DRUNK FOR 27 YEARS, A TRUE-STORY ABOUT MOTHER OF TYRESE GIBSON

Fort Worth, TX (BlackNews.com) - Banks Entertainment, LLC is hosting the official launch of Author Cynthia Banks' latest book, Drunk for 27 years, on August 1, 2009 from 7:00-9:00 pm at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Ft. Worth, TX 76107. Everyone is invited to attend the event to meet and greet the author and the woman behind the story. Both will be signing books and speaking to the audience about writing the most impacting and encouraging book released this year touching the subject of alcoholism.

Drunk for 27 years is a true-story that depicts the heartache, pain, tragedy and trauma, Ms. Priscilla Murray-Gibson experienced through her alcohol addiction of 27 years. She is a celebrity mother of singer, actor, and model Tyrese Gibson. With the help of her children and the Alcoholics Anonymous Center in Hemet, CA, Priscilla was able to conquer her addiction and has been sober since September 23, 2006.

"God in Heaven, please hear my cry. I am an alcoholic and I have become just like my mother. If you deliver me from this alcoholic disease I promise I won't ever take another drink for the rest of my life. I want to live and not die." (Excerpt from Drunk for 27 years)

Banks Entertainment, LLC is producing the Drunk for 27 years Book Tour beginning Fall 2009. Banks Entertainment is a Special Event Planning & Talent Booking Agency Company based out of Fort Worth, TX. Banks Entertainment is also a national online printing company providing CD/DVD Duplication & Printing as well as the printing of fliers, posters, business cards and CD inserts. Visit www.thebanksentertainment.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ms. Banks is the Owner and Director of The Little Teapot Daycare Center, founded in Fort Worth, TX in 1993. She is an Accreditation Validator for the National Association of Family Childcare and a board member of Agape Kids, an organization that supports the needs and concerns of children of battered women. Drunk for 27 years is the second published book written by author Cynthia Banks. Her first book, Prayers of the Innocent, a true-story of fear and compassion, was released in Spring 2007. Ms. Banks is currently working on her third book, Broken Trust, detailing a high profile scheme filled with corruption in a Florida County Water and Sewer Department. www.authorcynthiabanks.com

Drunk for 27 years - ISBN# 9781438993140
Prayers of the Innocent - ISBN# 9781434308917

Drunk for 27 years will be available August 1, 2009, but Prayers of the Innocent can be purchased now in bookstores and online. Please visitwww.thebanksentertainment.com or www.authorcynthiabanks.com for more information.