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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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December 2009 – You may not know the name Kiki Swanson, but chances are her books have been in your midst. Right where the lump in your throat meets the place in your heart, she gives us hope that retirement living in Scottsdale can be rewarding with her new book Remnants – Ready for New Life.

WHO: Kiki Swanson, author www.kikiswansonbooks.com discovers for us five women coming together in Scottsdale after a life time of joy and heartbreak to rekindle their lifelong friendships in their senior years with her new fiction release. 
 
WHAT: Swanson writes about these unsung heroines in her new book  Remnants – Ready for New Life. Those humble types who live ordinary lives until circumstances such as divorce, death widowhood or alcoholism force them to rise above the grief and pain to discover greater truths such as “life is for the living to the end.”
 
WHEN: Remnants – Ready for New Life, recently released by Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ, is being launched now in time for your holiday reading list.

WHERE: www.kikiswansonbooks.com Kiki Swanson, Scottsdale, AZ author kikiswan@cox.net 
 
ISBN# 978-0-981-7881-4-2
 
WHY: People are yearning for earnest heartfelt stories they can relate to and learn from and Swanson delivers. Our society discounts the importance of the senior community in our society, while other cultures admire and honor them. Swanson kikiswan@cox.net aims to change all that with the 2010 launching of her book Remnants – ready for new life.

HOW: Swanson seeks to find the extraordinary in what appears to be ordinary lives. Her lead character has gentle courage, a spunky and funny demeanor, while quietly doing the “right thing”, to make us smile.

Her readers will see themselves in her subjects; their strength, love and courage too. Swanson understands it is people’s lives she is dealing with and that they are important to the storyline. She peaks our interest often in short chapters that tie together nicely.
 
AUTHOR INFORMATION: As a minister in senior issues at her church, Swanson was an “advice source” for many. Now her advice is on paper in a loving and humorous fashion. She never forgets that even in this fiction work, she is writing about real people in some way. 

Many told Swanson about their stories of loss and grief in her church ministry with seniors. She heard hundreds of stories – probably thousands – over the years. It was almost a relief to write Remnants so people would come up to her and talk more about friendships.

Swanson did not want to write a personal “tell all” and feels honored by those people in her life who trusted her to use their stories. She knew she had to be sensitive, a trait she honed during her many years as a practicing minister.

This is a book about women with friendships that span a half century, says Swanson, because these women have too much to offer at this age: love, friendship and wisdom.
She fills in critical details and emotions needed as she weaves the lives of Daisy and her friends together like Remnants onto a warm winter quilt. With the permission of her friends to embellish their stories and change names to produce a “new fiction” work, Swanson is cautious but strong in her pursuit of a good read.

PUBLISHERS COMMENTS: Swanson’s goals were met. She is emphatic, sensitive and touching in her portrayal of the women and their connections to each other. She’s both girlish and womanly in her revelations of these women and their issues later in life.

Are Swanson’s books good? (See www.kikiswansonbooks.com for others) Yes, some are dramatic, or inspirational, some spin a life into an engaging narrative, and another is oddly entertaining. Her books reflect our hopes of the world we want to know latter in life; filled with love and friendship, happiness and “busyness.”

With our country in two wars, a floundering economy and horrible stories on the evening news, we can get inside Remnants for 60 short chapters about women who have stayed friends forever, men who love and support them and a dog named Curly who teaches them the importance of loyalty one more time.

It is with earnestness that Daisy bonds with her friends at La Ventura and reminds us to stick to our convictions in laughter and in tears. Thank you Kiki Swanson for a fine read.

INTERVIEWEE: Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC
www.blog.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com book review on blog
Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM
Publishing Consultant, Author and Speaker
www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com – cell 480-250-5556info@brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, September 28, 2009 – To find healing in our creativity is the ultimate satisfaction on our quest for peace and harmony. That was accomplished this past week by author Rev. Cay Randall May, PhD as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ enhanced the launch of her high quality self-help production Healing and the Creative Response. This new book de-mystifies natural healing

In today’s political firestorm over health care alternative forms of medicine are overlooked. “Healing and the Creative Response: Four Key Steps Shared by Healers and Artists explains how to use prayer, laying-on-of-hands, Therapeutic Touch, Reiki and Energy Medicine to promote well-being. In addition to reducing the emotional and physical distress of illness and injury, Randall-May asserts that applying the steps in her book can enhance self-expression through a process she calls the Creative Response.

Randall-May, who represents prayer healing and medical intuition on the national Council for Healing and serves on the American Board of Scientific Medical Intuition, is a faculty member of the Energy Medicine University where she teaches natural approaches to healing. Readers who sample this richly illustrated book and CD online by visiting www.HealingCreativeResponse.com will be opened to the possibility of achieving greater well-being while engaging more than the usual senses.

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM of Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us.” Patricia knows the author is a spiritual soul having worked with her on the publishing process. Brooks also contributed her own experience to its content. She assures us the work’s examples are thought provoking.

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on this publication, as well as detailed information on their publishing services available to you. Patricia can help you as your “book shepherd” while you travel the writing and publishing maze. You can also visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their bloghttps://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Contact Patricia at 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com to set a date for your FREE one hour consultation and coffee meeting. Begin to take the path of your writing passion.

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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, July, 2009 – The American Business Womens Association – Turquoise Camel Chapter will feature publishing consultant “book shepherd”, author and Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com on Wednesday, July 8th at their monthly dinner at Anzio’s Italian Restaurant, 12418 N. 28th Dr., Phoenix, 6:00 p.m.

The American Business Womens Association continues 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 dinner to Donna Tucker 602-788-3121 or abwa-phoenix@att.net priced at $21.00. 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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ARIZONA AUTHORS ASSOCIATION and Chandler Library to feature Scottsdale Author/Publishing Consultant

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, January 13, 2009 – Published author, publishing consultant “book shepherd” and Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, www.plbrooks.com will be the featured speaker on Monday evening, April 20th at 6:00 p.m. at the Chandler Library, 4930 W. Ray Rd., Chandler, AZ.

The Arizona Authors Association, in partnership with the Chandler Library continues their speaker series with Patricia’s talk Three (3) Tips for Writing Self-Help. 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.

Writing Inspiration for Self-Help. Patricia takes you on your first step to writing with passion because you must write self-help. The journey is fresh and uplifting in its account of how she prepared to go from being a ferocious reader to a writer to an author in the self-help genre. Her perspective is generous and worth noting as she shares with you how to get focused on your goal.

The Importance of Research for Self-Help. This author shows wit, courage and faith during times of challenge by giving you research rules for self-help. Along with insight into a philosophy of writing life worth emulating, she motivates you regardless of your challenges to launch your vision for success and deal with writer’s block.

The Voice and the Structure of Self-Help. Patricia asks you to think about what your vision is for the book, and what your psychology and philosophy are behind the book. She wants you to be honest about how committed you are to do this work and how prepared and willing you are to be critical at all check points. She expects you to ask yourself who you are, what makes you that way and why you feel compelled to write what you want to write.

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

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. Patricia will be signing books at this event for her first book, a memoir, entitled Gifts of Sisterhood. Free chapters available on www.plbrooks.com

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Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC
launches Gratitude a Verb for a spiritual connection

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, January 5, 2009 – A spiritual connection is the ultimate need satisfied on our quest for peace and harmony. That was accomplished this past week as Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC of Scottsdale, AZ, launched another high quality self-help production with Gratitude a Verb, by Michael L. Lyding.

“This 12-step recovery meditation reader makes a difference for our time in its practical view of spirituality.” says Brooks. The author, Michael L. Lyding, of Grateful not Smug, and now Gratitude a Verb, www.improvespiritualconnection.com shares his mission for the book as “a spiritual tool to help improve your conscious contact with God.” He is praised by his peers for “proving that meditation can be easy and exciting.”

As a published author herself, Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, president and founder of Brooks Goldmann Publishing, endorses this book on what she considers “the ultimate subject for all of us.” She knows the author is a sincere and spiritual soul having worked with him in the publishing process of this book. Patricia assures us the meditations are well written and thought provoking and were revised with love after being written with hope.

The Brooks Goldmann Publishing website www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com provides more information on this publication, as well as detailed information on the publishing services available to you. She, and her husband and partner, Earl Goldmann, can help you as your “book shepherds” while you travel the writing and publishing maze to launch your book. You can also visit her many posts on writing and publishing on their bloghttps://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com.

Contact Patricia at 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com to set a date for your FREE one hour consultation and coffee meeting. Begin to take the path of your writing passion on the journey to Prepare to be an Author guided by her perspective to Launch Live your work.

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

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.

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ARIZONA BOOK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION and Barnes and Noble Scottsdale to feature Scottsdale Author/Publishing Consultant

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, December 15, 2008 – Published author, publishing consultant and Scottsdale business woman, Patricia L. Brooks, www.plbrooks.com will be the featured speaker on January 8th, Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Barnes and Noble at 90th Street and Shea.

The Arizona Book Publishers Association, in partnership with Barnes and Noble, continue their speaker series with Patricia’s talk “The Gift that Keeps on Giving – sharing the Journey of Writing”. Patricia takes you on the path of Writing Inspiration to your writing with passion. The journey is fresh and uplifting in its account of how she Prepared to be an Author. Her perspective on a Writing Plan for Organization is generous and worth noting.

Patricia shares her inspirational portrait of the relationship you want to develop with your writing as you take the many Revision Roads needed to produce your final masterpiece. This author shows wit, courage and faith during these times of challenge by giving you Research Rules before the Birth of your Baby. As well as insight into a philosophy of writing life worth emulating, she inspires you regardless of the Publishing Predicaments and challenges to Launch Live your vision for The Big Picture of our success in writing.

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

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. Patricia will be signing books at this event as well for Gifts of Sisterhood, a memoir. Free chapters available onwww.plbrooks.com.

WHAT: “Journey from Grief to Gratitude” is an upbeat and inspirational look at the grieving process through the eyes of a sibling survivor and author of the book Gifts of Sisterhood, Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM
COST: $10 per person $15 per two persons. Pre-registration required in store, by phone (480-839-6400), or online with PayPal at www.GetPsychedTheStore.com. For more information: 480-839-6400 or info@GetPsychedTheStore.com
WHEN: Wednesday, November 8, 7 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
WHERE: Get Psyched! the store, the seminars, 1709 E. Guadalupe Rd., Tempe (SW corner of Guadalupe and McClintock)
WHO: Patricia L. Brooks, LLC is an inspirational speaker who has contributed to the development of successful women for many years. She has been a university faculty associate for over ten years and is currently teaching marketing at Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus. Patricia has published articles, written short stories, edited university curriculum and developed a career of seminar presentations. She is a member of the National Association of Women Writers and president/founder of the Scottsdale chapter.

Her first book – Gifts of Sisterhood-a journey on to your own – is a personal perspective and celebration of her sister’s life. Her workshop entitled, Journey from Grief to Gratitude, has made her a favorite for many wellness programs and
organizations. For more information see www.plbrooks.com

Get Psyched! is dedicated to providing information and products of a psychological nature to community residents of the Phoenix Valley. This first of its kind enterprise offers mental health professionals, teachers, parents, and other adults, information, aids, and seminars to foster healthier individuals, couples, families, and communities. Our dream is to provide consumers with information and materials that promote emotional health, spiritual growth, and physical well-being all of which lead to psychological health.

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