen Reynolds
Ratings: 5*****