Sexual Healing

Sexual Healing is a wild, sexy ride, in which two inventive and hilarious sisters figure out a way to bring water into their sexual desert-and yours, too. It's a fearless look at what women want, and a fresh take on how they can get it. If you enter these pages lonely and wistful, you'll emerge refreshed and invigorated, in body, mind, and soul.
--E. Lynn Harris, A Love of My Own and Any Way the Wind Blows

This is the novel her fans have been hoping Jill Nelson would have nerve enough to write! Sexual Healing is smart and sexy, funny and fabulous, jazzy and justified! Sister Jill isn't just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She's our commander-in-chief and follow we must.
--Pearl Cleage, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day and I Wish I Had A Red Dress

In Sexual Healing , Jill Nelson brings her formidable wit to fiction. She pulls the covers off of American sex, demolishing hypocrisy and double standards with a pen wielded like a stiletto, drawing blood on every page.
--Ishmael Reed, Another Day at the Front and From Totems to Hip-Hop

In a comic novel that is as insightful as it is irreverent, Jill Nelson takes a bold look at sexual mores and gender politics that will leave readers howling with laughter. Women have been waiting for this one!
--Valerie Wilson Wesley, Always True To You In My Fashion and Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Call it 'Black Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough.' In her stellar  Sexual Healing , Jill Nelson shows the sexual revolution isn't over-it's just beginning.
--Farai Chideya, Don't Believe the Hype and The Color of Our Future

Volunteer Slavery

Nelson's voice is boisterous, honest and hilarious.
--Terry McMillan

A scalding, candid, mordantly funny book.No one, black or white, man or woman, who has chafed at the quotidian affronts of the modern-day workplace will fail to see themselves in this highly personal account of a bad trip.
-- Boston Globe

The same brutal honesty that allows [Nelson] to figuratively strip herself naked also makes her credible.Nelson has explored one woman's corporate hell in a way that is sometimes funny and often sad and that reveals and explores a great deal of pain that is not hers alone.
--Ellis Cose , Newsweek

Angry yet often very funny.may get attention because of its searing attack on the Washington Post, but.it is, above all, about identity and being black.[and] it is just plain hilarious.
-- New York Times Book Review

Irresistible, I couldn't put the book down.Nelson [writes with] the sardonic wit and wistfulness of Terry McMillan.[bringing] to life the experience of a smart black woman in the obdurately white world of the media.
--Cynthia Crossen, Vogue

Tumultuous, funny, and ultimately wrenching. Nelson's scathing tell-all is not for those with delicate sensibilities.It stings like salt on an open wound. And no target is off-limits.
-- Detroit Free Press

Straight No Chaser

Combines autobiography, political analysis and self-help to discuss unapologetically and courageously what ails the African-American community at the turn of the new century.
-- Beverly Guy-Sheftall , New York Times Book Review

Nelson, at her best.melding together autobiography, political belief and hard-hitting, in-your-face writing that says in no uncertain terms: Here's my truth; deal with it.
--Lise Funderburg, Newsday

A primer for black women, written with candor, courage and wicked wit..Fans of Nelson's blunt, no-hold's-barred style won't be disappointed.. This is Full Nelson--a fearless opinionator who has something to say about virtually everything. Nelson has succeeded in creating an impassioned call to action for black women.
-- Valerie Boyd , Washington Post Book World

Argues convincingly that black women need to raise a collective howl of rage.
--Jill Smolowe, Time

A diatribe, a love song, a wake-up call, an ode, a wail, a funkified slice of scholarship that teaches not the accepted lessons, but the necessary ones. Everyone should read this book.
--Patricia Smith, Boston Globe