At that time, author Brenda showed a lot of determination in writing novels based on the multicultural romances, especially the ones featuring the Afro-American characters. At the writers conference, Brenda a couple of then unpublished novelists named Rochelle Alers and Francis Ray, who inspired her to write. Seeing her confidence, Gerald enrolled her for a conference of romance writers and encouraged her to try and write a novel of her own. Therefore, author Brenda used to complain to her husband often and used to say that she could write a much better novel on her own. Even though she used to enjoy reading those novels, she seemed rather dissatisfied because of the fact that those novels lacked ethnic and cultural diversity depicted in the characters. Throughout the early 1990s, Brenda used to work for a number of odd jobs and in order to get a relief from the stresses caused by her hectic job schedules, she started engaging herself in reading romance novels.

The latter went on to become a Political Officer and works for the US Foreign Service. Meanwhile, she also became the mother of two sons named Gerald Jr and Brandon. Later, Brenda earned her degree in business administration from the Jacksonville University. She went on to marry her high school sweetheart named Gerald in the year 1972, right after graduating from her high school. Brenda was born in the year 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States and was also brought up in the same place. She is in fact the first Afro-American author to achieve this accomplishment. In the year 2013, author Brenda reached a milestone in her writing career by publishing her 100th novel. Many of her novels have also reached the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists. She is particularly popular to be the first Afro-American novelist who has published a novel as a part of the line of the Silhouette Desire. Whispered Promises & Sweet Stallion (With: Deborah Fletcher Mello)īreaking Bailey's Rules / Reclaimed by the Rancherīrenda Jackson is one of the award winning and noteworthy authors of America who has written a number of successful contemporary, multicultural romance novels in her writing career.

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