Brenda Mohammed from Trinidad and Tobago is a former Bank Manager who excelled in Banking.
Later in life, Brenda moved into Insurance where she also excelled. Besides passing the State Licenses examination for both Life and General Insurance, Brenda studied and obtained a Diploma as a Fellow in Life Underwriting from the American College, USA. [LUTCF]. Because of her consistent volume of high sales in Insurance, she qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table, the Premier Association for Financial Professionals, [MDRT] six times in a row, and attended MDRT Conferences in various parts of America, with thousands of financial professionals from all countries of the world.
After a near-death experience with cancer, she started writing and published 61 books in multiple genres. She recently wrote a five-series screenplay for her sci-fi thriller Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka and has submitted a pilot for consideration to relevant companies.
Brenda is a member of Stage 32, a forum connected to film, TV & digital creatives worldwide.
Brenda’s genres include memoirs, science fiction, romance, self-help, mystery thrillers, children’s books, psychological thrillers, Christian books, poetry, and poetry anthologies.
She won several literary awards in 45 countries - the USA, Peru, Kazakhstan, Seychelles, Nigeria, India, Romania, Argentina, Ukraine, Morocco, Philippines, Oman, Hong Kong, Portugal, Uruguay, Indonesia, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, Sri Lanka, Austria, Russia, Germany, Syria, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Chile, Egypt, Honduras, Mexico, Pakistan, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Ecuador, Bosnia, Japan, Greece, Trinidad and Tobago, and the UK.
Brenda also received several awards from CIESART Spain. In 2024 she was honoured with the PLATO AWARD The values highlighted by PLATO are Wisdom, Temperance, Courage, Justice, and more, and the Dante Alighieri Award for active cultural management
Reviewers have compared her futuristic novel, Zeeka Chronicles, to Frankenstein, Twilight Zone, and Shakespeare’s plays; some have said it is movie material. Brenda captured awards from Readers’ Favorite International, Author Academy Global Awards, and Readers’ Choice for this book.
Her memoir ‘I Am Cancer Free’ also won an award for Health and Fitness in Readers’ Favorite International Awards 2018.
Barry Holmes Mysteries, a mystery fiction also won several awards. The book received a five-star review from Readers' Favorite International in September 2021. For this book, Brenda won the Culture, Literature, and Research [CLR] Award in India for Best Writer- Fantasy. On World Book Day in April 2023, the book received a certificate of recognition from The International Chamber of Writers and Artists [CIESART], Spain. In May 2024, Barry Holmes Mysteries was a finalist in the Independent Author Awards 2024 hosted by Literary Global Awards.
Her fiction stories are filled with humour, mystery, and suspense with unexpected endings.
The memoirs of her Life as a Banker and her Travel Memoirs are delightful.
Brenda was recently inspired to write Christian books and to date, she has published nine of them. They are Chosen by the Creator, He is the One, Your Time is Now, True Power of Love, Highway to Joy Eternal, God–Fearing Ones, Serenity in End Times, Now is the Time to Prepare and Keys to Withstand Storms of Life.
She loves to share her knowledge and wrote three books on How to Write for Success, and Self-Publishing tips for new and aspiring authors. How to Write for Success received a five-star review from Readers Favorite one month after its publication 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. Brenda's romance novel, 'Stories People Love,' was the first-place winner in this contest and won the gold medal for placing first in all categories.
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.
She is an advocate for Peace, Suicide Prevention, and Against Domestic Violence.
Among her publications are two Peace Anthologies - Peace Begins with Us, and Creating a Better World, three Anthologies for Suicide Prevention titled A Spark of Hope I, II, and III, and two Anthologies, Break the Silence: Poems Against Domestic Violence, which were compiled from poems submitted by her Facebook Forum - How to Write for Success.
Brenda and her family have travelled extensively throughout the world.
She has conducted book signings and hosted Book Fairs in Trinidad and Tobago.
She is the Founder of the Facebook Forum, ‘How to Write for Success Literary Network,’ and National President for Trinidad and Tobago for:
1. International Chamber of Writers and Artists [CIESART] - Spain,
2. Unión Hispanomundial de Escritores - Peru.
3. The Global Federation of Leadership and High Intelligence A.C. - Mexico.
She is also a Peace Ambassador for the Iqra Foundation of India.
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