New Online Writing Class: Edit For Success 2026!

 

Hone Your Craft & Edit For Success 2026!

Palm Springs Writers Guild

Presenter: Ariella Moon

January 16, 2026

Zoom 1:00-3:00 Pacific Time

 

Start the new year with a fresh polish to your work-in progress or finished manuscript. In this interactive online lab, award-winning author Ariella Moon will show you how to scrutinize your manuscript through an editor’s eyes. We will review macro and micro edits that will help you identify common problems including structure, head-hopping, point of view, flat or AWOL characters, weak verbs, and much more, including:

• ·      Impactful story, scene, and sentence structure.

• ·      Word choices, including weak verbs.

• ·      Sensory descriptors to draw in readers.

• ·      Relatable/intriguing protagonists and their GMC. 

•     Creating a good balance between narrative and dialogue.

•     Meeting your genre’s needs and your readers’ expectations.

Learn more at Palm Springs Writers Guild

About Ariella Moon

When not immersed in her fictional worlds of medieval Scotland, Fairy, or contemporary high schools, award-winning author Ariella Moon presents writing workshops, and leads local and international seminars and rituals on healing, Earth Magic, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. She lives a nearly normal life doting on her extraordinary family, two shamelessly spoiled dogs, and a media-shy dragon.

Discover Ariella's medieval Two Realms fantasy series and her contemporary Teen Wytche Saga novels at online book retailers and at www.ariellamoon.com.

Kindle Ebook Sale Ends Today!

There is still time to get this sweet Halloween Romance

kindle ebook for free!

(But today is the last day.) 

"Spell Check is a great story for the young adult or the young at heart. I enjoyed the vicarious experience of falling in love, dealing with secrets, and working out best friend issues." 

~Long and Short Reviews 

 

"Ariella Moon has written a beautiful book about what it means to be a teen." 5 stars Amazon review

Halloween looms and so does the anniversary of Evie O'Reilly’s father’s death. She can hide from bullies, but she can’t escape her guilt over her dad's demise.

Evie needs to pull herself together. Her best friend is about to cast a binding love spell on Jordan, Evie’s secret crush. Despite a falling out, Evie never forgot Jordan. Now they are lab partners and the chemistry between them definitely sparks. But Evie's friend possesses a brimstone-hissing spell book and plans to cast the spell by Halloween.

 

The clock is ticking. Can Evie get her mojo back in time to check this spell? 

AMAZON 

Read The Teen Wytche Saga for free with

SPELL CHECK is also available for purchase in paperback and audiobook.

Happy reading!

~Ariella Moon

The Solstice Secret is Live, Plus A Free First-in-the-Series E-Book!

 I am super stoked to announce 

THE SOLSTICE SECRET is now available on Kindle!

THE SOLSTICE SECRET

Cover Reveal Day!

I am so excited to reveal the title and cover for my next book,

 The Solstice Secret!

 

Against rich medieval backdrops, The Two Realms Trilogy’s spell-binding finale promises a thrilling romance, shifters—and a hidden heir!

 You can see the cover reveal video on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/authorariellamoon/

Stay tuned for more, including The Solstice Secret Release Date.

 

Meanwhile, you can read the first books in the Two Realms Trilogy for free with Kindle Unlimited.

 Two Realms Trilogy 

I hope the weather is glorious where you. Happy reading!

 

Ariella

New Online Writing Lab: Guide to Launching Your Next Book

Zoom Online Class

Friday, May 16, 2025

1:00 - 3:00 Pacific time

 

 

To learn more and register, https://palmspringswritersguild.org/event-6010777

It can be difficult to think of your recently finished book as a product and yourself as a marketer. But indie, hybrid, and many traditionally published authors must make that shift in order to have a successful book launch. Whether your goals are to garner enviable sales and multiple reviews, attract new readers, or all of the aforementioned and more, you need to plan a book launch. In this presentation, Ariella Moon will guide authors through pre-launch, launch, and post-launch marketing and promotion.

REGISTER

 

Beltane: Weaving a Celtic Fire Festival Into a Medieval Fantasy Novel

How do you incorporate a fire and fertility festival into a Young Adult medieval fantasy novel?

Very carefully.

Photo by Social History Archive on Unsplash
Part of a set of glass lantern slides of May Queen images believed to be from the early 1900s,
possibly in the Cheshire area.

In ancient times, Beltane festivals celebrated the Celtic sun god, Belenus, and heralded the start of the Celtic summer and growing season. Beltane symbols include the maypole, Green Man, May Queen, bonfires, May wreaths, and The Lovers tarot card. 

In The Beltane Escape, Book One in The Two Realms Trilogy, Beltane acts as a ticking clock. A spell cast forward to medieval Scotland strikes Lady Fenella and leaves her stolen, betrothed, and lured back centuries into Fairy. By Beltane, nine days hence, she must find her cousin in a dangerous world of magic, unshackle herself from a sorceress, and return through time before her kidnapper destroys all she holds dear.

The heart-pounding energy often associated with Beltane sexuality, is transformed in The Beltane Escape, into pulse-pounding suspense as time runs out for Fenella. She smells the nervous cattle about to be driven between balefires; hears the pipers; and sees villagers waving cowslip wands attached to peeled willow wands.

The one element that eludes her - a means to escape.

Amazon

In anticipation of the upcoming release of the epic conclusion to The Two Realms Trilogy, The Beltane Escape, The Amber Elixir (A Two Realms novella), and The Viking Mist can be read for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. Ebook and print versions are available for purchase.

Happy Beltane and May Day!

 

~Ariella Moon

 

 

New Online Writing Lab: Unleash the Poet Within

 

“Unleashing the Poet Within: The Distillation Process”

Presenter: Susan Detlefsen, PhD, 

April 18, 2025    1:00 pm  - 3:00 pm Pacific Time

A Palm Springs Writers Guild

Zoom Online Writing Class

Learn more here