How to Write For Success Blog: When Life throws you a lemon, make lemonade

Friday, 16 June 2017

When Life throws you a lemon, make lemonade

Life is not always Wine and Roses.
When Life throws you a lemon, make Lemonade.
When one door closes, another opens.
In her memoir Retirement is Fun - A New Chapter, which is a sequel to her memoir My Life as a Banker - A Life Worth Living, Brenda describes her many wonderful experiences at the end of her banking career.

Her new job brought many opportunities to travel the world, have fun, and enjoy life.
She grasped opportunities as they fell in her path
Is your life over when you retire?
Brenda dispels that fear.
She proves that retirement is a time to enjoy life and earn too.
Despite facing many challenges such as cancer, deaths of loved ones, and an accident, which made her realize that life is very short, she triumphantly moves on to accomplish more.
Brenda increased her skills in areas she never thought possible.
Brenda has surely proven that when she retired from her first job she definitely did not retire from life.
For her, Retirement is indeed fun and she has written about her fun experiences in this personal memoir on Retirement.
Retirement is Fun: A new Chapter was a nominee in the Metamorph's Publishing Summer Indie Book Awards 2016 in the category Bio/Memoirs.
This is a book you would want to read.
Get it at AMAZON

For a Pictorial Travel Book of Travel Memories read Brenda's Travel Memoirs with Pictures: Exploring the World.

Travel Memoirs with Pictures: Exploring the World is a book filled with reflections of the author's travels around the world.
She relates the family adventures and treats readers to a pictorial travel book of priceless memories.
She describes places visited and the wonderful times she and her family had in their tourist trips, not only in words but with an amazing photo collection.
The book is great to read while on a vacation or for some travel inspiration,
Buy it at Amazon

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HUMMING BIRD MAGAZINE ISSUE II

HUMMING BIRD II is an annual magazine containing Literary news from the International Chamber of Writers and Artists [CIESART] – Trinidad and Tobago, with official Headquarters in Spain. In the contents, you will find exquisite poetry, articles, anthology news, information on books to read, interviews, culture news, book giveaways, and the Chamber’s efforts at promoting arts and literature in Trinidad and Tobago. Features of the magazine are two special interviews. One is of a great humanitarian, Trinidad-born Dr.Farley Cleghorn of Washington, USA, and the other is of an international poet, Fibby Bob Kinney. This is a one-of-a-kind magazine. Get a copy for your home library.

Romance three-book Series

In this Romance three book series, romance lovers are treated to eighteen unusual, intriguing, suspenseful, and alluring romance stories, intermingled with crime, unhappy marriages, and all the trials and tribulations of love, These stories are written by Trinidadian Author Brenda Mohammed, and some are set on the island of Trinidad and Tobago. STORIES PEOPLE LOVE won two gold awards in Connection Emagazine Readers’ Choice Awards 2019 in romance fiction. HEARTWARMING TALES –A reviewer said that this book contains, Unique stories assuring amusement “ STORIES THAT INTRIGUE – This book received a five-star review from Readers Favorite International.

Four- book Memoir Series

The Four-Book Memoir Series written by Trinidadian Author Brenda Mohammed is set in Trinidad and Tobago. The first book, MY LIFE AS A BANKER, starts with the author's early life and childhood, leading up to her first job which was banking. After a successful banking career spanning several years, Brenda was promoted to a senior managerial position. In her memoir, RETIREMENT IS FUN, which is a sequel to My Life as a Banker - A Life Worth Living, Brenda describes her many wonderful experiences at the end of her banking career. Reluctant to move on from banking, she amazes herself when she turned down an offer to work in a higher position at another bank. She chose Insurance instead, and for her, it turned out to be the better choice. Of course, life is not a bed of roses, and in the book I AM CANCER FREE, you will read how Brenda stands out as a beacon of light throughout every challenge she faces. In her pictorial travel book of priceless memories, TRAVEL MEMOIRS WITH PICTURES, she describes countries visited, and the wonderful times she and her family had on their tourist trips. Lovers of Memoirs will love these books.

Barry Holmes Mysteries: Three book Series

Young adults will love BARRY HOLMES MYSTERIES with three thrilling and exciting tales of kidnapping, and mysterious disappearances. The stories are interspersed with clean romantic scenes to delight you. The books written by Trinidadian Author Brenda Mohammed are set on the beautiful islands of Trinidad and Tobago. In three mind-blowing episodes, the author weaved the first story, THE GIFT OF LOVE, to introduce Barry as an amateur detective. In THE AXE MURDERER, which is well written in the author's humourous style, Barry faced many obstacles to identifying the real perpetrator, as there were others who fit the profile. Readers are taken on a rollercoaster ride to capture the real culprit. The end is surprising. WHAT HAPPENED TO MARY LOO, revolves around the bizarre disappearance of a businessman's wife immediately after the lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic is lifted. Did she really disappear?

REVENGE OF ZEEKA FIVE BOOK SERIES

Revenge of Zeeka five book series is a futuristic horror mystery thriller series about zombies and their clever Mastermind Zeeka. .A zika virus outbreak is the start of the island's troubles. Twenty years later terror stalks the mystic island of Gosh. It’s the year 2036, and it’s a high-tech world. Dr. Raynor Sharpe had a vision of zombie-like men with small heads walking on the beach. Was he dreaming or was it a reality? The woman he secretly loves, Janet Jones, is engaged to another man and is sleeping in the next room.

HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS: THREE BOOK SERIES

Writing and Publishing a book is the dream of every new and aspiring author. Author Brenda Mohammed, who self-published 55 books, has created this series for just that purpose. HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS – VOLUME ONE, received a five-star review from Readers Favorite one month after it was published in December 2017. In August 2019, it topped all the books in the Non-Fiction category of Connections Emagazine Readers' Choice awards and won the gold medal in the category of non-fiction. It also placed second in all categories and won the silver medal. The merits of the book HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS were featured in a review in the Ethiopian Herald Sunday Edition on February 16th, 2020. HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS - VOLUME TWO written by Author Brenda Mohammed is meant to help new and aspiring authors fulfill their dream of writing a book. While Volume One focused on general aspects of writing for success, Volume Two is not only on publishing, and marketing, but on writing characters, writing for kids, memoirs, and fiction. SELF PUBLISHING TIPS is a simple writing and publishing guide for new and aspiring authors who want to be independent and learn the art of self-publishing. The book is useful for new, as well as seasoned writers. All three books should be in a writer’s library.