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SSWW Welcomes Andrea Brundage, Professional Organizer

December 25, 2019 by brooksadmin

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

Filed Under: Blogroll, Featured post, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS Tagged With: Andrea Brundage, books, Patricia L. Brooks, Professional Organizer, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, women writers, writing and publishing

Interview on Sandy and Friends

October 13, 2017 by brooksadmin

Sept 29, 2017 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.

Filed Under: YouTube

Book Marketing Trends and Tips for Building a Loyal Audience

May 20, 2017 by brooksadmin

Book Marketing Trends and Tips for Building a Loyal Audience

LEARN about Word-of-Mouth Marketing, Building Relationships and Loyalty, Honoring our Readers, Developing a Community, and Using Social Media

 

Filed Under: YouTube

Patricia is interviewed by January Jones of Blog Talk Radio

February 17, 2016 by brooksadmin

blogtalkradiobuttonJanuary Jones is the author of, Thou Shalt Not Whine….The Eleventh Commandment. Ms. Jones interviews Success Coaches sharing their Stories, their Struggles and their Success Secrets! She is a host on Blog Talk Radio.

She interviewed Patricia about Gifts of Sisterhood

Here is a link to the interview

Filed Under: Featured Interviews, Interviews

Book Review – I Look Like Me

February 19, 2015 by brooksadmin

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

Filed Under: Book Reviews

Radio Interview: The Grammar of Grief with Uma Girish

June 17, 2014 by brooksadmin

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

Filed Under: Featured Interviews

Book tells of childhood, sister’s death – Newspaper Interview

March 8, 2013 by brooksadmin

Here is a link to an interview in the Arizona Republic from June, 2005

Filed Under: Blogroll, gifts of sisterhood

Scottsdale Author and Scottsdale Publisher Launch When Angels Call Your Name

February 7, 2011 by brooksadmin

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.

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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
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Filed Under: Press Release

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

November 6, 2010 by brooksadmin

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

Filed Under: Press Release

WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS SMALL BUSINESS BOOT CAMP to feature Scottsdale Author/Publishing Consultant Patricia L. Brooks

February 7, 2010 by brooksadmin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Feb. 2010 – Women Entrepreneurs Small Business Boot Camp will feature publishing consultant “book shepherd”, author and Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com on Saturday the 7th of February, 2010 at their annual event at the Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N. Scottsdale, Rd., Scottsdale, AZ.

The Women Entrepreneurs Small Business Boot Camp inspires their speaker series with Patricia’s talk Publish Yourself as the Expert. Patricia shares her inspirational portrait of the relationship you want to develop with your writing as you take the many steps needed to produce fine work and instrument change. Please RSVP for this event to Susan Ratliff at susan@susanratliff.com Thank you.

Publish Yourself as the Expert. Patricia takes you to writing with passion because you must be an instrument for change. The journey is fresh and uplifting as she shares with you how you too can be enthused as a writer of non-fiction while enhancing your career. Her perspective is generous and worth noting as she helps you: (1) Understand what moves you (2) Develop a personal mission and (3) Honor for whom you need to be a voice.

Develop a Winning Writing Plan. Patricia shows wit and courage during these times of challenge by giving you suggestions for goals, objectives and strategies. Along with insight into a philosophy of writing life worth emulating, she motivates you to launch your vision for success by being well organized and prepared in your writing. With a timeline and emulating others you admire, she reminds you of the five W’s of reporting good information for a non-fiction publication. She prepares you to write.

Practice Strict Research Rules. Patricia asks you to do your homework, understand research, practice good interview skills, read, experiment, observe, survey and learn your topic well. In thinking about your vision for the book, and what your philosophy is behind the book, you will understand yourself completely. She wants you to be honest about how committed you are to do this work and how willing you are to be critical with a follow-up plan. She expects you to ask yourself why you feel compelled to write what you want to write.

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Patricia L. Brooks is president/founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, is a member of the AZ Authors Association, the AZ Book Publishers Association and the Phoenix Writers Club.

She is owner of:
P. L. Seminars, LLC (www.plbrooks.com)
Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co., LLC, (www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com)
www.blog.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

She is associate faculty at Arizona State University – teaching Marketing, She has resided in Arizona for over 30 years and has been active in the business community for all of that time.

Patricia holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Management, the Advanced Toastmasters designation and has been named to “Who’s Who of America’s Teachers.

She can be reached at patricia@plbrooks.com or 480-250-5556. She is the published author of Gifts of Sisterhood and currently has two manuscripts ready for publication in the self-help/non-fiction genre.

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Earl L. Goldmann, Manager
Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC
480-250-5556
egoldmann@cox.net
www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com
https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

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