stand up comedy – Wikkid.Sexy.Cool.

This is one woman’s story.

I really need to release my historicals (that also feature romance), so that’s what I’m fiddin’ to do 🙂

I enjoy writing love stories. But I also enjoy crafting historical fiction and Scifi featuring leads of color.

A historical romance that’s already been released on Amazon.com is JUKEBOX:

**JUKEBOX Volume One** – Midwest teens become America’s first interracial singing duo.

THIS EBOOK WILL BE RELEASED IN ~~FEBRUARY~~ MARCH:

Pictured: Stand up comedian/ film actress Honi Hawkins and her nephew, David Latimore, 1960s sit-com star and stand up comic.

The Queen of Comedy takes center stage — *The Queen of Comedy* takes center stage. Also pictured: David Latimore.

As a child star David Latimore had a winsome, bucktoothed grin and expressive, molasses brown eyes. His film debut was in a musical feature when he was seven, around 1941, just after World War II broke out. The tiny angel costume he wore looked more like a white nightgown with a bent coat hanger stuck up his back with feathers glued to it. The white sparkles they’d given him to toss around always made his nose itch. “Saints and Sinners” was a Vanguard studio rip-off of “Cabin in the Sky” and MGM’s “Green Pastures.” But “Saints and Sinners” proved to be such a money maker that a couple of songs from the film score had been top forty hits.

There was a time when black comedians were king. From Dick Gregory to Godfrey Cambridge, Jackie “Moms” Mabley, to Red Foxx, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, the realness and rawness of black comedy took many forms and faces. Whether the jokes touched upon social issues at the time (like inequality), or what it was like to grow up in a diverse neighborhood, the ability to make audiences laugh took a major leap forward during the 1960s.

The Queen of Comedy is about that time period and decades prior to the 1960s. The book was written before I created and released JUKEBOX Volume One. I plan on releasing TQOC shortly, and I’m working on promos for the novel. The story centers on a female comedian’s rise to fame during the late 1930s thru the 1950s, and the complicated relationship she has with a nephew who follows in her footsteps.