Sparkle Richards

Sparkle Richards is a Trinidadian born, self-published novelist. Her debut novel, “De Next Bacchanal” was released in April 2011 at Nigel R Khan Booksellers in West Mall where the novel sold out during its launch within mere hours. The drama followed seven couples whose lives were impacted by love, violence and money. The novelist was extremely pleased to present her love of her country by bringing the novel home to her people.

 

The follow-up novel “Moka” (A Modern Offering of a Kinky Affair) was her seminal offering of erotica and was launched at NRK in 2016 to mass acclaim. The novel sold out within four days of its first stock and continued to garner momentum, selling out a shocking four times within the following year. Due to the ever growing surge of interest in erotica owed to EL James’ “Fifty Shades” collection of books, Richards was able to make a dent in the local Trinidadian market for what seemed a public quite ready for a Trini twist on erotica.

 

The novel about a scorned housewife, and her trysts with her husband’s best friend, continues to sell and be a shining star for Richards even as the novel nears its fourth year. In her attempts to keep the momentum, she responded in kind by following up with her third self-published title, “Red”. Red follows a beauty queen socialite who marries an affluent businessman and discovers all that glitters is not at all gold.

 

The erotica was released at a private event hosted by Richards and her family where it was offered for sale and sold out in August 2018. Sparkle’s two latter erotic novels are now available at both RIK and NRK book stores In Trinidad and Tobago and her original novel “De Next Bacchanal” is on Barnes and Noble, Kindle and all other e-book platforms. She continues to work diligently on her 2020 release, a novel entitled “Tutulbay” (love foolish) which is carded for release this Summer.

 

She describes the newest book as a drama with some erotic and perhaps even horrific elements. Due to ongoing issues worldwide with the Covid-19 epidemic, much of her work planned for this year may be on delay. However, as before she is committed to bringing the unique Trinidadian flavour and voice to her readers.