Passionflix produced A Brother’s Honor from the Granger Series that is presently streaming. Brenda novels, One Special Moment and Truly Everlasting, have been made into movies by BET and Five Alive Films, respectively. She has been featured in several magazines including Essence, Sister-2-Sister, Today’s Black Woman, Ebony, Romantic Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and Cosmopolitan. Additionally in 2015, 20, Brenda was honored by the Southeast Small Business Magazine as one of Jacksonville’s Top 30 Women of Influence as well as the National Medical Association of Women Physicians.

In 2015, she received the Humanitarian Award from Florida Memorial University.

Mathis Community Service Award from the NAACP and the Bethune Cookman University Award 2014 for Community Service. In 2013 Brenda was recognized by her mayor with the Jacksonville Trailblazer Award. Three of Brenda’s books have already been made into movies, with two others scheduled to film in 2021. The pair are excited to bring Black love stories by Brenda, as well as by other romance authors, to life on the screen. (Jason’s Lyric fame) to launch a film and television company to develop and produce titles from Jackson’s collection of over 140 romance novels. With the belief that if you aren’t invited to the table, then you create your own table, Brenda Jackson has partnered with Hollywood’s film writer Bobby Smith Jr. For a list of additional awards and recognitions, please see link below. She was a 2012 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Fiction for her book, A Silken Thread and she was named Romance Writers of America’s Nora Robert’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for 2012. Since then, she has received numerous national and literary awards and has made many trail-blazing accomplishments, which includes being the first African-American author to make the New York Times Bestseller’s List and the USA Today’s Bestseller’s List in the romance genre. Her professional writing career began in 1995 with the release of her first book, Tonight and Forever.

She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and Brandon, ages forty-three and forty-one, respectively. Forty-nine years ago, she married her high school sweetheart, Gerald and they have two sons, Gerald Jr. She worked in management for State Farm Insurance where she retired after thirty-seven years. Brenda Jackson, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of over 140 books and novellas, and 15 million books in print, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Jacksonville University.

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