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
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
What excitement we had yesterday - here we are outside the Bush Theatre, half of the planning panel for the Hammersmith & Fulham Writer’s Festival, which is fast approaching.
We are super excited because it’s the first writers’ festival in the very creative borough (first of an annual event )& we’ve had fantastic responses.
After the festival, I have a very busy writing schedule ahead, which I’ll be sharing with my IG Tribe & to all the DMs asking about Sip N Labrish with my Disruptive Coach - we will be back very soon.
I hope to meet some of you readers, writers, authors & creatives at the festival, we may even get some summer British sun 🌞 lol.
#festival #writingfestival #authorsofig #authors #writers #writerslife #creatives #hfwritersfest #writing
The Land of my Umbilicus …
I was 7 years-old when I left Jamaica and joined my parents and big sister in the UK.
I was driven straight to Hertfordshire where I lived until I left home at 19 & headed for the bright lights of London - never did get to see the bright lights, Lol 😂
I have never forgotten my homeland, as soon as I had children, my partner and I took them to experience that wonderful island every summer & I’m proud that they all love Jamaica as much as their parents.
My first novel, Swimming With Fishes, was partially set on that beautiful island.
The island has its problems like we know, but the island isn’t a problem - it’s some of the people that inhabit the island that causes the problem.
Jamaica remains one of my favourite places to write.
#jamaica #jamaicanindependence #landofwoodandwater #landofmyumbilicus #jamaicangirl #jamaicanice #noplacelikehome
Count down to the Hammersmith & Fulham Writers Festival . . .
So excited. Looking forward to the live zoom interview with the awesome Dorothy Koomson, being conducted by the author, Stella Oni.
If you write, read and love reading and writing - if you want exposure to the writing process, a writers life - create the time to attend this writer’s festival.
#dorothykoomson #stellaoni #hfwritersfest #writers #authors #poets #writerslife #festival #writingfestival #creative
Hey IG Fam,
Laughing & smiling use more muscles than frowning 😾
I’m laughing because Hammersmith & Fulham Writers’ Festival is looming (22 August ) & the short story competition, especially the under 12s has attracted a lot of budding young writers.
I’m so proud of them & happy that their parents encouraged them to enter.
Next year it will be a 2 day festival - and another short story competition to enter for adults and children.
Looking forward to seeing you all there.
#festival #twentyin2020 #hammersmith&fulham #shortstory #childrenwriting #writers #readers #festivallovers #writersfestival
Cheers. Here’s to my work-in-progress, my next novel, Life Happens.
About three sisters, two of them separated in their early teens from their albino sister by their emotionally constipated and disturbed father.
The sisters spend the next twenty-five-years trying to find each other, while coping with the journey of life and all life brings. Joy, pain, success, distress, love, heartbreak, trauma, loneliness & self-actualisation. Because.
Life Happens.
#lifehappens #lifejourney #novel #womensfiction #findinglove #selflove #contemporaryromance #sisters #agoodread
When you go out to lunch and your date is your book. LOL. 🤣🤣🤣
I got me this weird habit of always carrying around a copy or copies of my book, if not in my hand bag, then there’s always one in my car.
It comes in handy when I bump into someone I haven’t seen in a while and they ask me what I’m doing now, I whisk out my book and there always follows an excited conversation where I’m bombarded with questions about my literary journey, which always lead to a confession in them always wanting to write a book/memoirs, but how? They want to know.
“Just write,” I tell them.
#writing #writers #authors #books #novel #memoirs #romancebooks #wanttowrite #womensfiction #writerslife
Here I am being treated to a well deserved drink after a day of writing by my very sweet sister-friend on the hottest day of the year in the UK so far.
One of many things that inspire me is the summer sun.🌞 In the UK we’re used to summer being a hit or miss - but when the sun comes out, so do we!
The parks, pubs and restaurants provides hours of socialising and fun, this is so my favourite time of year, as long as the sun shows up.
#summer #summersun #summerfun #qualitytime #mytimeofyear #friendship #publife #parklife #socialising #writerslife
Yes, I have been writing, the few days of summer sun 🌞 has had me writing in the garden. I’ve also been thinking of motherhood & the joy it adds to my life.
I have four men in my life - and they all call me Mama.
Hanging with son number 2 & swipe to meet son number 4.
Sons number 1 & 3 don’t do social media but thinks it great that their mother is so into it😂
My four children have been the greatest teachers in my life.
#mother #sons #motherofboys #motherhood #alwaysamother #mysons #mother&sons #writerslife #author
A beautiful summer’s day. Family & friends time. Let’s always appreciate life.
#summervibes #summertime #fun #familytime #writerslife #
Hanging with my nieces at a family barbecue birthday party. The conversations deserve a chapter in a contemporary novel.
#familytime #familyiseverything #familyfirst #nieceslove #lovemyfamily
Just had a call from one of my Reader Appreciation Tribe, she reminded me that my first novel, Swimming With Fishes was published on this day in 2017.
I do remember every minute of that day, from waking up in the morning to the preparation of the launch, the arrival of the people, and the actual launch.
I was so happy and was so happy to see how happy most people were for me. The wonderful feedbacks I got and keep getting fuels my creativity.
Here’s to many more years of writing contemporary Women’s fiction - romance, the best genre for escapism as far as I’m concerned.
#swimmingwithfishes #novel #debut #debutnovel #rashedaashantimalcolm #author #booklaunch #anniversary #contemporarywomensfiction #jacarandabooksartmusic #romance #romancebooks #writerslife