Friday 27 April 2018

Book Donations to Newfane Public Library, New York



On 16th April 2018, I donated six of my paperback publications to Newfane Public Library, New York via my Author friend Kelly Artieri who was recently appointed Director/Vice President of the Library.

Here is the acknowledgement letter:
April 24, 2018

"Dear Brenda,
On behalf of the Newfane Library Board of Trustees, I would like to thank you for the very generous donation of six of your books to our Book Fair.
We are very excited for the opportunity to add them to our Library.
We are a small rural library, but we consistently strive to bring great programs to our community.
Your books will be featured alongside the other authors who were featured in our Local Literature Event.
Though you could not join us in person, the addition of your books allows you to be there with your words.
We might be a small library, but we have big ideas!
It is never a bad day when you can put authors and readers together.
Thank you again for your generosity."

Kelly Artieri
Vice President
Newfane Public Library"



Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka was a winner of an award for best science fiction in Metamorph's Publishing Summer Indie Book Awards 2016.
The book received a five-star review from Readers Favorite in 2017 and is a contender for awards in the Author Academy Awards 2018 in the science fiction category.



How to Write for Success is a self- help book for aspiring authors.
The book also received a five=star review from Readers Favorite in 2018.


Your Time is Now: A Time to be Born and a Time to Die is a spiritual non-fiction memoir.
The book is the recipient of the IHIBRP 5 Star Recommended Read Award Badge.


My Life as a Banker" A Life Worth Living was a winner in the Metamorph's Publishing Summer Indie Book Awards 2016.


Retirement is Fun was a nominee in the Metamorph's Publishing Summer Indie Book Awards 2016.


Memoirs of Dr. Andrew M. Khan is the memoir of a trailblazer in Education in Trinidad and Tobago.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brenda Mohammed was a Bank Manager who loved her job helping commercial businesses with loans and overdrafts for start-ups and expansions.
It was most rewarding for her to see vibrant businesses spring up and improve the economy of the island of Trinidad where she lives.
After her retirement, she ventured into the unfamiliar territory of Insurance Underwriting.
She was required to write several examinations which she passed with flying colours.
After six years, she was awarded Life membership in the Million Dollar Round Table, a Premier Association for Financial Professionals.
A diagnosis of cancer changed her career aspirations and she is now happy to be a writer.
To date, she has published eighteen books.
Her first book published was "I am Cancer Free. – A Memoir."
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Friday 20 April 2018

Someone is planning revenge and is breeding zombies




Want to read more?
Revenge of Zeeka 5 Book Series
The first book is FREE.
The other four are only 0.99 cents each.
Get them at Amazon Universal Link. CLICK HERE

On the island of Gosh in Jan 2036, Raynor is awakened by the sound of robot-like creatures on the beach overlooking his villa.
Was he dreaming or was it a vision?
Raynor is a hospital doctor.
The woman he secretly loves is engaged to another man and is sleeping in the next room.
Why is she there?Everything seems hazy to Raynor until he receives a phone call from the hospital's Chief of staff to attend an urgent meeting.
But who is Number Nine?
He says he is a zombie but is he?
He seemed harmless until he said that his Master is Zeeka, he has fifty brothers who look like him, and Zeeka wants revenge.
Why does Zeeka want revenge?
One man knows Zeeka's secrets, but can he stop the bloodshed and save the Islanders in time?
For answers to these questions, you must continue reading each of the books in the mind-blowing series.
Revenge of Zeeka: Zeeka and the Zombies, Book 1, is the engaging introduction to the science fiction series Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka, which consists of five books.
Zeeka and the Zombies Book I, Zeeka's Child Book 2, Zeeka Returns Book 3, Zeeka's Ghost Book 4, and Resurrection Book 5.

Review:

An intriguing start of a promising series.
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
This is a story about a mad scientist who got really mad.
Brenda Mohammed shows us the first consequences of his madness in this clever story about a virus outbreak leading to an emergence of strange zombie-like people. T
The fast pace and amount of action keep this story thrilling.
At the same time, the author manages to give us a glimpse of the main characters' feelings that do not concern the zombies directly.
We can observe a young doctor planning her marriage and her admirer's disappointment.
This seems to be a plot within the main plot, and it makes this story more complex, the characters easier to relate to, which is not easy to achieve in such a short story that is packed with action.
Yet there is a final twist that reveals to us that personal lives of the main protagonists may be infected by Zeeka's influence more than it seems at first glance.
I can even imagine this book as a good movie.

Friday 13 April 2018

PRICE SLASH FOR REVENGE OF ZEEKA BOOK SERIES



#ScienceFictionLovers #priceslash
Prices have been slashed.
First book FREE.
Four other books in the series for .99 cents each.
Get the Five book series for only $3.96 on Amazon CLICK HERE
Books available at Amazon Universal Link CLICK HERE and Draft2Digital CLICK HERE.

The Master Book, ZEEKA CHRONICLES has been reduced from $4.99 to $3.99

Enjoy!



Tuesday 10 April 2018

Best Books I have read in 2018


My Review
Paradise Boundby Rafaele Desire is an amazing story of a young woman doctor torn between three lovers - a pilot, an artist, and an actor.
It was a difficult choice for her.
This book held my interest throughout because I have been to many of the places the author wrote about.
I visited Paris, Los Angeles, New York, the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Hollywood, and sat on Malibu Beach, etc.
I also live on a small Caribbean island.
This book written by Author Rafaele Desire brought back so many memories.
The author’s vivid descriptions of the places Natalie lived and frequented kept me reading, and turning the pages.
This is a new author waiting to be discovered.
I loved this story and recommend it to all.
About the Author
Born in Paris to a French literature teacher and a physician, Rafaele Desire was raised in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. An artistic child who loved reading above all, she chose science over literature when she moved back to France to become an orthodontist, and soon afterward, a trip to the United States radically changed her life. She studied fine arts at Otis/Parsons, film production at NYU, and tried her hand at acting and graphic design. Rafaele Desire is a painter, writer, Tai Chi instructor, and she practices orthodontics in Los Angeles where she lives with her two amazing daughters. Paradise Bound is her first novel.


Review
A Love Relentless by Ju Ephraime is a fascinating account of a love affair in Alaska.
ByBrenchrison March 7, 2018
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
I am happy that I came across A LOVE RELENTLESS written by Author Ju Ephraim.
I always wondered about life in Alaska and this book taught me all about that.
This was a fascinating and intriguing account of two lovers.
Liz left her village and learned to live independently after a failed arranged marriage.
She returned after a few years to decide if she should accept her deceased Aunt Edna’s gift of the expansive homestead.
Rohan was looking to purchase the property.
Their coincidental meeting because of Liz’s inheritance from her Aunt Edna brought them together in spite of Liz’s attempts to resist him.
The author related the story in a way that kept me turning the pages.
I could not put it down.
I loved it and recommend to all lovers of romance novels.

About the Author

Ju Ephraime writes steamy high heat romances, packed with emotions and strong alpha characters and always a wonderful, happy ever after. She has won several awards for her writing and had even seconded in Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, with her White Magic Woman. When not writing romance novels, Ju could be found writing children’s books, which includes her, Too-Clever series, a collection of ten children stories. Ju writes her children's stories under, Dr. Julia E. Antoine. These days she stays busy helping in the community and donating her services to a not-for-profit organization, which she helped establish. Presently, she resides in CT where she has lived with her family for the past thirty years. She still misses her time on the sunny Caribbean islands but takes pleasure in using them as backdrops to some of her stories.


Review
A Long and Winding Road is an amazing story of love and bravery.
It is a story of the love for one's parents when they can no longer care for themselves.
It is also a story of bravery by two loving people who proceed on a seven-week trip on a forty foot motorhome taking along their ailing parents.
Of course, there were problems and chaos, but none bigger than the love shared by those four people.
The author did a beautiful portrayal of the trip and added some much-needed humour.
The book was never boring.
I recommend it to all.

About the Author

After 15 years as a family caregiver, Linda Brendle began writing to encourage, inspire and amuse other caregivers.
She loves to travel and, since retiring, she has traveled mostly by motorcycle and RV. She and her husband live in a small East Texas town where she enjoys gardening, writing and taking an active part in her church.



Thursday 5 April 2018

THe Long Lost Future by Author Ian Cattell


The Long Lost Future
Randall didn't know he had a destiny until it interrupted his lunch one day; and it was bigger than he could possibly have imagined (his destiny, not his lunch).
That's when he met the mysterious Marcus Han - brainier than a clumsy butcher's floor, and secretly the richest man in the world, he would be Randall's companion and mentor through the challenges they must face in their struggle to stop the entire Galaxy from vanishing.
With a supporting cast of talking trees, mutant psychics, bungling cops, extremely refined resistance operatives, military trained birds, enlightened mushrooms, hallucinating AI units, cutlery collecting crabs, and his definitely EX-girlfriend to help him, he must travel back in time to the twenty-first century and begin again in a new, less tyrannical timeline.
If his departed dad, the World Police, the Planimals, or the ancient aliens don’t stop him first that is…

About the Author
Ian Cattell is a software developer who wanted a change from staring blankly at a computer screen all day. So he decided to write a book. Yeah, I know... Over the next six, months he learned that there are many advantages to writing a book compared to writing software, the main one being that he doesn't have to re-write it whenever Microsoft decides it's "time". He enjoys astronomy, baking organic bread, and trying to figure out why some people insist on using Macs - but when his neighbour is out he likes to play his drums. He's got a Roland TD-11KV with the extra CY-12 Crash cymbal and double kick pedals, he runs it through a 150W Mosfet PA amp via a BOSS... Oh... your eyes have glazed over... never mind.
The Long Lost Future is available on Amazon.

Tuesday 3 April 2018

What a great Compliment for Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka

Have you heard of M. Night Shyamalan?
Born Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan
6 August 1970 (age 47)
Mahé, Puducherry, India
Residence Willistown, Pennsylvania, US
Citizenship United States[1]
Alma mater Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Occupation Director, screenwriter, author, producer, actor
Years active 1992–present
Hometown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spouse(s) Bhavna Vaswani (m. 1993)
Children 3
Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan[1][a] (/ˈʃɑːməlɑːn/;[2] born 6 August 1970)[3] is an American film director, screenwriter, author, producer and actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots and surprise endings. He was born in Puducherry, India and raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. His most well-received films include the supernatural horror thriller The Sixth Sense (1999), the superhero thriller Unbreakable (2000), the science fiction horror Signs (2002), and the historical drama-horror film The Village (2004). For The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Afterward, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received but sometimes financially successful movies, including, the dark fantasy film Lady in the Water (2006), the horror thriller film The Happening (2008), the film adaptation of The Last Airbender (2010), and the science-fiction film After Earth (2013). Following the financial failure of After Earth, Shyalaman's career was revived with the release of the found footage horror The Visit (2015) and the psychological horror Split (2016), the latter of which is set in the same universe as his previous film Unbreakable. He was a producer for Devil (2010) and was instrumental in the creation of the Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines.
Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. Most of his commercially successful films were co-produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2008, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.[4]

Why am I telling my readers this?
Because I received a review for Zeeka Chronicles: Revenge of Zeeka comparing me to M. Night Shyamalan.

"Fantastic
2 April 2018
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
This was a strange read. Brenda Mohammed writes unlike anybody else I've read. She is such an incredible gift to this genre and is a great introduction if this isn't your usual brand of reading. The characterization is spot on, even though the material is very futuristic, I still found myself recognising the flaws. There were moments that reminded me of the work of M Night Shyamalan and that's what Mohammed does well - she creates stories that are easy to visualize. Fantastic. Definitely recommended."
Book available on Amazon Universal Link and Draft2Digital.

Tuesday 27 March 2018

Brain to Books Cyber Convention - Horror Thriller Face-off

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REVENGE OF ZEEKA: HORROR TRILOGY


Revenge of Zeeka: Horror Trilogy is a collection of three spine-chilling tales of Blood, Mayhem, and Horror in the Revenge of Zeeka Series.
It is available on Amazon Universal Link and Books 2 Read Universal Link.
In an era of advanced technology and medical advancement, why does Zeeka want revenge?
Who is this vengeful man called Zeeka?
Why does he want to unleash terror on the Islanders?
Can the authorities stop him and his zombies, or is Zeeka unstoppable?
The plot thickens.
This man has a son, but who is he?
One man knows his secrets, but will he expose him, or is he too scared to do so because of Zeeka's threats to his life and family?
Who is the mysterious Number Nine?
Many questions baffle your mind when reading this book.
Are there answers?
Secrets, betrayal, lies, skeletons in closets, kidnapping, murder, arson, corruption in the police force, and suicide all form part of the plot.
Will good triumph over evil?



1- Describe your main character in one or two sentences.

Zeeka is the villain you would love to hate.


2- Which one word would you use to describe your antagonist?
Now, which word would your antagonist use to describe themselves?

I would describe the antagonist as Vengeful.

The antagonist would describe himself as a Genius.

3- What’s the worst thing your main character has done?

Zeeka kidnapped a seven-year-old boy whom he believed was his son with his former lover who jilted him.
He told him if he tried to leave he would kill him and his family.
He educated him and the boy grew up to be a science genius and the best in the medical field in the small island of Gosh.
Using threats of violence he manipulated the doctor to create a serum to bring back dead babies to life for evil purposes.
He raised the babies in a lab and brought them up to be Zombies.
His plan was to use the zombies for vengeance for something that was long forgotten, and he did so.


4- What is the most prized possession of your antagonist? And why?

Zeeka's most prized possessions are his fifty-one mechanical zombies and nine flesh-eating zombies.
He uses the zombies to unleash terror on the citizens in the island of Gosh.

5- What is the one part of your book that you, as the author, like best?

I like Part 3 - Zeeka Returns where Zeeka meets Miranda, the robot, who overpowers him and apprehends him.
Here is what a reviewer said:"My favorite character was Miranda, the perfect woman.
She is a result of very advanced technology, just as all the zombies in these books are.
Her appearance in the third book makes me more hopeful about human progress.
While the story of zombies points out the potential misuse of science, Miranda shows its positive side, which is only good for the overall balance in my opinion." [Amazon Reviewer]



The trilogy is available as three separate books and each can stand on its own.
Zeeka and the Zombies: Revenge of Zeeka Book 1
Zeeka's Child: Revenge of Zeeka Book 2
Zeeka Returns: Revenge of Zeeka Book 3
They are available at Amazon Universal Link and Draft2Digital.

The first book in the series, Revenge of Zeeka: Zeeka and the Zombies is FREE on Amazon Universal Link.
Read a review from an Amazon Reviewer:
"An intriguing start of a promising series.
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
This is a story about a mad scientist who got really mad.
We do not learn about him and his motives much in this book since it's just the first part of the series.
Yet Brenda Mohammed shows us the first consequences of his madness in this clever story about a virus outbreak leading to an emergence of strange zombie-like people.
The fast pace and amount of action keep this story thrilling.
At the same time, the author manages to give us a glimpse of the main characters' feelings that do not concern the zombies directly.
We can observe a young doctor planning her marriage and her admirer's disappointment.
This seems to be a plot within the main plot, and it makes this story more complex, the characters easier to relate to, which is not easy to achieve in such a short story that is packed with action.
Yet there is a final twist that reveals to us that personal lives of the main protagonists may be infected by Zeeka's influence more than it seems at first glance.
This book leaves many questions unanswered and makes me look forward to reading the sequels.
I can even imagine this book as a good movie."

Read a five-star review from Readers Favorite.
Reviewed by Faridah Nassozi for Readers' Favorite
Five Stars

In Revenge of Zeeka by Brenda Mohammed, the island of Gosh is under attack by an army of zombies under the command of a vengeful science genius. In the year 2016, the Zika virus broke out in Central and South America with life-threatening effects for pregnant women.
Given a choice to save the mothers or the unborn babies, a decision was made to save the mothers.
The tiny stillborns were securely and secretly buried.
Only a few people knew of this.
Unknown to everyone, however, a certain scientist managed to get hold of all 51 bodies, bring them back to life, and condition them to follow his command, creating himself a perfect army of zombies.
Now, twenty years later, the evil scientist seeks revenge on those he holds responsible for the stillbirths.
Only three of the current doctors at Central Hospital - Raynor, Mark, and George - witnessed the unfortunate events of 2016.
The three have strong suspicions about who might be controlling the zombies. Meanwhile, Zeeka is lying in wait for the perfect time to unleash his army onto the island. Zeeka has big, evil plans and this is just the beginning. In a desperate search for answers, and with very little to go on, the doctors search for the elusive Master Zeeka.
Will they save the islanders from Zeeka and his zombies, or will it be too late?
Revenge of Zeeka, by Brenda Mohammed, is a one of a kind novella trilogy that delivers an incredible story guaranteed to give readers an absolute sci-fi treat.
I especially liked how Brenda used current events as the pivotal point from which to build this amazing sci-fi horror.
This made the story even more relatable.
More importantly, however, I admired how she owned her story and created this captivating version of events.
She captured with an amazing depth the setting, characters, plot, and emotions in such few words.
If you are looking for a thrilling short read, this fast-paced, sci-fi action novella will give you the time of your life.

Click on this Link to read an excerpt from the book.


Here are the event links for the Brain to Books Cyber Convention:

Cover Wars

Character Tournaments

Trade Show

Panel Discussion

Book Trailers

Book Expo

Story Time

Just Read

Daisy Chain

Enjoy the Convention from the comfort of your home.