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SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

January 5, 2023 by brooksadmin

WOMEN WRITERS WELCOME AUTHOR AND COACH RENEE SIEGEL

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Renee Siegel, MA, LISAC, MAC
An Author of Non-fiction, a Counselor and Personal Coach
Founder of U R Pure Potential

WHO: ALL women writers!

WHY: Mission: 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 in camaraderie and support, and an alliance with professionals relating to writing, publishing, and marketing.

WHAT: SPEAKER RENEE SIEGEL will be ready to help us prepare to move on from the pandemic’s trauma and go deeper into our writing!

“Reclaiming YOU”
Addressing Trauma with the Enneagram https://www.urpurepotential.com

Renée Siegel has been a counselor and coach for over 40 years. While the pandemic raged, she and a colleague found a way to help many who were struggling. They co-authored a book about trauma, called “Reclaiming YOU,” released on October 25, 2022.
“We started out crafting this book to help others. In the process, the book, helped me, my family and friends. We were all going through things that were out of the ordinary, and sometimes traumatic,” says Siegel.

This is Renée’s third book, others are “Lost and Found” and “Considering the Enneagram.” Renée is currently writing her first children’s book, hopefully to be released sometime next year!
“You may find yourself wondering if you have challenges, stress, and/or trauma in your life. Hopefully, after we meet you will be able to distinguish what the differences are and come away with some ideas and coping strategies for 2023,” says Siegel.

“Reclaiming YOU” is filled with information to help you better understand trauma. Real people gave permission to the authors to share their stories, including their resilience. Finally, Renee and her co-author compiled several strategies people use to manage and move through trauma based on their personality type.

WHEN: WED JANUARY 25th 6:00 pm at our new IN PERSON location at the Panera Bread at Gainey Village, Scottsdale, 8777 N. Scottsdale Road, #302.

Please RSVP AND PAY on my PayPal at [email protected] $20.00 each and confirm via email you will attend via text 480-250-5556 or email [email protected] NO PAYMENT AT THE DOOR: the $20 on PayPal is due by Sun PM 1/22/23. Thank you for your cooperation.

GUESTS: If you have a guest, please notify Patricia, the host, and have them contact her directly. Guests may visit on two occasions, and then we ask they join as a member.

PRICING: THE COST OF THE MEETING ($20.00) covers the food, the room and the speaker’s honorarium. The menu will consist of sandwich choices, salad choices, chips, cookies and a variety of beverages. Please consider purchasing a book from the speaker as an additional gesture of support. We thank you!

DUES: Dues are $50 annually. Upon joining, you receive a copy of the directory, the monthly newsletter and member support and camaraderie at all SSWW events, plus a plethora of professional speakers. Contact me for the form and pay on PayPal or mail to me – use [email protected] for my PayPal or text me at 480-250-5556 for my mailing address. The membership form will be emailed to you. Thank you

CHECK-IN: Please be on time and check-in to the restaurant between 5:15 and 5:30 pm. This allows you time to chat with members and guests, go through the buffet line and settle in for the meeting. The SSWW meeting starts promptly at 6:00 pm AZ Time (currently MST) NO PAYMENTS for the evening are accepted at the door and ALL those attending must RSVP at least three days in advance of the meeting and pay by that time. Thank you for allowing us to begin our new adventure with this venue.

Goals of the Group

• Value all the professional women writers sharing 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

WRITE A MEMOIR TO REMEMBER

March 4, 2021 by brooksadmin

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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] or 480-250-5556 text/cell.

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Stella Pope Duarte

May 16, 2017 by pbrooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Stella Pope Duarte

Award-winning Author, Educator, Community Activist

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting

WHEN: WED May 31^st, 2017 5:30 -7:30 pm*

WHERE: Starfire Golf Club – new venue as of January 2017

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.

*Please – RSVP in advance – by noon the Friday before the meeting, no later!

Patricia L. Brooks, president/founder

[email protected]

See guests pay in advance information below.

Thank you

6:45 speaker – STELLA POPE DUARTE, award-winning author, educator and community activist

Acclaimed author, Stella Pope Duarte, is described by reviewers as a “magical weaver with a sure hand and a pure heart,” and as an author who “will enlarge humanity.” Her literary awards include a 2009 American Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a Book Sense 76 Selection. She believes that writing, like love, begins within, or it doesn’t start at all.

Embracing someone else’s life is one of the most challenging things a writer can do. Biographical writing is precise and goal oriented, yet soul-searching and rich with anecdotes and stories that reveal the layers of another’s life. Weaving thousands of elements together to get at the heart of a story is a daunting task, but there is an internal road map to follow, and the light at the end of the tunnel comes through trusting yourself from first page to last.

www.stellapopeduarte.com

See notes below – NEW pricing and other changes as of January 1, 2017, for dinner fees, guest policy and location directions. Thank you

NEW PRICES: $30 for members and guests. Cash or check at the door.

RSVP before noon the Friday morning before the meeting. The Starfire Golf Club needs to order food, and I must give a guarantee to them at that time. That is the confirmed deadline for an RSVP!

GUESTS pay in advance by the Wednesday before the meeting! I must have their check in hand before making their reservation, no exceptions, unless YOU will guarantee for them.

Again, the deadline is noted above. Thank you.

CANCELLATION: If you do not attend the meeting, and do not cancel by noon the Friday prior to the meeting you will be billed for the dinner. This is due to many no-shows in 2016.

Thank you for appreciating my contract with the Starfire Golf Club.

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

CHECK-IN: Please check-in between 5:15 and 5:45 to begin the buffet that is available at 5:45 The meeting 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!

AGENDA: The agendas will be on the dinner table with a lot of wonderful information for you. They also include the schedule of upcoming meeting speakers.

DIRECTIONS: From the 101-freeway exit Shea Blvd and go West to Hayden Road and then North a short distance, the club is on the West side of the street. From the South, cross Shea Blvd going north on Hayden Road, again, it is on the West side of the street.

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

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS – welcomes Barbara McNichol, editing expert

August 13, 2014 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Barbara McNichol,- editing expert

TIGHTEN YOUR WRITING AND OTHER SELF EDITING TECHNIQUES

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Barbara McNichol

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 – 4^th Floor Grill entrance

WHEN: WED August 27^th , 2014 at 5:30-7:30 pm

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected]

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: Barbara McNichol – Tighten Your Writing and Other Self-Editing Techniques You enjoy the creative process of writing and telling poignant stories. You think you’ve “nailed it” beautifully—until you sit down and reread your latest draft. Not so great after all. It’s now time to polish it until it shines.

But when it comes to perfecting your own writing, do you know what to look for? Think like an editor and revise your own work just as a pro would do.

In this skill-building session, expert editor Barbara McNichol shows how to improve EVERYTHING you write—from emails to blog posts to book chapters. You’ll apply proven writing/editing techniques to help you:

Tighten and brighten your writing
Proofread and punctuate with fresh eyes
Avoid choosing the wrong words and blemishing your reputation.

Come to this fun, interactive session to capture practical skills you’ll use forever.

Barbara McNichol’s passion is helping people write clearly, concisely, and correctly. She shows how to say what you want to convey with confidence. How? Through Wordshops that help participants write effective emails, whack wordiness, and match words with their correct meanings. This editor of 300+ nonfiction books has created a word choice guide called Word Trippers and puts out two ezines: “Word Tripper of the Week” and “Add Power to Your Pen.” All point out the little nitty things that will make a big difference in your ability to write well.

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 1^st 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 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 4^th 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 4^th Floor Grille – take that elevator. Note awning marked 4^th 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

Desert Foothills Library welcomes Patricia L. Brooks and Publish Yourself as the Expert

November 24, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

DESERT FOOTHILLS

LIBRARY EVENT

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

Publish Yourself as the Expert

January 3, 2014 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Desert Foothills Library 38443 No. School House Rd

Cave Creek, AZ Please RSVP 480-488-2286

Patricia leads 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 or your business, your life or your quest.

Her perspective is generous and worth noting as she helps you achieve these Outcomes:

(1) Understand what moves you

(2) Honor your personal mission

(3) Respect those for whom you need to be a voice.

Part One/A Winning Writing Plan. Patricia gives you Tips on developing goals, objectives and strategies for your writing life. Her philosophy is worth emulating. She motivates you to launch your vision for success by being well organized and prepared in your writing. With a timeline that is proven and ideas that work, she also extends to you the five W’s of reporting good information for a non-fiction publication and illustrates how to write well to communicate your message to your niche.
Part Two/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 insight is behind the book, she encourages you to eventually understand yourself completely. She wants you to be honest about how committed you are to write this book and how willing you are to doing a follow-up plan. She expects you to ask yourself why you feel compelled to write what you want to produce, and why you believe you are the expert.

BIO – Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

Patricia is the president/founder of the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers – building the group to 75 women over the past 8 years. She is working on her second non-fiction book; a memoir/self-help entitled Captive No More – trauma, recovery and PTS- due out in 2014. She is available for talks on Stop the Violence Against Women.

With her first non-fiction/memoir and eBook, Gifts of Sisterhood – Journey from Grief to Gratitude, she presents workshops on both writing memoir and dealing with grief. Patricia earned a prestigious AZ Authors Association Literary Contest Non-fiction award for this book. www.plbrooks.com,

As founder of Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC, Patricia is a book shepherd and partner in publishing consultation. Her mission is to enhance the spirit of the author’s journey. She is available to speak here on writing, publishing and marketing related topics for those in the writing life. www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

CREDENTIALS:

*University faculty associate for over twelve years, Arizona State University

*Masters Degree in Organizational Management

*The Advanced Toastmasters designation

*Named to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers

MEMBERSHIPS:

President and Founder – Scottsdale Society Women Writers

Member of the Arizona Authors Association

Member of the Phoenix Writers Club

Patricia L. Brooks, MAOM

480-250-5556 cell phone

[email protected] email

Patricia L. Brooks Seminars, LLC

www.plbrooks.com

Brooks Goldmann Publishing Company, LLC

Scottsdale, AZ 85251

www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Dr. Stanlie James – Author and Director of African American Studies – School of Transformation – Arizona State University

November 10, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Welcomes Dr. Stanlie James, Director of African American Studies

School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

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 – 4^th Floor Grill entrance

WHEN: Wednesday – NOV 20^th, 2013 5:30-7:30 pm

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

SPEAKER Dr. Stanlie James is a professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She has a joint appointment to the African and African American Studies Program and to the Women and Gender Studies Program.

Her areas of expertise include Women’s International Human Rights and Black Feminisms. She has a M.A. and Ph.D. from the former Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver; a M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London; and a BA from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the co-editor of three anthologies: Theorizing Black Feminism: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women with Abena P.A. Busia; Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood: Disputing U.S. Polemics with Claire Robertson; and Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women’s Studies with Frances Smith Foster and Beverly Guy Sheftall.

Currently she is at work on a new manuscript tentatively entitled “Goler’s Daughters: Black Women and International Human Rights”. The book explores the endeavors of African American and African women who are engaged in the praxis of thinking through the meaning of international human rights and developing the strategies to implement them.

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.

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

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

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes Sabrina Gibson – social media guru

October 19, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY

OF WOMEN WRITERS

SSWW Welcomes Sabrina Gibson

Social Media specialist

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting-camaraderie for writers/book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: Wednesday – OCT 30^th, 2013 5:30-7:30

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

SPEAKER Sabrina Gibson, one of the nation’s Social Media leaders, has trained thousands of business professionals across the globe helping them leverage Social Media and immediately increase their sales in 90 days or less. Her simple marketing solutions and “back to basics” methods have helped professionals create a recognizable brand, drive massive traffic and established them as industry experts.

Sabrina is the Founder and partner of Great Social Media Agency, an interactive digital marketing company and a full service Social Media Agency. The company offers affordable “done for you” Social Media packages that helps companies dominate their local area, substantially increase targeted traffic to the business, increase the number of qualified leads and drives new customers.

Sabrina is the author of the book “From Zero to Million Dollar Sales” which gives users a simple step by step process to effortlessly grow their business.

*Learn 4 simple Social Media tips that will get you results faster in Social Media and *Prevent making some of the most damaging Social Networking “No No’s” and *Maximize the amount of time you invest in online networking in just one hour a day and *Learn how to become the “ROCKSTAR” of your expertise and *Leverage being an author into exposure, leads for your business and new clients

SABRINA’S Websites: www.GreatSocialMediaAgency.com and www.SocialMaximizing.com

Social Media: www.twitter.com/sabrinagibson and www.facebook.com/sabrinagibson

www.Linkedin.com/in/sabrinagibson and www.pinterest.com/sabrinagibson

www.youtube.com/sabrinagibson1

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 this month 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.

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

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

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers CELEBRATES 8th Anniversary and welcomes Brenda Warneka – author, editor and expert on anthologies

September 14, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

Celebrating 8 years this month!

SSWW Welcomes Brenda Warneka, AZ Press Women member, author, editor and specialist on anthologies

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting – camaraderie, information for writers and book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: Thursday SEPT 26^th, 2013 5:30-7:30 – special meeting date

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

SPEAKER SEPT 26^t^h Thursday – special date/one time only

Brenda Warneka, author, member of AZ Press Women, president of NFPW www.thefatesite.com and www.skirtingtraditions.com

Brenda Warneka will speak about the process of assembling anthologies—from the original idea to the completed product. Warneka was the project leader, overseeing the work of 18 members of Arizona Press Women, for the award-winning APW anthology, Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writers and Journalists 1912-2012. She is also a co-editor and co-writer of two other anthologies.

Brenda Warneka is an editor and writer of non-fiction. She has a BA in history from Oakland University, Rochester, MI, and a law degree from Wayne State University. She is the immediate past president of Arizona Press Women; a member of Scribes, the American Society for Legal Writers; and a member of the State Bar of Arizona.

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: $22 for members – $25 for guests SEPT ONLY– PLEASE RSVP. Thank you.

NOTE: price increase: October 30^th meeting – members $25 and guests $28

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.

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

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

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers and Sarah McLean, author/meditation teacher

July 25, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

SSWW Welcomes Sarah McLean, Author and Meditation Teacher

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting – speaker and book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: August 28^th, 2013 – Wed. 5:30-7:30

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected] See Details Below

SPEAKER: Sarah McLean is the go-to teacher for contemporary meditation. She’s the best-selling author of Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation (Hay House) and a dynamic speaker who inspires thousands to find their personal power, radiance, and inner peace. After years immersed in various wisdom and living in India and a Zen Buddhist Monastery, and her years of work with modern thought-leaders, Deepak Chopra, Byron Katie and Gary Zukav, Sarah founded and directs the McLean Meditation Institute (MMI).

Sarah has been featured in the New York Times, Prevention Magazine, Organic Spa, The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Unity Magazine, Daily Word and on Fox Health News. Her newest book, Love & the Power of Attention (Hay House) is being released in 2014. For more information on her work, visit www.McLeanMeditation.com. For a free excerpt of her book Soul-Centered, visit this site: www.Soul-Centered.com

Soul-Centered: Looking for happiness, fulfillment, and a little inspiration? Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation will help you to find just that. Sarah McLean wrote this book to make meditation simple and easy for you.

Sarah traveled around the world to find the best and most authentic meditation practices. You don’t have to travel to dive into meditation, but you will enjoy her stories about her meditation journey – meditating in temples in Japan, living and chanting in an ashram in India, and being a head cook in a Zen Buddhist monastery in the wilderness – a journey that took her around the world and totally transformed her life.

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: $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests – PLEASE RSVP. Thank you.

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

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

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town. Chaparral Rd has a light. Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots.

Note: best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4^th Floor Grille – not from the main entrance.

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

Scottsdale Society of Women Writers welcomes author/historian Lisa Schnebly Heidinger

July 16, 2013 by Patricia Brooks

SCOTTSDALE SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS

SSWW Welcomes Lisa Schnebly Heidinger

Arizona Historian

WHO: Scottsdale Society of Women Writers

WHAT: Monthly Speaker/Dinner Meeting – speaker and book signing*

WHERE: Chaparral Suites Resort, 5001 N, Scottsdale Rd. NE corner – Enter off Chaparral Rd – 4^th Floor Grill entrance, then left to the Cactus Room

WHEN: July 31^st , 2013 – Wed. 5:30-7:30

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

Cell 480-250-5556 or [email protected]

See Details Below

SPEAKER: July 31^st Wed Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, author, historian

[email protected] AZ Historical Advisory Council

It was the book that almost wasn’t.

While Arizona’s Centennial, book, “Arizona: 100 Years Grand” by Lisa Schnebly Heidinger ended up being voted OneBookAZ and selling thousands of copies, it was not only rejected – but accepted and then rejected again.

The author will share the story of “the little book that could” and some stories from the book at the July meeting.

Lisa Schnebly Heidinger has been telling Arizona stories for more than 30 years: from being a cub reporter for the Green Valley News in 1979 through reporting for KTVK-TV3 in Northern Arizona. She’s now working on her 8th book. (And yes, that Schnebly: Sedona Schnebly was her great-grandmother.)

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: $22.00 for members – $25.00 for guests – PLEASE RSVP. Thank you.

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

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

DIRECTIONS: Chaparral Suites is in Scottsdale at Chaparral Rd just north of Old Town. Chaparral Rd has a light. Parking is in the rear – two large parking lots.

Note: best to enter from the middle elevator for the 4^th Floor Grille – not from the main entrance.

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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