“Patricia Scarlett’s Blinded by the Brass Ring is delightful and ingriguing. The book offers readers a glimpse into the intriguing world of travel and film as well as the dramatics in the lives of an Afro-Canadian family, as Jewelle (JJ-to her friends) sashays through life as a well-heeled international television sales and distribution executive who wants more.” Egbert Gaye, The Montreal Community Contact News Paper.

“Patricia Scarlett’s Blinded by the Brass Ring swings smoothly between the worlds of the international television business and Caribbean life in Canada. A stylish, attractive woman, Jewelle Joseph is an international sales executive maneuvering, making deals, and warding off the attacks of a dangerous rival. She is also a roots woman, tuned into her ‘culcha’ and living her Jamaican self with a demanding family, a posse of close friends, and a boyfriend who needs more attention from very busy Miss Jewelle.” Maurie Alioff, Film Critic and Journalist

“Gripping, fresh and unpredictable. Enter into the cutthroat world of television programming where the best villains wear size 0.” Seema Vijay

“A fun and flirtatious insight into the nuanced experience of being an ambitious career-driven woman living a black experience in a white workplace. A familiar conversation that has not been heard yet, brought to life by complex personalities with secrets and insecurities that mirror characters in our own families.” Donisha Prendergast, Writer/Director, Actor, Public Speaker

“In this intriguing story of love, betrayal and office politics, Patricia Scarlett grapples with the nuances of cultural diversity in the late 1990s, personal goals and dreams, and the way in which we tend to allow outside elements and the pressing demands of family to interfere with our own deep and personal desires.” Dr. Marva McClean, Author and Professor