07/13/2015 @ 6 pm ReShonda Tate Billingsley comes to Big Blue Marble Bookstore

Best-selling novelist ReShonda Tate Billingsley visits Philadelphia on tour for her newest novel “Mama’s Boy,” a ripped-from-the-headlines family drama set amid racial tensions between white police officers and Black youth in Jasper, Texas.

Bio

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is an award-winning and national best-selling author and journalist. She has written 35 books including fiction, nonfiction, and YA fiction. Her second novel,” Let the Church Say Amen,” is coming to BET on August 30, 2015, directed by actress Regina King, produced by Queen Latifah’s Flava Unit, Royal Ties Productions and Bobcatt Films. “The Devil is a Lie” and” The Secret She Kept” will be coming to the screen in Fall 2016 on TV One.

Billingsley has also been a television reporter/anchor for NBC affiliate KFOR in Oklahoma City and Fox affiliate KRIV in Houston, Texas. A former reporter for The National Enquirer, she is also the co-founder of BrownGirlsPublishing.com, a boutique publishing company. A highly sought-after motivational speaker, she also appeared in the stage play Marriage Material by Je’Caryous Johnson and makes a small appearance in “Let the Church Say Amen.” She is also a graduate of the University of Texas and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and Jack and Jill of America.