Mount Hope Media produces books, theatrical productions, and author events.

While Mount Hope Media has previously solely published Bernette’s works, we are expanding with an initial anthology of monologues, which is now accepting submissions. We also offer author services including publishing, promoting, and public speaking support.

Books and Theatre

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Light of the Dark Moon

AS A PRINCESS, MAGIC AND DUTY ARE IN HER BLOOD. AT LEAST THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE.

An overlooked princess journeys to the edges of the realm to reclaim her stolen magic but discovers her entire world is at risk of destruction.

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At twenty, Lafia Ketonga has reached the age of eligibility. She only has to pass her Demonstration of Magic and she can officially begin courting and start her path to her dream of being a light leader. However, her magic is inconsistent and she’s pretty sure it’s broken. She’s also certain that the gray smoke that has grown over the mountains above her kingdom of Narut, has something to do with it.

Lafia finds herself on an adventure that takes her to the magical land where her former mentor lives, and beyond, all with the hope she’ll find the answer to her failed magic.

Despite the impossible choice she faces between her dreams and saving the world and people she loves, she always remembers what all the royals of Faduwata understand. Faduwata is, always.

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Protect and Clear with the Divine

Protect and Clear with the Divine book by Bernette Sherman
UPDATED in 2022! From toxic people to bad energy and protecting of your home, family, and personal space this spellbook (prayerbook) is a magical tool for protecting and clearing the energy and the space around you and all you care about.

Bernette shares what she did for her home, family, and herself with you so you can have peace of mind.
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Protect and Clear with the Divine meets a need today with prayers for protection for everyday people. Born from the author’s personal needs and those of her clients, Bernette has provided more than twenty prayers and clearing statements for protecting and clearing people and spaces, removing negative energy, helping those in transition from this life, closing spiritual portals, and more. Whether you consider yourself spiritual, are traditional, or non-traditional, there is something in this book to help you walk in your power by covering you with the Light of the Divine. You’ll want to keep it handy so you can come back to it time and time again. I sincerely hope it brings you peace, protection, and the clarity it has provided me and my clients.

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Star Jumpers

At 17 I’m not trying to be a hero. I’m just trying to get home to my family but I either dismantle an intergalactic traffic ring or lose them.

The signed paperback is available in 47 continental United States (with the exception of Georgia, Alaska, and Hawaii) only and is shipped by media mail. Please allot 7 business days for order processing.

Immunity should have been a good thing. But to escape the captors holding her and her family hostage for immunity testing, she didn’t just jump out of the facility, but off the planet. Now she’s light years from Earth and escaping aliens but getting back home means ending an intergalactic trafficking ring. Can she do it before everyone she loves is gone?

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The Story of Ervin James

From Loss to Legacy – The Story of Ervin James matters
They couldn’t keep him from the dream. They couldn’t take away his legacy. The shoulders that strained under the weight of pain and slavery are the shoulders we stand on.

Inspired by Ervin James who lived in the 1800s. Ervin James overcame great odds, pain, loss, and suffering to leave a legacy when he managed to purchase over 100 acres of land and found a community for freed blacks in 1870. It’s a story of hope, love, and the family we make – including the unexpected.

This story is also of the strength and resilience of those who lived through these times and continue to live through their descendants today. Ervin’s story is told against the backdrop of a pre-civil-war era and then through it, gracefully incorporating history and culture into the experience of reading about his life. 

The Story of Ervin James is a carefully crafted, yet fictionalized, full length historical novel inspired by the life of Ervin James, a Black enslaved man, who lived in the 1800s. It is written by his great-great-great granddaughter.

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Resist Persist

From Rise Again:
Inside I scream, my cries unheard
Midnight in the garden of my inner world
Wrestle woman! Fight back! I yell
Lips unparted as I crawl through hell

Do you hear me – the time is now
Are you strong enough to break this ground
Till the soil and turn the roots
Rid us of the disease tormenting you

If you are one of those special people who understands that resistance and persistence can go hand in hand and that we have a duty to persist in our truth and our highest sense of self, then this book is for you.

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You can find Bernette’s books here on Amazon and you can shop the Mount Hope Media store for books.

Her play Four Wives and a Will, written and directed by Bernette Sherman, was selected for and produced as part of the 2021 SheATL Summer Theatre Festival and now available for production licensing through SheNYC Arts.

Her play Soil was commissioned as part of the Blue Series and held at the historic Apex Museum in 2022.

Scenes & Spoken Word