Divas, Inc.

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Three women--Tiffany Lane, Chantel Hollis, and Margaret Dre--have been friends since elementary school. Tiffany and Chantel are true divas, and Margaret has always been the plain, unsophisticated one. Even on her job as the assistant editor at a university press, Margaret has been unassuming and never challenged to her full potential. Her mother and grandmother also disregard her feelings and speak at her instead of to her. When Tiffany and Chantel decide to take an extended vacation in Europe, rather than invite Margaret to join them, they ask her to house-sit and watch Tiffany's dog. In spite of her hurt feelings, Margaret decides to take advantage of the situation. She experiences her friends' lives by living in their apartments, dating their men, wearing their designer clothes, and waltzing through their wonderful lifestyles. After many mishaps, Margaret learns that being a diva is within every woman, and the real requirement for membership in the club is belief in one's own self-worth. Another Hill winner! Lillian Lewis
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Book Description
Diva (n.): an extremely arrogant or temperamental woman.

Delicious Diva Tip #13: When in doubt, just do it anyway.

Tiffany Lane and Chantal Hollis are bonafide divas-in every sense of the word. They've also been Margaret Drew's best friends since they were children. Margaret has always been the plain Jane of the threesome, living vicariously through the exploits of her friends. But when Tiffany and Chantal head to Europe on an extended vacation, leaving Margaret to tend their apartments, Margaret decides to see how the other half lives. Co-opting their apartments, their boyfriends (current and past), their fabulous lifestyles and Tiffany's very savvy pooch, Virginia, Margaret finally feels like she has found the life she has always wanted and deserved. But her double living begins to catch up with her and Margaret might soon be homeless, manless, and friendless all in one swoop.



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Praise for In My Bedroom:

"The makings of a made-for-television movie."
- Publishers Weekly

"Reading it was a pure delight."
- Mary Monroe

"Amazing."
- Kimberla Lawson Roby

Praise for An Ordinary Woman:

"Provocative and audacious. . .engaging, fast-paced."
- Lolita Files

"Dramatic."
- Karen E. Quinones Miller



About the Author
Donna Hill has twenty published novels to her credit. She is a public relations associate for the Queens Borough Public Library system and runs a promotions and management company, ImageNouveau. She is also a writing instructor at the Frederick Douglass Creative Art Center in New York. Donna lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.



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Hill (An Ordinary Woman, 2002, etc.) skips the earnest inner-city dramas this time around and has a little fun-but just a little. Even in elementary school, plain and bookish Maggie Drew never understood why all the boys would do anything for her flirty little friends Tiffany and Chantel. Their charmed lives only got better once the trio were all grown up. Her childhood friends effortlessly acquired fabulous jobs, expensive cars, condos and townhouses, wardrobes to die for. What, Maggie wonders, is the secret of their success? And why are they known as capital-D Divas? When Tiffany and Chantel leave New York for an extended vacation, Maggie agrees to step into their shoes and in effect becomes each of them in turn. All of a sudden, men notice her, even though she's an ordinary, overweight, 30-ish woman who wears glasses and bites her nails to the quick. Reading their diaries and browsing through their computer files provides some clues. Tiffany and Chantel belong to an international club, Divas, Inc., for women who want only the best. Maybe she's imagining it, but the founder's Web-site picture looks kind of like Maggie's nutty grandma. But our heroine has other things to worry about, like the extra boyfriends she's suddenly acquired. Hey, could she be a Diva at heart?Squeaky-clean and wholesome, without a hint of sex, sass, or flava.


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