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Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Bhira Backhaus – award winning author, conference facilitator, university professor

February 11, 2014 by Patricia Brooks

BhiraBackhausUTLT-Yellow1SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

 

Welcomes Bhira Backhaus

Arizona State University creative writing professor

award winning author and workshop facilitator

Virginia G. Piper Creative Writing Center

 

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 – Feb 26th, 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   Bhira Backhaus 

Bhira Backhaus is the author of the novel Under the Lemon Trees (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press). Her work has also appeared in Best New American Voices 2005 and The New York Times. She received her MFA in creative writing at Arizona State University and currently teaches writing courses at the Tempe campus.

 

Presentation

The writer Flannery O’Connor believed that anyone who has survived childhood has enough to write about for the rest of her life. While writing a memoir offers the advantage of rendering events that one “can’t make up” this presentation will focus on the creative opportunities and satisfaction that fiction can offer to those who want to explore their personal experiences through writing.

Bhira.backhaus@facebook.com

 

 

 

 

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: Bhira Backhaus, books, creative writing, memoirs, SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS, Under the Lemon Trees, women writers, workshops, writing, writing conferences

DO YOU NEED A SPEAKER for your meeting or conference?

January 17, 2009 by Patricia Brooks

 

                 

DO YOU NEED A SPEAKER for your meeting or conference?  Do you need someone to talk about the Journey of Writing or the Self-Publishing Process or the Marketing of You and Your Book?

 

SPEAKER’S INFORMATION

 

 

Today’s date:  January 16, 2009

 

  1. Presenter/Author’s  name:             Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM
    1. speaker, author, publishing consultant, faculty            
    2. www.plbrooks.com
  2. Brooks Goldmann Publishing, LLC  www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com
  3. Phone:  480-250-5556
  4. Presenter’s Email:
    1. patricia@plbrooks.com
    2.  info@brooksgoldmannpublishing.com
  5. BLOG:  https://brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

  1. BOOK – GIFTS OF SISTERHOOD – a journey on to your own
  2. Retail Price:  $15.95 w/current publisher plus shipping and tax
    1. $15.95 plus shipping and tax or less at www.Amazon.com 
    2. Free chapters available on www.plbrooks.com
    3. ISBN:  #1-4208-1875-9
    4. Current book title:  Gifts of Sisterhood – a journey on to your own
    5. Fiction/Non-fiction – Memoir/non-fiction
    6. Part one of three planned – two others in the works now
    7. Discounted price, if any:  $15.00 event price – tax included/signed copy

 

  1. Other books BGP has authored/produced:
    1. FINISHED May – 2008
    2. Discover the Secret Energized You  – author, K. Buckley
    3. See Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company page on www.azbkpub.org
    4. ISBN #9-780981-788104
    5. See www.discoverthesecretenergizedyou.com
    1. FINISHED Jan – 2009 – Gratitude a Verb
    2. Meditation Book by M. Lyding
    3. ISBN#9-780981-7881-1-1
    4. See www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

 

  1.  Background/Credentials/Honors and Awards:

·         Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM is an author, conference speaker, publishing consultant and university faculty. 

·         She is president and founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, and an active member of the AZ Authors Association and the AZ Book Publishers Association. 

·         She is the published author of Gifts of Sisterhood, an AZ Authors Association Literary Award winner for 2006. 

·         She is currently working on two other books to finish her Gift series.  One is a self-help/memoir about her survival twice from violent crime.  It focuses on her thriving in recovery from PTSD and her faith journey.  The other addresses the issues of inheriting the Alzheimer’s gene from a parent and how to address the loss of a mother to this disease.

·          She holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Management and teaches occasionally at Arizona State University in Marketing.

·         She is president/founder of P. L. Brooks Seminars, LLC (since 1996) and Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC (since 2007).

·         Patricia is currently consulting aspiring authors as their “book shepherd” to bring their books forward to a successful publication and speaking on a regular basis.

 

 

  1.   Description of the Gifts of Sisterhood book’s contents. 

 

“We give and receive gifts, but the gifts that keep on giving – Faith Courage, Love, Friendship, Happiness, Acceptance – to name a few – are the gifts my sister gave so freely.  Too often it takes a life changing experience to recognize what we already have, affirm what we already know, welcome what is given to us and share it with others.” 

 

Patricia’s first book, Gifts of Sisterhood, is an inspirational portrait of a relationship of two sisters who were friends, confidants and soul mates. The book shows wit, courage and faith during times of need and challenge, as well as insight into a philosophy of life worth emulating by inspiring you to write about your gifts.  Patricia takes you from the Mackinac area of Michigan, where they grew up in small town Americana, to their roots in County Tipperary, Ireland.  The journey is fresh and uplifting, moving and generous in its account of this sister’s perspective of a life worth remembering, and of the words her sister lived by.

 

 

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