Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm
“It’s difficult to classify myself solely as a writer of romance, when in fact writing about women’s lives, and the complexities that has gone into making her that woman, entails a great deal more than romance.”
Next Book Out September 24th 2020
Love Again
Runner up in the Saga Literary Prize
Swimming with Fishes
There were two birthday girls 🎂🎉🥳🎂🎉🥳🍷happy birthday #shawnamartin11 - I know you enjoyed yourself. Sending you blessings for more health, more love, more life & more success.
#birthday #birthdaygirls #godscreation #enjoylife #craigandshaunmcanuff #originalflava
This year alone I have lost three friends, their life in this realm completed as they join the ancestors.
So I’m sharing Celebrating my big sis birthday, as I treat her to #originalflava, Craig & Shaun McAnuff’s two course Caribbean cuisine & endless rum punch all night long 😊
We danced all night, knowing how short life really is, and how important it is to live your life to the fullest.
Asking our Creator to bless you, big sis, with many more healthy years.
Hope I created some good memories for you ❤️🥳🎂❤️🍷
Love you like fry fish & bammy, like ackee & saltfish, like sour sap juice, like mi favourite pumpkin soup. Thanks for being my big Sis🙏🏾❤️❤️🙏🏾
Hey IG Fam,
Sharing the excellent news about my first lit-baby, Swimming With Fishes.
A Danish publisher has bought the audiobook rights & I’m over the moon.
The editor contacted me to notify me that she’s arranging the casting & if I had any preferences.
I told her it was important to use authentic Jamaican accents for three of my characters; Mother Cynthia, (the Bush doctor) Miss Ruthie (AKA Miss Rootie) & Old Man Jaguar, Miss Ruthie’s BAE.
If you haven’t read Swimming With Fishes, hop over to #jacarandabooksartmusic & order your copy.
#audiobook #swimmingwithfishes #romanticnovel #romanceauthor #rashedaashantimalcolm #readers #readersofig #gratitudeattitude #publishers #jamaica #jamaicanaccent
Hey IG Fam, sharing some of my writer’s journey.
Throw back to Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica, 2018, my interview on #rootsfm with #deniseisismiller & the reggae songstress, Sharon Tucker.
My interview on RJR & meeting some of my international readers.
Check out my melanin rich complexion, kissed by the Jamaican sun ☀️
#memories #calabashliteraryfestival #jamaica #writers #authors #readers #melanin #hapicrunch #rjr #jamaicaradio
For the past six weeks I’ve been hosting a virtual creative writing workshop for women, titled; Still I Write.
Most of the women had writing experience, they just lacked the confidence, some suffering from imposter syndrome.
I encouraged them to write a mission statement for their writer-self, and during the 6 weeks workshops, they discovered their creative process as well as completed/or enhanced a work in progress.
So, I’m now hosting JustWrite, requested by the writers serious about leaving a legacy for family or an audience. A regular virtual creative writing workshop, Saturday mornings, create time for YOU & join us.
We write, we share & we debate. Join us.
#creativewritings #workshops #timetowrite #justwrite #timetocreate #writeabook #enjoypoetry #readers #writingtoexhale #write #writer #newtowriting #newwriters #empoweringwriters #empoweringwomen
T’was an engaging evening at the Romantic Novelist Association’s Industry Awards, which I was a short listed finalist.
I was given the ‘Queen’ treatment, donning a badge with a gold star ⭐️ representing my finalist status & a red heart ♥️ welcoming me to my first #romanticnovelistsassociation event.
I’m proud to have been shortlisted & feel like a winner, although I didn’t win.
Congrats to all the finalists & the winners, so looking forward to our next event.
#romanticnovelistsassociation #romance #awards #rna #authorofromance #iwrite #writerslife #editors #publishers #agents
When you host your creative writing workshop online, you can do it from anywhere in the house.
Because I write sitting in the middle of my bed, (I’m actually thinking of moving my writing back to the study) and the writers who join me online are also in their creative haven, a space they carved out to write, to let loose their creativity, we have an awesome time every Saturday, from 11-1pm, writing, sharing works & appreciating each other’s craft.
There are 12 women registered, all passionate & eager to complete their masterpiece, eager to transform their lives through writing.
The workshops are so successful that we’ve extended them for another six weeks, as requested by the writers who are in their flow & want to keep writing. And most of them intend to get published.
#writingworkshops #stilliwrite #onlineworkshop #writerslife #authors #authorlife #publishing #books #writingcraft #transformingthroughwriting #writersguide
There are days when I’m going through my pics & a particular one grabs me, & I’m taken back to that moment .
Here we are, four of the #twentyin2020 Jacaranda authors, hanging out at the Hammersmith &Fulham Writers’ Fes. @stellaonithewriter @esuantsiwa #njambimcgrath
There are twenty of us in total, authors of colour whose novels were published in 2020 by #jacarandabooks - check us out on https://www.jacarandabooksartmusic.co.uk/
Writing transforms lives. Reading shows you new worlds.
#writerslife #readersworld #hangingwithauthors #transformingmylife #justwrite #timetowrite #writersfestival #forevergrateful
Hey IG Fam,
I want to share some good news. I’ve been shortlisted & I’m happy.
Congrats to my fellow shortlisters.
Here’s to Self-Actualisation & Self-Belief. Always listen to your gut feelings about your goals & aspirations. Don’t fear YOU.
#shortlist #awards #novelist #romance #romancebooks #authors #writers #readers #loveagain #passionforlove #rashedaashantimalcolm #twentyin2020
Today was super busy as I attended meetings to view venues suitable for 2022 Hammersmith & Fulham Writer’s Festival.
Work has already began, we’re totally excited by the numbers of authors showing interest, both mainstream & indie - I’m looking forward to the creative workshops, which was suggested by last year’s attendees, made up of writers, budding writers, authors, readers & book lovers.
#writersfestival #writerslifestyle #authors #writers #creative #booklovers #readers #publishers
So, I’m a few days late in celebrating my second novel’s first birthday - so to celebrate I’m giving away stuff.
DM me and you get a signed copy of Love Again with my book bag & bookmark.
#giveaways #bookgiveaway #gifts #authorgifts #competition #celebration #celebrate #books #romance #romancebooks
When an idea grabs you - grab your laptop and write anywhere.
#write #justwrite #writingday #romance #writingromance #writingnonfiction #writing #writers #writingcommunity #writerslife📚
I wish you could’ve met her.
I’m feeling emotional. When a writer dies, a whole Library is lost.
When my author bredren, Kwame McPherson messaged me with the saddest news that our author friend, Roslyn Blaize had joined the ancestors, it was a kick in the gut, a trigger linking me back to the ever changing shape of grief that has shadowed me since 2020, the loss of my first love.
I had known Rose, (what we called her) for just over a year. She interviewed me on her Media Network TV Book Show in 2020.
She kindly hosted my online book launch for my second novel, Love Again . . . she was absolutely amazing, awesome, warm & funny, full on intelligence & a great reviewer & lover of books. A great conversationalist & debater.
She was an emerging author, her book, ‘Truthinghdom’ was published by Austin Macauley & her YA book, Shadow Shadow, was her accomplished dream.
She hosted her own Book Show on Medianetlive TV, where as I said before, I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by her. She was a true professional & took pride in her work as a social worker, a broadcaster & an author. She had the most delicious radio voice which could read you to sleep. I wish you could’ve known her too.
RIP ROSLYN BLAIZE AUTHOR ✍️
I know you’ll be writing masterpieces in Paradise 🙏🏾
Sending prayers & condolences to her children and wider family🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
#loss #grief #lifejourney #endoflife #missyou #blessings #prayers #joy #friendship #sisterlove #fun #laughter #toosoon #paradise #heaven #author
My kind of weather - I just love the sunshine - it immediately lifts my spirit & chase any blues away.
I hosted a one day creative writing workshop for female prison officers - I thoroughly enjoyed the day & the enthusiasm of the women who took part. I’ve been invited back to deliver workshops to the officers & their female clients, which I’m looking forward to.
#writing #writers #prison #spirit #liftingspirits #prisonofficers #writingworkshops #enjoyment #writerslifestyle
Hey IG Fam - my 6 weeks writing workshop, STILL I WRITE is back - we’re online so open to my international tribe.
For more info & to register email:
wilde2000@btopenworld.com
You’ll go through this writing journey with a tribe of like-minded people that have the same goals as you. To complete their first book.
Why do you want to write a book? Is it to leave a legacy? To fulfil a need? To express your feelings on paper? To help others? To use as a tool for your business?
Think about it and join me.
Look forward to meeting the writer in you.
#writingworkshops #stilliwrite #rashedaashantimalcolm #writers #authors #onlineworkshop
I’m enjoying an alternative Bank Holiday here in the UK, the last days before writing takes front stage again.
With no Notting Hill Carnival for the second year running, we’ve got to get creative with our free time, time we would usually spend with family & friends, enjoying life.
Little Venice in the London borough of Westminster, surprised me with its columns of barges, taking me back to pages in my school history books - the boat cafes & local wild life gave us a little excitement.
The one missing thing is the summer sun 🌞 we’ve had very little in the UK.
But life is always worth living.
#carnival #nottinghillcarnival #nocarnival #nosummersun #livelife #lifeworthliving #alternative #bankholiday #familytime #familyfun
When I asked my local creative hub, The Bush Theatre, and my local library, Hammersmith & Fulham why we didn’t have a writers festival in our borough, they didn’t know - hadn’t a clue.
So I suggested we host one annually. I told them my organisation would lead if they would support/sponsor. Whippee, they both said yes & the rest is history.
Yesterday, 22nd August we hosted the first of many, Hammersmith &Fulham Writers’ Festival and it was awesome.
Take a look.
#festival #writersfestival #authors #writers #readers #creatives #creativespace
I love sharing - today I’m sharing snippets from the Hammersmith & Fulham Writers’ Festival. Keep tuning in because I have more to share.
We had the amazing Award winning author, Dorothy Koomson zoomed in to inspire us with her book journeys, as told to author, Stella Oni.
#dorothykoomson #stellaoni #author #writers #femaleauthors #crimefiction #romance #writersfestival #bestsellers
The day after the night before - the first Hammersmith & Fulham Writers’ Festival was a success - I’ll be sharing snippets of the day with you.
It was amazing being in a room filled with creativity, authors, writers & readers, all pleased to be at the festival, giving us ideas & suggestions for next year.
#festival #writingfestival #author #writer #writinglife #writersconnection #inspirational
Hey IG Fam,
As well as a busy writing life, I’m a part of a global network of awesome women & on Thursday 19th August at 4pm BST, I will be leading the conversation on ‘How many hats do women wear?’
https://globalwomanevents.com/accra
#globalwomenclub #globalwomen #womenboss #ladyboss #author #writer #empoweredwomen #writerslifestyle #writerslife #globalwomanaccra