5-time writer Rosalind Kilkenny McLymont seen right here at a previous Community Journal Awards ceremony in New York Metropolis.
Photograph by Tangerine Clarke
Award-winning writer Rosalind Mclymont, who obtained Guyana’s Golden Arrowhead Award of Achievement, and honored by the New York Association of Black Journalists, and the Worldwide Black Girls’s Congress to call a couple of, not too long ago unveiled her fifth guide, titled “Lifted.”
McLymont, who additionally penned best-selling fictional “Center Floor and The Guyana Contract,” and non-fiction titles, “Africa-Strictly Enterprise” the regular march to prosperity, and co-author of the Walter E. Massey memoir, “Within the Eye of the Storm – My Time as Chairman of the Financial institution of America In the course of the Nation’s Worse Monetary Disaster,” in a launch to this publication, described “Lifted — 150 Quotes that Encourage Extremely Profitable Black Girls,” as an unique, unfiltered take a look at the phrases that floor, encourage, and information extraordinary ladies of their profession.
The writer reasoned “You’re pedaling and pedaling towards your aim pushing towards headwinds with every thing you’ve received, however generally it feels as if you’re not transferring in any respect. At different instances, it’s as for those who’re sliding backwards.”
“How do you maintain your self regular in your path. Are there phrases to induce your drained legs to make yet one more activate the peddle, she questioned, as a result of that yet one more flip will result in one other, and one other and one other,” she added.
“I wrote lifted as a result of I used to be so blown away by the quotations that ladies write, within the assertion they undergo The Community Journal (TNJ) as recipients of its ’25 Influential Black Girls in Enterprise’ Award. I felt I needed to share them — for the advantage of younger folks generally, however particularly for the advantage of those that are about to embark on their very own profession journey and those that have already achieved so,” mentioned the manager editor of the Community Journal.
McLymont, who taught English and Spanish in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and is a previous fellow of the European Group Guests Program, has over 30 years expertise as a author, speaker, and adviser to small and medium-sized firms on world enterprise and entrepreneurship, a few of whose books grew to become obligatory studying in excessive faculties and universities.
The gifted New York author, as soon as mentioned that regardless of her numerous obligations, she at all times insists on giving an genuine voice to her story. The well-traveled and eloquent skilled, doesn’t imagine there’s such an outline as a foul guide overview. She says she reads all her guide evaluations and refers back to the damaging ones as “constructive criticism.”
