Works by
Michele Andrea Bowen
(Writer)

Church Folk (2001)
Theophilus Henry Simmons is young, single, sexy, and just about the finest black man any wishful mother and daughter have ever seen in Mississippi. He's also a pastor. And when the quiet, homespun Essie Lee Lane accepts his marriage proposal, a few of the church folk decide to teach Essie what it really means to be a pastors wife.

Second Sunday (2003)
In 1970s St. Louis, members of the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church prepare to celebrate its 100th year anniversary. However, with the unexpected death of its pastor, the church faces a terrible dilemma: finding a new pastor not only in time to prepare for the church centennial, but also in time to ensure the survival of the church itself! It seems as though everyone has a strong opinion about who the new pastor should be. Bowen weaves the hilarious stories of several church members as they plan, plot, and connive ways for their favorite candidate to win the pastorship. Will they be able to sort out their differences before the anniversary? God only knows......

Holy Ghost Corner (2006)
Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang's Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women's Boutique, is puzzled. She can't for the life of her figure out why even Baby Doll Henderson, despite her false teeth and her navy-blue-socks-with-yellow-jelly-sandals-wearing self, can find a man and she can't. Theresa's been looking all of her life and it seems like the only thing she finds are things that need to stay lost--like her on-and-off "friend" and sometime escort, the sneaky businessman, Reverend Parvell Sikes. So, when church mother Queen-Esther Green reacquaints Theresa with the older woman's backslidden-player nephew, Lamont Green, it seems like the same old story. But this time, Theresa decides to listen to God, and what she hears soon brings a smile to her face with the realization that the Holy Ghost has been in her love corner all along.