Sharma Taylor is a lawyer by profession and a writer by passion. This celebrated Jamaican author won the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Prize for her collection of short stories. She was also the winner of the 2019 Bocas Literary Festival's Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for emerging writers and was shortlisted four times for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In this episode, Sharma discusses her debut novel, What a Mother's Love Teaches You, which has been described as a powerful story of belonging, identity, and inheritance. She also offers tips on how to select a literary agent and get a book deal. Listen and share with book lovers and aspiring writers.