Tag Archive | Brenda Whiteside
February 10, 2025  

APW Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 2/19/25 with Brenda Whiteside

Connie Cockrell is inviting you to the APW Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 2/19/25 with Brenda Whiteside

Topic: Brenda Whiteside will speak on using Book Funnel, a platform that lets authors reach readers through giveaways and book bundles for marketing.
Date: Wednesday February 19, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
Location: Majestic Rim Living Retirement Home in Payson. Meet in the chapel off of the mail lobby
or attend on Zoom:
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Bio:

Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She writes children’s books with her granddaughter under the names of Brenda Sue and Sadi Belle. She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets her fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. She and her husband live in Central Arizona. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.

To receive special offers, news about her latest books, and to be eligible for quarterly and year-end gifts that only members of BNG receive, join Brenda’s Newsletter Group.

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Brenda is a prolific writer. Two of her more recent titles:

 

September 12, 2024  

President’s message September 2024

Greetings and salutations!

In the early Roman calendar, September was the seventh month. By that reckoning, I am ten months ahead instead of sprinting from two months behind, trying to catch up to a deadline.

I participated in a writing sprint contest last week with one prompt per round, then five minutes to write a story that left the reader wanting more. The genre was up to the participants. The host played electronic music in the background with a distracting beat – so much so to me that it infiltrated one of my stories. We had 90 seconds to read our stories to the group before a vote via Survey Monkey. Unused writing muscles flexed? Check. Challenge accepted. Endorphins triggered.

Participants seemed to be:

  • Extremely good at using dictation to process their authorly thoughts, or
  • Possessed nimble keyboarding skills well above 60wpm, or
  • Had programmed their AI services to write from prompts – we could/should have a discourse about AI, but I will leave that for another time.

I was the only participant who wrote a rhyme and the only one who took one of the prompts literally. Color me surprised that my rhyme-on-the-spot and taking ellipses at face value, dot dot dot, earned me unexpected entrance to the next round as a runner-up.

Whether you are sprinting to catch up to a deadline or sprinting to finish your writing project I hope you enjoy the journey and stretch a less oft’ used writing muscle along the way.

Carol Baxter, APW President

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August 14, 2024  

APW Book Club 9/28 with Brenda Whiteside

Karen Lateiner is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. For our September selection, we will be reading MacKenzie Chronicles, Secrets of The Ravine by Brenda Whiteside.

Date: Saturday, September 28
Time: 10 a.m. AZ
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MacKenzie Chronicles, Secrets of The Ravine
Lies can haunt, but the truth will kill. Magpie MacKenzie doesn’t believe in coincidence. But when a ringer for her long-dead love walks into her life the same day skeletal remains are unearthed, she’s convinced the universe is sending her a message. Fearing her father will be accused of the crime, Magpie will do whatever it takes to find the truth. Even risk her heart on this familiar stranger who may hold critical clues to the unsolved mystery. While visiting purportedly haunted Joshua, Arizona lawyer Zac Peartree is instantly drawn to the free-wheeling shopkeeper. His attraction propels him on a collision course between past and present where digging up secrets could prove fatal. Using decades-old clues and Zac’s déjà vu moments, the couple embark on a treacherous race to prove her father’s innocence before Magpie becomes the next victim. Can they save her from a murderous fate, or will love be the final casualty?

See you there,
Karen

Secrets of the Ravine is available on Kindle Unlimited for free or in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ravine-MacKenzie-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B08GPRFJBT/ref=sr_1_1

May 14, 2024  

APW Book Club 5/25 Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder – Brenda Whiteside

The May selection for the APW Book Club is Brenda Whiteside’s new release Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder. We will be discussing it on Saturday May 25 at 10 a.m. on Zoom

Karen Lateiner is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: APW Book Club 5/25 Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder – Brenda Whiteside
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2024
Time:10:00 AM Arizona
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Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder

It’s a birthday weekend with the gift of murder. Recently widowed, Emma Banefield looks forward to a getaway birthday weekend with her free-wheeling sister, Nicole Earp, sipping chocolate martinis at the peaceful, historic Dulce Inn. When a rude stranger, a nasty food critic, and a madhouse of temperamental artists greet them, all hope for a tranquil weekend evaporates faster than dew on a hot desert morning. Overlooking the riotous atmosphere is doubly hard after Em discovers the body of a hotel guest, and a second murder affects Nic personally. Now, entrenched in a caper that pits them against a surly detective, they cozy up to a hotel staff hiding dangerous secrets to uncover clues to the killer. Using their smarts and love of all-things mystery, will the Chocolate Martini Sisters solve the crime ahead of the obstinate Chief Detective or find themselves trapped in the middle of a third murder?
Amazon Series Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BQ9T7ZBX

Bio:
Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She writes children’s books with her granddaughter under the names of Brenda Sue and Sadi Belle. She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets her fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. After marrying, she and her husband lived in six states and two countries, but a few years back they settled in Central Arizona. They admit to being gypsies at heart so won’t discount the possibility of another move. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.

 

April 10, 2024  

APW Rim Country Chapter Hybrid meeting w Brenda Whiteside

Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom and in-person meeting.

Topic: Brenda Whiteside – The Big “O”: Let’s Get Organized!
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
In-person: Majestic Rim Living Community on E. Tyler Parkway next to the community garden. We’ll be in the chapel, just inside the lobby on the right side of the lobby.
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Join us as Brenda Whiteside talks about The Big “O”: Let’s Get Organized!

Getting organized before you type the first word in your new manuscript will save you frustration and time in both your writing career and personal life. Build your foundation first. Brenda will offer up tips, examples and samples, advice, and the tools to make your writing day flow easier and faster.

Bio: Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of romantic suspense, cozy mystery, and romance. She writes children’s books with her granddaughter under the names of Brenda Sue and Sadi Belle. The secret to being a prolific published author is getting organized.

She’s a born and bred Arizona native who sets her fictional stories in imaginary, but recognizable, Arizona locations. After marrying, she and her husband lived in six states and two countries, but a few years back they settled in Central Arizona. They admit to being gypsies at heart so won’t discount the possibility of another move. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.

Brenda’s website is BrendaWhiteside.com

May 17, 2021  

2021 At-Large Communications Contest winners

NFPW listed all the state and at-large contest winners on their website. National level winners will be announced at the conference in a few weeks. Here are the At-Large contest winners again, in case we missed any! It’s amazing that out of 10 At-Large states Arizona writers won this many awards.
NFPW At-Large 2021 Commnications Contest winners covering 10 States
Anderson, Susan, Maricopa-Honorable mention Books, Short Stories, Verse – Children’s Book – Fiction, Everything
Beeaff, Dianne Tucson- First place -Collection of short stories written by entrant, On Traigh Lar Beach
Brown, Wynne, Tucson -First place Newsletter Web and Social Media – Electronic Newsletter – Personal, “The Sara Lemmon Project”
Cockrell, Connie, Payson – Honorable mention -short stories, single story, “Creature in the Night”
Fasano Marie, Payson –
  • Second place -Columns, general, Roaming the Rim Column – “WHO designates 2020 as Year of the Nurse and Midwife”
  • Honorable mention -Feature story, Print based newspaper, “Homeless Give Back “
Graber, Brad, Phoenix -First place essay, chapter or section of a book, What’s That Growing in My Sour Cream? Observations on Modern Life
MacDonald, Marylee, Tempe —
  • Third Place- Autobiograpy or Memoir, Surrender
  • Second Place-Collection of short stories written by entrant (published together in book form, including electronic books) Body Language
  • Honorable Mention Nonfiction Book for Adult Readers – General Nonficton, The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers
Sharpe, Jody, Scottsdale – Second place- Books, Short Stories, Verse – Nonfiction Book for Adult Readers Autobiography or Memoir, r Special Needs Children, The Angels On My Shoulder
Whiteside, Brenda, Tonto Basin – Third place, fiction for adult readers, Secrets of The Ravine (The Mackenzie Chronicles Book One)
March 20, 2021  

Congratulations to Brenda Whiteside!

Brenda Whiteside’s Secrets of the Ravine (The MacKenzie Chronicles, Book 1) was awarded third place in the category Novel, over 40,000 words in the NFPW At-Large Communication Contest. Brenda is a multi-published romantic suspense author and also provides editing services to other writers.

September 10, 2019  

September 11 Rim Country Chapter meeting

The Arizona Professional Writers Rim Country Chapter monthly meeting will be held Wednesday,  1:00 p.m. September 11, 2019 at the Majestic Rim Retirement Home on Tyler Parkway in Payson. We welcome members and guests.
 

Brenda Whiteside

The speaker, Brenda Whiteside, is the author of suspenseful, action-adventure romance who writes stories of discovery and love entangled with suspense.

 
What is a suspense novel? Reviewers get it wrong. On-line articles group suspense in with mystery. It might not be important for a reader to know the difference between mystery and suspense, but it’s important for the author. Readers are drawn to certain authors and certain stories, and they might not be able to tell you why. But it’s important for the author to nail down their genre, especially in a series, so the reader knows what to expect. Brenda will cover the differences and share her half-dozen tips on how to approach writing a suspense novel.
 
Join us on September 11.