Posts on books I’ve written or recommend.
You may have noticed more activity online and suddenly everyone is live streaming and planning virtual events and you are still silent and unsure of whether there is room for you. There is. I believe that we are each called to reach a certain group of people or an individual. For me, I choose to …
My kindle loves a good free book. Does yours? My romance novel Love’s Sweet Joy, which is set on the island of Montserrat and introduces the four entrepreneurial women in the Return to Love series, is available this weekend for free. Tragedy tore them apart and now a new crisis is bringing Monique Sinclair face …
My favourite children’s author and a dear friend Carol Ottley-Mitchell reads one of her amazing books for your enjoyment and your children’s. I enjoyed listening to her tell the story of a little boy named Saulo who has a dream of dancing masquerade one day. Carol shares a bit of the history of the masquerade …
Listen to The Masquerade Dance By Carol Ottley-Mitchell Read More »
Thanks to all of you reaching out about wanting to take the challenge. It’s easy. Go to www.nanowrimo.org and set up your profile and create your writing project and word count goal. You can find my profile here…send me a buddy request —> https://nanowrimo.org/participants/trulynerissa/ If you need additional coaching to stay on task…my offer of …
November is National Novel Writing Month. It is a great time to set yourself an audacious challenge and complete that novel or book you’ve stopped and started too many times to count. There are great tools and resources at https://nanowrimo.org/ to help you reach your goal and I strongly recommend you use them no matter …
My 2019 is off to a great reading start. I had asked for Amazon gift cards as my Christmas gifts and my sweet friends and daughter met my request. So first lesson of 2019 is to ASK for what you want! So what else is there to get with amazon gift cards but books. I …
I took Truly Caribbean’s Woman’s Guide to Good Love off the sales list back in 2016 although you will see it on offer on Amazon. I am not allowed to remove it completely. I keep meaning to update it but haven’t. Why did I do that? It reflects a time in my life which was …
This is the third year I am doing the GoodReads Book Challenge. My goal is 100 books. Can be a bit tricky when I am also writing but we will see how I do. This is the 2nd book I’m reading for the year, the first was Gabriel Union’s We’re Gonna Need More Wine. Summary …
In Plain Sight is a departure from book one in the Return to Love series but how else could I tell Dane’s story without making sure he got to put all of his special forces and police training to good use. I also tackle a very serious topic in the book. Human trafficking is not …
In Plain Sight Tackles Human Trafficking in the Caribbean Read More »
We connected ironically because we have the same first name, a few mutual friends and our Caribbean heritage. But what I love about Nerissa Street is her practical take on life and her determination to teach others to Be Your Own Answer. This reminded me of my Be Your Own Hero mantra. Neri (that’s my …