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This is a multi-chapter promo of the full novel. Free three day download May 31st, June1st and June 2nd.Most people recognize the face, if not the name. That apple cheeked, rich brown face with the inviting smile that adorns baking products worldwide. Older movie goers fondly recall her role as the friendly, wise cracking maid in over one hundred films. But to her family and spurned lovers, the tongue of Honi Hawkins was brutally uncompromising and anything but funny, as she strove to become THE QUEEN OF COMEDY.The Queen of Comedy tells the generational tale of three strong women defying the odds to become ground breaking entertainers, as witnessed by the one man who knows them all and whose own fame is overshadowed by theirs. During his lifetime David Latimore found work in the 1940's musicals of Hollywood due to the fame of his comedic aunt. He penned top ten R&B hits for his wife, who's dubbed the colored Sandra Dee, and sees his career resurrected when his only child is nominated for an Oscar after taking a highly controversial part.But his stand-up comic career pales in comparison to the matriarch of his family, Honi Hawkins, a woman whose fame and longevity have made her a cultural icon. David knows the real woman, not the lovable, grinning maid created by the studio system, but the lonely and sometimes vengeful aunt who soon realized fame came at a high cost, and that comedy during segregation was anything but funny.