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WRITE A MEMOIR TO REMEMBER

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The Arizona Authors Association to offer Zoom Online Memoir Writing Workshop

Scottsdale Award-winning Author, Patricia L. Brooks will be Featured with her Memoirs

Scottsdale, AZ:  The Arizona Authors Association is a trusted provider of community events and services. On Saturday June 11, 2022, from 10:00-12:00 noon/PST. AAA will feature award-winning author and publishing consultant Patricia L. Brooks facilitating her online workshop Write a Memoir to Remember. The workshop is free, but we do encourage you to support Patricia and buy one of her memoirs. Registration is required RSVP to Patricia with a text to 480-250-5556 or email her at patricia@plbrooks.com and see www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com for book previews.

Presentation Description    

We are experiencing an unprecedented time in our history.  Our lives have changed in so many ways.  In an encouraging and insightful presentation, Patricia will help you capture your untold story. Through her highly regarded presentation, she will share with you how to produce this memoir to your own satisfaction, face your fears and conquer your story’s emotional essence.

With tips and techniques from her own daring memoirs, (Gifts of Sisterhood, Three Husbands and a Thousand Boyfriends, and Sick as My Secrets), Patricia will inspire you to take the necessary steps to complete your manuscript. She will also discuss why you should:  keep a writing journal, do the necessary research, write goals and make no excuses about your writing.

In this workshop, Patricia stimulates your creative talents by showing you how to break through your silence to find your voice and give yourself permission to write your truth. Considering what has been happening in the world, now is a great time to record your stories for posterity.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the real Theme of your memoir
  • Learn to dig deep to get to the Soul of the story
  • Discover the Depth and Challenge of your memoir
  • Realize you can Speak your Truth

For more information contact: Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM, President/founder, Scottsdale Society of Women Writers and Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com  patricia@plbrooks.com or 480-250-5556 text/cell.

SSWW Welcomes Andrea Brundage, Professional Organizer

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SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Andrea Brundage, Author, Organizer

Simple Organized Solutions (SOS)

Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wed JAN 29th, 2020  5:30 pm – See PayPal info below*

Starfire Golf Club, 11500 N. Hayden Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260

Mission:  The Scottsdale Society of Women Writers gives members access to events of interest, a format for exchanging ideas, an opportunity to network with other women writers and authors, an alliance with professionals relating to writing, publishing, and marketing of books, and camaraderie and support.

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SPEAKERS:  Andrea Brundage, Professional Organizer

Andrea Brundage is a Professional Organizer & Bringer of Calm. She founded Simple Organized Solutions (SOS) in 2003 to help people who struggle with clutter, chaos, stress, and overwhelm.

Andrea works with clients from all walks of life. From overwhelmed executives to busy families, downsizing seniors, and everything in between.

She released her first book, Simplify Your Life: 8 Simple Principles to Turn Your Chaos into Calm and its companion, the Simplify Your Life Journal, in 2019. She is currently working on a children’s book about organizing.

Time cannot be managed, saved, or spent. Time simply ticks on by and we allocate our use of itbased on our priorities.

So, what are your priorities? Are you allocating your time and organizing your life to achieve the outcomes you most desire? Or are you struggling to get it all done?

Andrea Brundage, Professional Organizer and published author will share some thoughts on organizing your life and maximizing your time. She will also challenge you to identify your true priorities so you can mindfully allocate time towards the pursuit of your desired goals.

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NOTE:

RSVP before NOON the Friday morning before the meeting    The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food a week in advance, and must receive a guaranteed number at that time, the confirmed deadline for an RSVP!   Thank you for appreciating our contract with the Starfire Golf Club. 

*Please PAY IN ADVANCE with PAYPAL on this website only – see home page www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com   NOTE upper right corner for the link. Please fill out the form and pay with your credit card before NOON the FRIDAY before the meeting!  Meeting information on the left of the main page.  Thank you!

PRICING:  $30 for members and guests.  We no longer take checks or cash at the door, except for payment of Annual Dues.  Thank you for moving forward with SSWW.          

CHECK-IN:  Please check-in between 5:15 and 5:45 pm.  The buffet is available by 5:45 Themeeting starts promptly at 6:00.  

All those attending the meeting must pay for the dinner/room/speaker.  The cost is noted above.  Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!

Guests pick up a membership signup sheet too.

AGENDA:  The agendas will be on the dinner table with a lot of wonderful announcements for you, including the schedule of upcoming meeting speakers.  Remember, the announcements are reviewed at 6:00 with dinner.  The member introductions follow at 30 seconds each. 

DIRECTIONS:  From the 101 Freeway, exit Shea Blvd and go West to Hayden Road and then North a quarter mile, the club is on the West side (Left) of the street.  From the South, cross Shea Blvd going north on Hayden Road, again, it is on the West side (Left) of the street.   11500 North Hayden Road, Scottsdale.

Goals of the Group

  • Value all the professional women writers seeking to share their expertise
  • Honor all genres and all forms of professional writing
  • Attend monthly meetings to move the group and its members forward
  • Learn and share in the experiences of monthly professional speakers
  • Grow the group to a membership of active and contributing women
  • Encourage participation by members as mentors, and volunteers
  • Support and challenge each other to always be writing
  • Help members to stretch as writers and reach lofty personal goals
  • Have fun, meet trustworthy women writers, share dreams

Interview on Sandy and Friends

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Interview with Sandy and Friends, Prescott, AZ TV channel 7 – Earl L. Goldmann and Patricia L. Brooks . Earl discusses writing his first memoir Bounce Back, his story of trauma and recovery, growing up in Tillamook, OR and his horrific car accident while in college at Oregon State University, and losing his athletic scholarships. Inspirational.

Book Review – I Look Like Me

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I Look Like MeBOOK REVIEW I Look Like Me

 

Author: Paula Dieck www.ILookLikeMe.com

Book Reviewer: Patricia L. Brooks, Author and Publishing Consultant

I Look Like Me is the story of an idealistic childhood in the Midwest. A loving family. A father and his little girl. It is also about a lot of blonde haired, blue eyed cousins who do not look like the perfectionist who knows she is adopted and loved by her family.

Her memories are sensory as she recalls the intoxicating high of having good grades against the low struggle to find her identity while being reminded she’s different. She’s grateful to be chosen by her adopted parents as the little girl they always wanted, but feels the abandonment of her birth mother. She often lives alone in her thoughts and feels unworthy.

The Norwegian town of her upbringing is a constant reminder she’s from somewhere else. Her dark hair and eyes shape her face, but not feeling good enough engulfs her heart. She knows her anger at a young age. She moves on to a big college taking her shyness and the emptiness she hoped to leave behind with her. She begins to think about finding her birth mother and what she would write in a letter. She longs to know if her mother wants to know her. She becomes obsessed with whom she looks like and why she was given up. Her search for answers is supported by her parents. They know she loves them and they expected this day would come.

Dieck writes with a conversational intimacy, inhabiting the role of a new best friend who shares just enough in each chapter to make you want more. She doesn’t want to find only one parent, but also her father to understand why they did not marry and keep her. She must accept that her birth mother wants nothing to do with the father.

As her biological family’s skeletons are let out of the closet, the story winds back-and-forth from coast-to-coast over and over again as Deck searches for her truth, for the best career choice, for the love of her life and for where she is comfortable in the world. Her upheaval patterns play out through the story and mirror all aspects of her life.

Engaging and laced with mourning for a life left behind, a life not lived, Dieck’s memoir has a coda for which her birth mother would be envious. This is a book of hope, not struggle. It is a life of opportunities for growth and awareness. It is a story of forgiveness and a telling of the human experience. It is recognition of truth and an experience of self-love. I salute her every word.

Respectfully reviewed by,

Patricia L. Brooks, Author and Publishing Consultant

www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Radio Interview: The Grammar of Grief with Uma Girish

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blogtalkradiobuttonUma Girish is a host at Blog  Talk Radio

When Patricia Brooks lost her beloved sister to cancer, she awakened fully to the gifts of their shared life journey. In writing about her experience of grief and the journey back to gratitude “The Gifts of Sisterhood” Patricia shines a light on the gifts her youngest sister gave her so freely, the gifts that keep on giving: Faith, Love, Frienship, Happiness and Acceptance. In our conversation, we will explore some of the big questions: Where do memory and legacy intersect? How can we live life more fully after returning from the brink of loss? How do we move from grief to gratitude?

Current Self Help Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with The Creating Calm Network 2 on BlogTalkRadio

See more interviews featuring Patricia Brooks

Scottsdale Author and Scottsdale Publisher Launch When Angels Call Your Name

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – February 2011 – To find hope in our creativity is the ultimate satisfaction on our quest for understanding miracles and how they impact lives.  That was accomplished this past month by Scottsdale author Marilyn Frazer www.marilynfrazer.com  as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ enhanced the launch of her high quality self-help production When Angels Call your Name.  This new book de-mystifies the experience of miracles in our lives today.

In today’s firestorm of spiritual doubt, this book is a collection of touched-by-an angel stories that should not be overlooked.   Frazer gathered the miracle stories over the years from true accounts of people who experienced the unusual, the synchronistic, the amazing and told them in their own words.  Each one is a small miracle, often a life-changing experience that will touch your heart.   In addition to reducing the mystery of miracles in her book, When Angels Call your Name, Frazer asserts life’s miracles occur all the time.  Perhaps you too have a story of a beautiful life changing experience.

Frazer, who represents not only her writing but her art and meditation, serves the community in many ways.  She teaches and works within natural approaches to creativity.  Readers who sample this beautiful book will become open to the possibility of achieving greater well-being and peace with life’s many miracles.

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, of Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us” – finding personal peace and acceptance that miracles do exist and are possible for all of us.  Patricia assures the author is a spiritual soul having worked with her on the publishing process. She confirms the book is thought provoking and genuine.

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on their publishing services.  Patricia can help you travel the writing and publishing maze.  Visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their blog https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com.

Contact:
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Email:
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Blog:		 Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC
7970 E. Camelback Rd., 710, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480-250-5556
egoldmann@cox.net or patricia@plbrooks.com
www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com
https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

MAKING MEMORABLE MEMOIRS MAGICAL: Writing Workshop to support Friends of Chandler Library

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Have you ever wanted to write a memoir? You can find out how to turn your
memories into written magic at a writing workshop on Saturday, November 6th at the
downtown Chandler Public Library from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
This exciting workshop is presented by Patricia L. Brooks, author, speaker, publishing
consultant and president/founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers
www.plbrooks.com and www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com and the Friends of the
Chandler Library.
Workshop participants will learn what memoir story is, what memoir writing is
and its significance in their lives. According to Ms. Brooks, “Writers will develop a
greater connection within their families by providing a more full and personal sense of
who they are in their writing. They will take away information on the passages of writing
and learn how to put the memoir story together with events and emotional beats.”
The cost of the event is $25.00 for members of the Friends and $30.00 for nonmembers and includes continental breakfast. Participants will receive a quality writing
workshop at a very affordable price and get to support the library at the same time.
Interested participants can download the registration form and view the workshop
details at www.chandlerlibrary.org.

Register by November 3rd to secure a seat at this unique workshop. For more information, contact the Friends at 480-782-2771, or the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers at patricia@plbrooks.com or cell 480-250-5556.
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MAKING MEMORABLE MEMOIRS MAGICAL
Writing Workshop
Chandler Public Library
22 S. Delaware
Chandler, AZ 85225
Saturday, November 6, 2010
10 a.m. to 12 noon
$25 Friends members
$30 non-members
Information: Suzanne Kinsi

Contact Info

Brooks Goldmann
Publishing Company, LLC
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

480-250-5556

Contact:
Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM
Earl L. Goldmann

info [at] brooksgoldmannpublishing [dot] com

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