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Matilda Butler

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MATILDA BUTLER, award-winning co-author of the collective memoir ROSIE'S DAUGHTERS: THE "FIRST WOMAN TO" GENERATION TELLS ITS STORY (now in Second Edition), WRITING ALCHEMY: HOW TO WRITE FAST AND DEEP, and other books, is a psychologist, memoir coach, and writing conference speaker.

Her recent series of four anthologies: SEASONS OF OUR LIVES (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) were Amazon ebook bestsellers (ranked #2, #3, #4, #5 in Writing Skills and in the mid-#20s for memoir) for the first week of their release and stayed on the Top 100 Bestseller list for one month. These four volumes share women's award-winning stories as well as advice on how to use each of them to improve your own writing. In this way, the anthologies provide insights fo MATILDA BUTLER, award-winning co-author of the collective memoir ROSIE'S DAUGHTERS: THE "FIRST WOMAN TO" GENERATION TELLS ITS STORY (now in Second Edition), WRITING ALCHEMY: HOW TO WRITE FAST AND DEEP, and other books, is a psychologist, memoir coach, and writing conference speaker.

Her recent series of four anthologies: SEASONS OF OUR LIVES (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) were Amazon ebook bestsellers (ranked #2, #3, #4, #5 in Writing Skills and in the mid-#20s for memoir) for the first week of their release and stayed on the Top 100 Bestseller list for one month. These four volumes share women's award-winning stories as well as advice on how to use each of them to improve your own writing. In this way, the anthologies provide insights for readers and advice for memoir writers. Each is capped with a Takeaway designed to help readers become better memoir writers.

SEASONS OF OUR LIVES won the following 9 book awards: Next Generation Indie (First Place in Women's Issues); eLit Award (Silver in Anthology AND Bronze in Women's Issues); Los Angeles Book Festival (First Place in Anthology); Northwest Book Festival (Honorable Mention in Anthology); San Francisco Book Festival (Runner-Up in Compilations/Anthologies); New York Book Festival (Runner-Up in Compilations/Anthologies); Dan Poynter's Global eBook Awards (Gold in Writing/Publishing Non-Fiction AND Silver in Anthology)

ROSIE'S DAUGHTERS won a 2008 IPPY National Book Award, a 2010 Indie Excellence Award, and a 2010 San Francisco Book Festival Award.

ROSIE'S DAUGHTERS led Butler to begin teaching memoir writing. After years of workshops, she (along with Kendra Bonnett) wrote WRITING ALCHEMY to bring their revolutionary writing technique to a broader audience. (WRITING ALCHEMY won the 2013 Best Nonfiction Book award with OWFI, an Honorable Mention from the New England Book Awards, and a Finalist award from the Next Generation Indie Book Award.)

Butler writes and teaches in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and says, "My passion is helping women create a legacy of their experiences through writing their life stories in ways that engage the reader.

BACKGROUND
 In a career spanning more than 50 years, Matilda Butler has focused on business and professional women's issues while working to create, aggregate and distribute information via digital and traditional publishing media.

During her seven years of teaching and research at Stanford University, she established and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women for both the Association for Education in Journalism and for the International Communication Association-thus helping to build awareness and open doors to more women. She went on to create and direct the national information clearinghouse, Women's Educational Equity Communication Network (1977-1982).

In 1985, Butler co-founded Knowledge Access International, a software company specializing in CD-ROM products. Among its clients were the World Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, Pacific Bell, McGraw-Hill, Pfizer, 3M and the US Departments of Labor and Agriculture. Butler served as president until 1997 when she sold Knowledge Access to a large publicly traded company.

From 1992 to 1996, when companies large and small were discovering the Internet, Butler was a director of the Information Industry Association (IIA), serving on the Executive Committee of the Board for three years and as treasurer for one. In a 1998 award ceremony, the SIGCAT Foundation and the CD-Info Company acknowledged Butler's pioneering contributions to the development of the CD-ROM publishing industry.

She's been listed in Who's Who in the West since 1978 and Who's Who of American Women since 1975. ...more

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	Seasons of Our Lives - Spring: Stories from WomensMemoirs.com by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (editor), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phyllis Mattson (Contributor) 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Our Lives - Summer: Award-Winning Stories from WomensMemoirs.com by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather A.A. Menzies (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing Alchemy: How to Write Fast and Deep by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Our Lives - Autumn: Stories from WomensMemoirs.com by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (editor), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sara Etgen-Baker (Contributor) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Our Lives: Fork in the Road (Tales of Our Lives #1) by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maureen C. Berry (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sherrey Meyer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Our Lives: Reflection Pond (Tales of Our Lives, #2) by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Katie M. Reid (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Diana M. Amadeo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Our Lives - Winter: Award-Winning Stories from WomensMemoirs.com by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sallie Moffitt (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and the Mass Media: Sourcebook for Research and Action by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author), William J. Paisley liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1980 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Our Lives: Summer by Matilda Butler (Goodreads Author), Kendra Bonnett (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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