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SSWW Welcomes Vijaya Schartz, Author of Many Novels

February 29, 2020 by patricia

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Vijaya Schartz, Author

Science Fiction, Contemporary Romance

Non-fiction and Celtic Legends

Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

Wed March 25th, 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.

SPEAKER:  Vijaya Schartz, Author – Science Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Non-fiction and Celtic Legends

THE JOY OF POLISHING THE STORY:  You just wrote “The End.” Now, the true writing starts. You are ready to add meaning, nuance, foreshadowing, active setting, and subtle twists. Now, you can crank up the emotion and drama, adjust the pace, refine the storytelling, and add all the interesting flavors. Like when cooking, you add the special herbs, spices and sauces that will transform an ordinary fare into a culinary delight.

Born in France, award-winning author Vijaya Schartz never conformed to anything and could never refuse a challenge. She writes strong heroines, brave heroes, and cats. She likes action and exotic settings, in life and on the page. She traveled the world and claims she must be a time traveler, since she writes with the same ease about the far past and the far future. With thirty titles published, Vijaya Schartz writes action adventure laced with sensuality and suspense, in exotic, medieval, or futuristic settings. Her books collected many five-star reviews and literary awards.  Visit her at www.vijayaschartz.com 

NOTE:

RSVP before NOON the Friday before the meeting    The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food in advance and must receive a guaranteed number and 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 in advance.  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, Uncategorized Tagged With: fiction, novels, Patricia L. Brooks, psychological suspense novels, romance novels, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, speak on non-fiction writing, Vijaya Schartz, women writers

SSWW Welcomes Anne Montgomery, Author, Teacher, Former Sportscaster

March 4, 2019 by pbrooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Anne Montgomery

Former Television Sportscaster

Author, Teacher, Newspaper/Magazine Writer

WHAT:          Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

WHEN:          WED March 27th, 2019 5:30 pm

See PayPal info below*

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

WHY:             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.

_____________________________________________________________________

SPEAKERS 6:45:  Anne Montgomery

Anne Butler Montgomery has worked as a teacher, author, television sportscaster, newspaper and magazine writer, amateur baseball umpire, and high school football referee. Montgomery is a teacher at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, a foster mom to three sons, and an AIA football referee and crew chief. Her novels include The Scent of Rain and A Light in the Desert. When she can, she indulges in her passions: rock collecting, football officiating, scuba diving, musical theater, and playing her guitar.

A Light in the Desert

As a former Special Forces sniper descends into the throes of mental illness, he latches onto a lonely pregnant teenager and a group of Pentecostal zealots. When the Amtrak Sunset Limited, a passenger train, is derailed in the Arizona desert in a deadly act of sabotage, their lives are thrown into turmoil. As the search for the saboteurs heats up, the authorities uncover more questions than answers. And then the girl vanishes. As the sniper struggles to maintain his sanity, a child is about to be born in the wilderness.

RSVP before NOON the Friday morning before the meeting    The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food a week in advance, and I must give a guarantee to them at that time.  That is 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, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anne Montgomery, educating, novels, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, sports broadcasting, SSWW, starfire golf club, teaching, women writers, writers

SSWW Welcomes Linda Style, Novelist, Teacher and Founder of Boot Camp for Novelists

February 4, 2019 by pbrooks

WHAT:          Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

WHEN:          WED Feb 27th, 2019 5:30 pm

See PayPal info below*

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

WHY:             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.

SPEAKERS 6:45:  Linda Fensand Style, Award-winning Novelist, Writing Teacher

Linda will speak about her experiences in 20-plus years as a novelist (15 years with a New York publisher and five years as an independent, publisher) and as a writing teacher and co-founder of Bootcamp for Novelists, an online writer’s school for novelists, where she taught the advanced level writing classes.

Linda’s non-fiction book “Bootcamp for Novelists: Writing Techniques of the Pros” includes six months of Linda’s class lectures, exercises and examples, some of which Linda will share and discuss along with what she believes to be the most important techniques to learn when writing both fiction and non-fiction. 

In addition to writing novels, Linda also works occasionally as a freelance editor and writes travel articles for her travel website, GoRoamin.com, which she’ll happily discuss any time someone wants to listen. 

RSVP before NOON the Friday morning before the meeting    The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food a week in advance, and I must give a guarantee to them at that time.  That is 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, Uncategorized Tagged With: books, Boot Camp for Novelists, Linda Fensand-Style, novelists, novels, publish books, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, women writers, write, writing and publishing

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers now welcomes as speaker Award Winning Author Larry Brooks

April 6, 2015 by patricia

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

 20140729_115150.jpeg LARRY BROOKS

WHO:             Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHAT:          Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

Camaraderie for writers and speaker/member book signings

 

WHEN:          WED April 29th 2015 at 5:30-7:30 pm

 

WHERE:        Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner

Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4th Floor Grill entrance

 

HOW:             Please – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

 

WHY:             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 businesses relating to writing, publishing, camaraderie and support.

 

SPEAKER/presentation:  The “writing conversation” is at once robust and foggy, whether it manifests online or in conference rooms, bars or wherever writers gather.  They debate process, they compare premises, they swap tips and offer recommendations, and yet very seldom does the noise seem to coalesce into undebatable principles and immediately applicable practices.  And yet those do exist, residing among and above all this noise, awaiting discovery by writers who are tired of decades of trial and error and rejection.  Larry Brooks talks about it all, cutting through the noise in the process.

Larry Brooks is the author of two bestselling writing books: “Story Engineering,” and “Story Physics.”  His new writing book – “Story Fix: Transform Your Manuscript from Broken to Brilliant in Just One Draft” will be published in September 2015 by Writers Digest Books. Brooks is the USA Today bestselling author of six thrillers.  He teaches at workshops and conferences nationally and internationally, and coaches writers through his website, www.storyfix.com.
Larry Brooks

StoryFix2.0 

http://storyfix.com

Twitter: @Storyfix  503-799-9343

 

Continue…..

See notes below for dinner fees, meeting format and location directions.  Thank you.

 

MENU:  A light dinner – salad or sandwich and soup, dessert, beverage and roll with tax and gratuity included – make your choice the night of the meeting.

 

COST:  Members $28 (effective Feb, 2015) and Guests $30

 

RSVP   Please RSVP by noon Monday – prior to the meeting.  If you cannot attend after RSVP, please resend before noon the Tuesday before.  Thank you.

 

CHECKS or cash:  Please make your check payable to (SSWW) Scottsdale Society of Women Writers prior to coming to the meeting to save time at the check-in.  Thank you.

 

CHECK-IN:  Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45.  The meeting starts promptly at 6:00.  All those attending the meeting must pay to attend the dinner/room/speaker – cost noted above.  Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!

 

CANCELLATION:  If you are unable to attend the meeting, please cancel by the Monday prior to the meeting – and by noon.  Thank you.

 

AGENDA:  The agendas will be on the dinner table – always a lot of good information for you and the schedule of the upcoming speakers.

 

DIRECTIONS:  Located in Scottsdale Rd at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town.  Chaparral Rd has a light.  Parking is to the rear – two large lots.  Note: Best to enter from the side elevator at the 4th Floor Grille – not the main lobby.

 

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west.  Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at the 4th Floor Grille – take that elevator.  Note awning marked 4th Floor Grille on the Chaparral side.  This is the easiest way – Not through the main lobby.  Welcome!

 

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 presenters, mentors, judges 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: books, characters in your book, Larry Brooks, novels, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, story physics, Story structure, Willamette Writers conference, writing

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Jessica McCann, award winning historical fiction writer

September 15, 2014 by patricia

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

 

Do you know how to walk the fine line between fact and fiction?

Welcome Jessica McCann, historical fiction author

 

Our 9th Anniversary Meeting!

 

ADKF hi-res cover

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WHO:            Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHAT:          Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

Camaraderie for writers and speaker/member book signings

 

WHERE:       Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner

Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4th Floor Grill entrance

 

WHEN:          WED September 24th, 2014 at 5:30-7:30 pm

 

HOW:            Please – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

 

WHY: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 businesses relating to writing, publishing, camaraderie and support.

 

SPEAKER: Jessica McCann

 

Jessica McCann is a professional freelance writer and has worked as a journalist and editor for more than two decades. Her award-winning nonfiction has been published in dozens of magazines (including Business Week, The Writer, Phoenix and ASU Research). McCann’s debut historical novel, All Different Kinds of Free, was awarded the Freedom in Fiction Prize and published by Bell Bridge Books in 2011.

Learn more online at www.JessicaMcCann.com

 

Presentation: Ensuring Our Stories are True

 

How do we ensure that our stories are “true” — true to ourselves, true to our readers, true to history? All writers walk a fine line between fact and fiction, regardless of our genre. Historical fiction, creative nonfiction and memoir are three particularly tricky genres. Award-winning novelist and journalist Jessica McCann will explore and discuss the ethical and creative challenges of writing honest prose that reveals life’s biggest truths.

 

 

See notes below for dinner fees, meeting format and location directions.  Thank you.

 

 

MENU:  A light dinner – salad or sandwich and soup, dessert, beverage and roll with tax and gratuity included – make your choice the night of the meeting.

 

COST: Members $25 and Guests $30 (new July 1st 2014) – Please RSVP early

 

CHECKS or cash:  Please make check payable to (SSWW) Scottsdale Society of Women Writers prior to coming to the meeting to save time at check-in.  Thank you.

 

CHECK-IN:  Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45.  The meeting starts promptly at 6:00.  All those attending the meeting must pay for the dinner/room/speaker – cost noted above.  Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!

 

AGENDA:  The agendas will be on the dinner table – always a lot of good INFO for you.

 

DIRECTIONS: Located in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town.  Chaparral Rd has a light.  Parking is to the rear – two large lots.  Note: best to enter from the side elevator for the 4th Floor Grille – NOT the main lobby.

 

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west. Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at 4th Floor Grille – take that elevator.  Note awning marked 4th Floor Grille on the Chaparral side.  This is the easiest way – NOT through the main lobby.  Welcome!

 

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 presenters, mentors, judges 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, new fiction, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS Tagged With: all different kinds of love, books, editing, historical fiction, Jessica McCan, novels, publishing, Scottsdale Sociiety of Women Writers, women writers, writers, writers workshop, writing speaker

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcome Lynn Wiese – PR expert and co-author

March 30, 2014 by patricia

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Welcomes Lynn Wiese Sneyd, Public Relations expert and co-author w/her client H. Alan Day

 

WHO:                          Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHAT:            Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

Camaraderie for writers and speaker/member book signings

 

 

WHERE:          Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner

Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4th Floor Grill entrance

 

WHEN:                        Wednesday – April 30th, 2014   5:30-7:30 pm

 

HOW:              PLEASE – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com   See Details Below

 

WHY:   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 businesses relating to writing, publishing, camaraderie and support.  

 

 

SPEAKER  Lynn Wiese Sneyd – April 30th:

www.lwsliteraryservices.com

www.thehorselover.com

 

Lynn Wiese Sneyd is the owner of LWS Literary Services, an agency that specializes in book publicity, book proposals, query letters, editing and ghostwriting. Most recently she co-authored The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs with H. Alan Day, who started the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary. Alan also co-authored the memoir Lazy B with his sister Sandra Day O’Connor.

 

Although publishing journeys differ, they share certain “constants.” Lynn Wiese Sneyd and H. Alan Day will join us to lend insight into what you can expect while writing, publishing, and promoting your book. Their book, The Horse Lover, published by the University of Nebraska Press, has had quite the publishing journey. Booklist is calling it “an instant classic” and Kirkus Reviews calls it a “fresh” and “lively report.”

 

 

 

See notes below for dinner fees, meeting format and location directions.  Thank you.

 

MENU:  A light dinner – salad or sandwich and soup, dessert, beverage and roll with tax and gratuity included – make your choice the night of the meeting.  

 

NEW dinner prices and NEW menu items – enjoy!

 

COST:  price increase:  members $25 and guests $28 – please RSVP early – thank you

 

CHECKS or cash:  Please make check payable to (SSWW) Scottsdale Society of Women Writers prior to coming to the meeting to save time at check-in.  Thank you for the help.

 

CHECK-IN:  Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45.  The meeting starts promptly at 6:00.  All those attending the meeting must pay for the dinner/room/speaker – cost noted above.  Pick up your name badge at the front table and ENJOY a wonderful night!

 

AGENDA:  The agendas will be on the dinner table – always a lot of good INFO for you. 

 

DIRECTIONS:  Located in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town.  Chaparral Rd has a light.  Parking is to the rear – two large lots.  Note: best to enter from the side elevator for the 4th Floor Grille – NOT the main lobby.

 

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west.  Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at 4th Floor Grille – take that elevator.  Note awning marked 4th Floor Grille on the Chaparral side.  This is the easiest way – NOT through the main lobby.  Welcome!

 

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 presenters, mentors, judges 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: books, bookselling, H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd, marketing books, novels, PR, public relations and books, publishing, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, The Horse Lover, women writers, writing

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Betty Webb – mystery writer of many novels

May 19, 2011 by patricia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Patricia L. Brooks, president, founder  

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Wishes you a Happy Summer of Writing


BETTY WEBB
www.bettywebb-mystery.com

May Speaker for Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

 

WHO:  Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHAT: Monthly Guest Speaker/Dinner Meeting

 

WHERE:  2011 LOCATION – Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd at Chaparral Rd light, NE corner. Enter off Chaparral Rd at the 4th Floor Grill entrance, take elevator, exit and turn left to the Cactus Room

 

WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30, Wed. MAY 25TH, 2011

 

WHY: 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 businesses relating to writing and publishing, and camaraderie and support.

 

HOW: PLEASE – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

 

SPEAKER:  Betty Webb www.bettywebb-mystery.com

Betty Webb, a former journalist turned mystery novelist, shares how she has turns real life cases into fiction without getting sued. She also discusses how to keep a series going after seven books, and gives tips on how to create a lead character who can carry that burden. Her bestselling mysteries include two very different series: “Desert Wives,” part of the Lena Jones mysteries; and “The Koala of Death,” one of the light-hearted Gunn Zoo mysteries.

BIO: A journalist for more than 20 years, Betty Webb interviewed U.S. presidents, astronauts who walked on the moon, and Nobel-Prize winners, as well as the homeless, the dying, and polygamy runaways. Her mystery novels have received rave reviews from the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Publishers Weekly. Betty is a member of the National Federation of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, the American Association of Zoo Keepers and the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers.

See notes below for dinner fees, new format and new location, thank you.

 

 

There are changes to the menu, the cost of the meeting, and the way you pay for your meal at the meeting. Please note all our changes (as of 2011) – thank you.

 

 

MENU: Salad, dessert, beverage and roll or a sandwich/soup, dessert, beverage and roll – both with tax and gratuity included – make a CHOICE the night of the meeting.

 

COST: $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests (able to visit twice before joining)

 

CHECKS: Please make your check payable to Scottsdale Society of Women Writers PRIOR to coming to the meeting to save time at the check-in table. Thank you.

 

 

 

CHECK-IN: Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45 at the table at the door so we can start the meeting promptly at 6:00.

(1) Leave your check made payable to SSWW,

(2) Have your name checked off the RSVP list,

(3) Pick-up your name badge – your receipt for the food server.

 

 

AGENDA: The agendas will be on the dinner table and the format remains the same.

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Fashion Square Mall – Chaparral Rd has a light. Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots – best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4th Floor Grille.

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west. Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at 4th Floor Grille and come up that elevator – it is in the center of the hotel complex. There is an awning marked 4th Floor Grille. This is the easiest way in – not through the lobby. The parking lots are in the back on the north end of the complex.

 

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 presenters, mentors, judges 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

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Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Vicki Delany – Canadian historical writer

March 13, 2011 by patricia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Patricia L. Brooks, president, founder  

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Wishes you a Happy Spring

VICKI DELANY www.vickidelany.com

Speaker for Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHO:             Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

 

WHAT:           Monthly Guest Speaker/Dinner Meeting

 

WHERE:         NEW LOCATION – Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd at Chaparral Rd light, NE corner. Enter off Chaparral Rd at the 4th Floor Grill entrance, take elevator, exit and turn left to the Cactus Room

 

WHEN:           5:30 to 7:30, Wed. March 30th , 2011  

 

WHY:  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 businesses relating to writing and publishing, and camaraderie and support.  

 

HOW:             PLEASE – RSVP now to Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

Cell 480-250-5556 or patricia@plbrooks.com

 

NOTE:  *See notes below for dinner fees, new format and new location, thank you.

 

SPEAKER:      Vicki Delany writes everything from standalone novels of psychological suspense to the Constable Molly Smith books, a traditional village/police procedural series set in the British Columbia Interior to a light-hearted historical series set in the raucous heyday of the Klondike Gold Rush.

Having taken early retirement from her job as a systems analyst in the high-pressure financial world, Vicki is settling down to the rural life in Bucolic, Prince Edward County, Ontario where she rarely wears a watch. The next book in the Constable Molly Smith series, Among the Departed, will be published by Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Press in May 2011.  Of Among the Departed, Library Journal says in a starred review:  Delany gives us a breath­taking vista, in which she places her deceptively minimalist plots. Her exceptional ability to create characters, both realistic and sometimes creepy, makes this another terrific addition to her outstanding body of work

Canadian author Vicki Delany has eight published novels to date, with the ninth to be released in May and the tenth in the fall.  She loves being a professional writer, but it’s been a long slog. Vicki began her career as a Sunday writer. As a single mother with three daughters and a full time job as a systems analyst Sunday afternoons were the only time she could find to write.   It took time and planning and determination, but she is now a full time writer who publishes two books a year from two different publishers.  She moved from the city to the simple life on a small property in rural Ontario, Canada, and says that she is now living her dream.  Vicki will talk about what it took to get her there, how she maintains the simple writers’ life, and offers advice to those of you still struggling to find the time and energy to pursue your own passion.  

Vicki Delany

Negative Image, From Poisoned Pen Press

It’s a crime not to read Delany.” London Free Press

Gold Fever: A Klondike Mystery, From Rendezvous Crime

www.vickidelany.com

Find me on Facebook and twitter @vickidelany

 

*There are changes to the menu and the cost of the meeting, and the way you pay for your meal at the meeting.  Please note all our changes below.

 

MENU:  Salad, dessert, beverage and roll or a sandwich/soup, dessert, beverage and roll – both with tax and gratuity included – make a CHOICE the night of the meeting.

 

COST:  $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests (able to visit twice before joining) 

 

CHECKS:  Please make your check payable to Scottsdale Society of Women Writers PRIOR to coming to the meeting to save time at the check-in table.  Thank you.

 

CHECK-IN:  Please check-in between 5:00 and 5:45 at the table at the door so we can start the meeting promptly at 6:00. 

(1) Leave your check made payable to SSWW, (2) Have your name checked off the RSVP list, (3) Pick-up your name badge – your receipt for the food server.

 

AGENDA:  The agendas will be on the dinner table and the format remains the same. 

 

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Fashion Square Mall – Chaparral Rd has a light.  Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots – best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4th Floor Grille.

 

From the 101 freeway exit Chaparral Rd and go west.  Just prior to Scottsdale Rd enter the side drive at 4th Floor Grille and come up that elevator – it is in the center of the hotel complex.  There is an awning marked 4th Floor Grille.  This is the easiest way in – not through the lobby.  The parking lots are in the back on the north end of the complex. 

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