Lolita Files
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Lolita Files is the author of the bestselling Child of God, which has been optioned as a feature film by Kanye West. Files has a degree in broadcast journalism and lives outside of Los Angeles, where she is currently developing projects for television and film.

Listen to an Interview of Lotita Files Interviewed by Lee E. Meadows on Detroit's WPON's "Book Beat" Radio Program 2/4/99   sex.lies.murder.fame. Click to order via Amazon Hardcover: 368 pages ISBN-10: 0060786809 Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches Gifted with rock star looks and a genius IQ, Penn Hamilton has been inspiring awe since he was a baby. Now he's ready to take on the world and claim his rightful place in the midst of celebrity. As a Writer. Rapper. Model. God. Unfortunately, the world's not quite ready for him. But when Penn meets Beryl Unger, high-powered editrix to literati and glitterati alike, sparks fly. Sparks fly even higher when he meets one of Beryl's authors, superstar romance author Sharlyn Tate. Two women, one man. A man with no boundaries, who will stop short of nothing�even brutal, vicious murder�to have the success and adulation he so desperately desires.   You Only Get Better: The Perfect Life \ Three For The Road \ This Time Around Click to order via Amazon by Connie Briscoe (Author), Lolita Files (Author), Anita Bunkley (Author) Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Harlequin (March 1, 2007) Format: Paperback, 320pp ISBN-10: 0373830599 Read an Excerpt Three fascinating women discover that life, love and everything else gets better with age! Teacher Maxine Davis's life is careening out of control�her marriage is dull, her teenage daughters are driving her insane and she is days away from her fiftieth birthday. New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe spins a compelling story of betrayal, forgiveness and redemption in "The Perfect Life," as Maxine discovers the glamorous life she's always coveted may be less satisfying than the "good" life she's been living. A nasty divorce and the tragic events of 9/11 help an empty nester see beyond the narrow confines of her materialistic existence. In "Three for the Road," Essence and Blackboard bestselling author Lolita Files takes readers on a breathtaking road trip to self-discovery with Lillibelle Goldman, as she meets an unlikely kindred spirit who may hold the key to her second chance for happiness. In "This Time Around," by bestselling author Anita Bunkley, a successful career woman proves that life doesn't end at forty. At forty-nine, Anika Redmond has just received an extreme makeover and is looking good. With her hot body and power job in place, learn if she gets the one thing in life that still eludes her�a happy ending . . .

Tastes Like Chicken: A Novel
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ISBN: 0743245253
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Pub. Date: May 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

It's the return of the sistahs! Tastes Like Chicken is Lolita Files's much anticipated continuing story of the lives of Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, the dynamic heroines of the bestselling novels Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part. With steamy thrills and disastrous infidelities, Lolita's latest is a tale of two women who find themselves poised at life's crossroads with everything to lose but their friendship. What's a girl to do when she finds out her man's been feeding her lies? When readers last saw them, Misty had just married her dream man, Rick Hodges, and was off on a fabulous honeymoon. On an equally hopeful note, a pregnant and newly engaged Reesy was riding off into the sunset with her fiance -- reformed ladies' man Dandre Hilliard. But it isn't long before the men start misbehaving again, and in Tastes Like Chicken, they get what's coming to them.

 

Title:  Getting to the Good Part
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Author:  Lolita Files
Format: Hardcover, 335pp.
ISBN: 0446524204
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date: January 1999

barnesandnoble.com customer review:

"Lolita Files 'Getting to The Good Part' is Phenominal
First of all I'd like to take my hat off to this refreshing author Lolita Files.The characters of her second novel. Are twice as stimulating as they were in 'Scenes From A Sistah'. Because through Lolita's characters demostrate many struggles that all of the true sister girls deal with. Plus she throws a little Maxwell in just the right chapters. To spice things up for Reesey when she get's into her little funks. Lolita has a way of melting Fiction along with much reality with her visions, in her storylines. She's also a dear friend of mine and I wish her all best!!!"

From Publisher's Weekly: 
Files's attempt at a Waiting to Exhale is an amusingly superficial but mainly unrealistic sequel to her first book, Scenes from a Sistah, about the same couple of flawlessly beautiful good-time "ghetto" girls living it up in New York City. "Corporate bigwig" Misty Fine has become romantically involved with and ultimately engaged to her boss, Rick, leaving her best "sistah," dancer Reesy Snowden, resentful and wondering what she wants for her own life. Reesy lands the lead in Black Barry's Pie, an off-Broadway musical, and her fantastically successful stage career is launched. Reesy's narration leans heavily on urban slang, which becomes tiresome. Her escapades are entertaining, though outrageously inconceivable, as she hops from one fine lover to another (apparently heedless of AIDS), receives the gift of a Porsche from a boyfriend and even drunkenly flirts with Wesley Snipes--who just happens to be eating at the same restaurant. Reesy's relentlessly silly chatter reveals her as little more than shallow and mean-spirited: though Misty "was always complaining that she didn't have the high, round sistah booty I'd been strapped with, it apparently never stopped her from getting any play." The result is a perfunctory performance clearly angling for the movies. Author tour. (Jan.)

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Title:  Scenes from a Sistah
Publisher:  Warner Books, Incorporated
Date Published:  March 1997

From:  Warner Books
Serious, striving, upwardly mobile executive Misty Fine almost has it together. She manages millions of dollars in real estate and dazzling executive opportunities with knockout savvy - but hasn't quite figured out how to get the real deal from the men in her life. Her lifelong friend Reesy Snowden is brilliant, up-front - and anything but career-minded. To avoid her wealthy parents' overwhelming expectations, Reesy is perfectly happy careening between underwhelming jobs by day - and exotic dancing by night. In a very '90s world where success doesn't always mean security and Mr. Right is otherwise engaged - or worse - Misty and Reesy know they can always count on each other to tell the truth and "manage the damage" as only they can. But when Misty gets the promotion of a lifetime, and hires Reesy hoping to give her some career direction, neither one is ready for the consequences or their hidden conflicts. And each must decide for herself what they value most - even as they redefine their relationship and their lives in ways both unexpected and hilarious.
 

 

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