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Making Memorable Memoirs MagicalWorskhop and Book Signing Saturday September 18, 2010 Time: 10:00 to 12:00 noon Workshop – Making Memorable Memoirs Magical Patricia L. Brooks, author, speaker, publishing consultant Book Gifts of Sisterhood Book signing and workshop The Well Red Coyote Bookstore, and the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers, of which Patricia is president and founder, continue their speaker series with Patricia’s talk on memoir writing. Her workshop, Making Memorable Memoirs Magical, will feature her first memoir Gifts of Sisterhood in the discussion. Do you understand that writing a memoir is an integrating experience that can lead to one’s wholeness? Do you want to learn what memoir writing is, what the memoir story can mean and what significance it has in our lives? If your answers are all a yes, then join us in the Red Rocks of Sedona for this inspiring two hour workshop. You will come away with a lot of valuable information you can use immediately. Patricia takes you down the path to writing Compelling Memoir. The journey is fresh and uplifting in its account of how to prepare to “dig deep” and trust your judgment. Her perspective on what to do to start learning Retrospective Writing is both generous and worth noting. Patricia shares her inspirational portrait of the characters you want to develop – especially you the hero, the protagonist. Taking the theme you desire to produce your final manuscript, this author will show how to go from Point A to Point B to Point C, the desire and struggle and realization of your life. She offers you wit, courage and faith by giving up tips and techniques to help find the “emotional beats” in your life’s events. Her insight into a philosophy of writing life worth emulating inspires attendees regardless of the challenges to launch readable memoir. 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. She is owner of P. L. Seminars, LLC (www.plbrooks.com), Brooks Goldmann Publishing Co., LLC, (www.brooksgoldmannpublishing.com) She has resided in Arizona for over 30 years and has been active in the business and academic 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. Patricia will be signing books at this event - Gifts of Sisterhood, a memoir. FREE chapters are available on www.plbrooks.com For more Information: Please RSVP to Kris Neri at the store www.wellredcoyote.com 928-282-2284 store http://www.patriciabrooks.com Location Information: The Well Red Coyote Bookstore 3190 W. Hwy 89A, Suite 400 Sedona 86336 - [View Mapquest Map] Directions: The Well Red Coyote is located at: 3190 W. Highway 89A (at Dry Creek Road in West Sedona) Suite #400 (behind D'Lish Restaurant) Sedona, AZ 86336 Telephone numbers: (928) 282-2284 (866) 282-9291 Our hours are: Monday - Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm Sunday: 12 noon - 5 pm (Except for evenings when we schedule 7 pm author events. Then we stay open until the event is over, usually 8:30 - 9:00 pm.) |