Guest speaker at BLPG April 21 - Rosemary Sayer

Rosemary Sayer

Rosemary Sayer has generously agreed to attend as guest speaker at the next meeting of the Book Length Project Group. We met a few days ago for a coffee and chat, and it was a delight to meet a fellow writer with the passion that we all share for this particular art form. Rosemary's discussion will focus on ways in which authors can present themselves to enable their work to have the best chance of success, and promises to be informal, interactive and allow plenty of time to get to know Rosemary a little better and to ask questions. She is a lovely, approachable person (notwithstanding the impressive Bio that follows!) and the session promises to be a real treat.

 

Rosemary Sayer - BIO

Rosemary Sayer is an experienced international business communications consultant and author.

Rosemary has written two biographies - The CEO, the Chairman and the Board about the former Chairman and CEO of Wesfarmers Limited, Trevor Eastwood, and The Man who Turned the Lights On about Asian entrepreneur, Sir Gordon Wu, the Chairman of Hopewell Holdings. This book was subsequently translated into Chinese. Rosemary is currently working on her third book whilst consulting in the mining and art sectors.

She has held senior executive positions in Australia and Asia for Wesfarmers Limited, Lion Nathan and Standard Chartered Bank where she managed all corporate communications and investor relations in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Rosemary is passionate about the promotion of literature and the importance of reading.  She served as a director of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival for four years and has served as a director of writingWA, the peak body for writing, publishing and associated activities, in Western Australia for over three years. 

She began her career as a journalist and worked in both newspapers and radio which gave her broad media experience.  Rosemary currently writes a regular business column for the West Australian newspaper and lectures at Curtin University in professional writing.